Ikurriña
E159074
Ikurriña is the distinctive red, green, and white flag that symbolizes the Basque people and their homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ikurriña canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1376821 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ikurriña Context triple: [Basque Country, hasFlag, Ikurriña]
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A.
Itzaʼ
Itzaʼ is a critically endangered Mayan language historically spoken by the Itza people around Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.
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B.
Ibora
Ibora was an ancient town in Pontus (in modern-day Turkey) known as the birthplace of the influential Christian monk and theologian Evagrius Ponticus.
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C.
Azaña
Azaña is the surname of Manuel Azaña, a prominent Spanish politician and writer who served as President of the Second Spanish Republic.
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D.
Ozurgeti
Ozurgeti is a city in western Georgia that serves as the administrative and cultural center of the Guria region.
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E.
Getaria
Getaria is a coastal town in Spain’s Basque Country, known as the birthplace of explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano and for its fishing heritage and txakoli wine.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ikurriña Target entity description: Ikurriña is the distinctive red, green, and white flag that symbolizes the Basque people and their homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.
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A.
Itzaʼ
Itzaʼ is a critically endangered Mayan language historically spoken by the Itza people around Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.
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B.
Ibora
Ibora was an ancient town in Pontus (in modern-day Turkey) known as the birthplace of the influential Christian monk and theologian Evagrius Ponticus.
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C.
Azaña
Azaña is the surname of Manuel Azaña, a prominent Spanish politician and writer who served as President of the Second Spanish Republic.
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D.
Ozurgeti
Ozurgeti is a city in western Georgia that serves as the administrative and cultural center of the Guria region.
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E.
Getaria
Getaria is a coastal town in Spain’s Basque Country, known as the birthplace of explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano and for its fishing heritage and txakoli wine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
national symbol ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory |
Basque Country
ⓘ
Northern Basque Country ⓘ |
| bannedDuring | Francoist Spain ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Spain ⓘ |
| creator |
Luis Arana
ⓘ
Sabino Arana ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
emblem of Basque identity
ⓘ
symbol of Basque autonomy movement ⓘ |
| etymology | Basque word for flag ⓘ |
| greenRepresents | Guernica oak ⓘ |
| hasBasqueName | Ikurriña ⓘ |
| hasDesign | red field with green saltire and white cross ⓘ |
| hasSpanishName | Ikurriña ⓘ |
| inception | 1894 ⓘ |
| ISO3166Territory | ES-PV ⓘ |
| languageOfName |
Basque
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| laterUse | flag of all Basque territories ⓘ |
| legalized | 1977 ⓘ |
| officialAdoption | 1979 ⓘ |
| officialIn |
Basque Autonomous Community
ⓘ
linked to:
Basque Country
|
| officialStatus | official flag of the Basque Autonomous Community ⓘ |
| originalUse | flag of the Biscayan branch of the Basque Nationalist Party ⓘ |
| partOf | symbols of the Basque Country ⓘ |
| politicalAssociation |
Basque autonomy
ⓘ
Basque nationalism ⓘ |
| redRepresents | Biscay ⓘ |
| religiousSymbolism | white cross associated with Christianity ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | horizontal ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Basque Country
ⓘ
Basque nationalism ⓘ Basque people ⓘ
linked to:
Basques
|
| usedBy |
Autonomous Community of the Basque Country
ⓘ
linked to:
Basque Country
Basque Government ⓘ Basque diaspora ⓘ
linked to:
Basque Mexicans
|
| usedInRegion |
northern Spain
ⓘ
southwestern France ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Basque Government institutions
ⓘ
public buildings in the Basque Autonomous Community ⓘ |
| usesShape | rectangular flag ⓘ |
| whiteRepresents | God and law ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ikurriña Description of subject: Ikurriña is the distinctive red, green, and white flag that symbolizes the Basque people and their homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.