Flag of Uruguay
E349747
The Flag of Uruguay is a national banner featuring nine horizontal white and blue stripes with a white canton bearing a golden Sun of May, symbolizing the country's independence and heritage.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Uruguay canonical | 8 |
| Uruguayan flag of the Treinta y Tres | 1 |
| Uruguayan presidential standard | 1 |
| flag of Uruguay | 1 |
| national flag of Uruguay | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3337955 — 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: Flag of Uruguay Context triple: [Artigas Base, countryFlag, Flag of Uruguay]
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A.
Argentine flag
The Argentine flag is the national tricolor of Argentina, featuring light blue and white horizontal bands often with a golden Sun of May at its center, and is a key symbol of the country's independence and identity.
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B.
Chilean flag
The Chilean flag is the national flag of Chile, featuring a white and red horizontal bicolor with a blue canton bearing a single white star, and is a central emblem of Chilean identity and patriotism.
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C.
Montserrat flag
The Montserrat flag is a Blue Ensign featuring the Union Jack and the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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D.
Flag of Panama
The Flag of Panama is a national flag featuring a quartered design of white, red, and blue fields with two stars, symbolizing the country's political parties and its role as a bridge between oceans and continents.
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E.
Flag of the Dominican Republic
The Flag of the Dominican Republic is a national flag featuring a centered white cross dividing blue and red quarters, with the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing its heritage, faith, and independence.
- 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: Flag of Uruguay Target entity description: The Flag of Uruguay is a national banner featuring nine horizontal white and blue stripes with a white canton bearing a golden Sun of May, symbolizing the country's independence and heritage.
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A.
Argentine flag
The Argentine flag is the national tricolor of Argentina, featuring light blue and white horizontal bands often with a golden Sun of May at its center, and is a key symbol of the country's independence and identity.
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B.
Chilean flag
The Chilean flag is the national flag of Chile, featuring a white and red horizontal bicolor with a blue canton bearing a single white star, and is a central emblem of Chilean identity and patriotism.
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C.
Montserrat flag
The Montserrat flag is a Blue Ensign featuring the Union Jack and the island’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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D.
Flag of Panama
The Flag of Panama is a national flag featuring a quartered design of white, red, and blue fields with two stars, symbolizing the country's political parties and its role as a bridge between oceans and continents.
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E.
Flag of the Dominican Republic
The Flag of the Dominican Republic is a national flag featuring a centered white cross dividing blue and red quarters, with the country’s coat of arms at the center, symbolizing its heritage, faith, and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a South American country
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1830-07-11 ⓘ |
| blueRepresents | sky ⓘ |
| blueStripesCount | 4 ⓘ |
| cantonPosition | upper hoist-side corner ⓘ |
| category |
Flags introduced in 1830
ⓘ
National symbols of Uruguay ⓘ |
| continentOfCountry | South America ⓘ |
| country | Uruguay ⓘ |
| designedBy | Joaquín Suárez ⓘ |
| ensignType |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| features | Sun of May ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| hasCanton | white canton ⓘ |
| hasDesign | nine horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | Sun of May with human face ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Flag of Argentina
ⓘ
linked to:
Argentine flag
|
| languageOfOfficialName | Spanish ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Uruguayan law on national symbols ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 9 ⓘ |
| officialNameInSpanish | Pabellón Nacional ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| represents | Uruguayan nation ⓘ |
| status | one of the three official flags of Uruguay ⓘ |
| stripeOrientation | horizontal ⓘ |
| sunRaysCount | 16 ⓘ |
| sunRayType | alternating straight and wavy rays ⓘ |
| sunRepresents |
emergence of a new nation
ⓘ
freedom ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
independence of Uruguay
ⓘ
national heritage of Uruguay ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Uruguay
ⓘ
Uruguayan armed forces ⓘ
linked to:
Armed Forces of Uruguay
Uruguayan civil population ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Uruguayan ships
ⓘ
official ceremonies in Uruguay ⓘ public buildings in Uruguay ⓘ |
| usesColors |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ white ⓘ |
| whiteRepresents | peace ⓘ |
| whiteStripesCount | 5 ⓘ |
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: Flag of Uruguay Description of subject: The Flag of Uruguay is a national banner featuring nine horizontal white and blue stripes with a white canton bearing a golden Sun of May, symbolizing the country's independence and heritage.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Uruguay
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linked to: Flag of Uruguay