Mexican flag
E2695
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Mexico | 9 |
| Mexican flag canonical | 6 |
| flag of Mexico | 4 |
| Bandera de México | 1 |
| Flag of Mexico (1823–1864) | 1 |
| Flag of the Three Guarantees | 1 |
| Flags of Mexico | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17506 — 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: Mexican flag Context triple: [Mexico, nationalSymbol, Mexican flag]
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Flag of the President of the United States
The Flag of the President of the United States is the official standard displaying the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue field, used to represent the office and presence of the U.S. president.
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E.
Union Flag
The Union Flag, commonly known as the Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom, combining the crosses of England, Scotland, and (historically) Ireland into a single design.
- 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: Mexican flag Target entity description: The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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A.
Puerto Rican flag
The Puerto Rican flag is a red, white, and blue banner featuring five horizontal stripes and a single white star within a blue triangle, symbolizing the island’s identity and political history.
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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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D.
Flag of the President of the United States
The Flag of the President of the United States is the official standard displaying the presidential coat of arms on a dark blue field, used to represent the office and presence of the U.S. president.
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E.
Union Flag
The Union Flag, commonly known as the Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom, combining the crosses of England, Scotland, and (historically) Ireland into a single design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a sovereign state
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1968-09-16 ⓘ |
| celebratedOn | Día de la Bandera ⓘ |
| centralEmblem |
eagle devouring a snake
ⓘ
eagle on a prickly pear cactus on a rock in a lake ⓘ eagle perched on a cactus ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| currentDesignInForceSince | 1968 ⓘ |
| designBasedOn |
Flag of the Three Guarantees
ⓘ
linked to:
Mexican flag
|
| featuresAnimal |
golden eagle
ⓘ
rattlesnake ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
laurel branch
ⓘ
oak branch ⓘ |
| featuresPlant | prickly pear cactus ⓘ |
| firstAdoptedAsTricolor | 1821 ⓘ |
| flagDay | February 24 ⓘ |
| greenStripeMeaning |
hope
ⓘ
independence ⓘ |
| hasCoatOfArms |
Coat of arms of Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Mexican national coat of arms
|
| hasStripeOrientation | vertical ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
civil flag of Mexico
ⓘ
naval ensign of Mexico ⓘ presidential standard of Mexico ⓘ |
| officialName |
Bandera de México
ⓘ
linked to:
Mexican flag
|
| placedAt | center of the white stripe ⓘ |
| proportion | 4:7 ⓘ |
| redStripeMeaning |
the blood of national heroes
ⓘ
union between Europeans and Americans (historical) ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Law on the National Arms, Flag, and Anthem of Mexico ⓘ |
| sideRatio | height 4 to width 7 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Aztec heritage
ⓘ
Mexican heritage ⓘ Mexican independence ⓘ Mexican national identity ⓘ Mexican patriotism ⓘ Mexican sovereignty ⓘ Tenochtitlan founding legend ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil authorities
ⓘ
military ⓘ state authorities ⓘ |
| usedOn |
land
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| usesDesign | vertical tricolor ⓘ |
| whiteStripeMeaning |
purity
ⓘ
unity ⓘ |
| writingSystemOnFlag | none ⓘ |
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: Mexican flag Description of subject: The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mexican flag
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linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
subject linked to:
Mexico (indirectly via Four Corners region with New Mexico)
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag
linked to: Mexican flag