Flag of Michigan
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The Flag of Michigan is the U.S. state's blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with an eagle, elk, and moose surrounding a shield and Latin mottos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Michigan canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8873168 — 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 Michigan Context triple: [Michigan, hasFlag, Flag of Michigan]
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A.
Flag of Wisconsin
The Flag of Wisconsin is the official state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing Wisconsin’s history of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and navigation.
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B.
Flag of Maryland
The Flag of Maryland is the distinctive U.S. state flag featuring the heraldic black-and-gold Calvert and red-and-white Crossland family arms in a quartered design.
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C.
Flag of Connecticut
The Flag of Connecticut is the state flag featuring a blue field with a white baroque shield displaying three grapevines and the Latin motto "Qui Transtulit Sustinet."
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D.
Flag of Arizona
The Flag of Arizona is the state flag featuring a copper-colored star symbolizing the state's mining heritage, set against rays of red and yellow and a blue lower half representing the western setting sun and liberty.
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E.
Flag of Delaware
The Flag of Delaware is a blue field featuring the state's coat of arms within a buff-colored diamond, with the date of Delaware's ratification of the U.S. Constitution inscribed below.
- 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 Michigan Target entity description: The Flag of Michigan is the U.S. state's blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with an eagle, elk, and moose surrounding a shield and Latin mottos.
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A.
Flag of Wisconsin
The Flag of Wisconsin is the official state flag featuring the state coat of arms on a blue field, symbolizing Wisconsin’s history of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and navigation.
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B.
Flag of Maryland
The Flag of Maryland is the distinctive U.S. state flag featuring the heraldic black-and-gold Calvert and red-and-white Crossland family arms in a quartered design.
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C.
Flag of Connecticut
The Flag of Connecticut is the state flag featuring a blue field with a white baroque shield displaying three grapevines and the Latin motto "Qui Transtulit Sustinet."
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D.
Flag of Arizona
The Flag of Arizona is the state flag featuring a copper-colored star symbolizing the state's mining heritage, set against rays of red and yellow and a blue lower half representing the western setting sun and liberty.
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E.
Flag of Delaware
The Flag of Delaware is a blue field featuring the state's coat of arms within a buff-colored diamond, with the date of Delaware's ratification of the U.S. Constitution inscribed below.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | state flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1911-08-01 ⓘ |
| adoptionYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | blue ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designBasis | Coat of arms of Michigan ⓘ |
| designElement |
bald eagle above shield
ⓘ
blue field ⓘ elk and moose supporters ⓘ peninsula landscape ⓘ rising sun over water ⓘ scroll with motto E Pluribus Unum ⓘ scroll with motto Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice ⓘ scroll with motto Tuebor ⓘ shield with man holding a gun ⓘ |
| featuresAnimal |
bald eagle
ⓘ
elk ⓘ moose ⓘ |
| featuresMotto |
E Pluribus Unum
ⓘ
linked to:
E pluribus unum (shared national motto)
Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice ⓘ Tuebor ⓘ |
| featuresShield | yes ⓘ |
| fieldColor | azure ⓘ |
| governmentUse | used by the government of Michigan ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Governor of Michigan flag ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Michigan ⓘ |
| languageOfMottos |
English translation used unofficially
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| officialIn | Michigan ⓘ |
| partOf | symbols of Michigan ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier Michigan state flags ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| represents |
State of Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan
|
| sideRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Michigan as a U.S. state
ⓘ
Michigan’s peninsulas (Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice) ⓘ defense and vigilance (Tuebor) ⓘ union of the states (E Pluribus Unum) ⓘ |
| usedOn |
official state events
ⓘ
public buildings in Michigan ⓘ |
| usesCoatOfArms | Coat of arms of Michigan ⓘ |
| usesColor |
blue
ⓘ
brown ⓘ gold ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
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 Michigan Description of subject: The Flag of Michigan is the U.S. state's blue banner featuring the state coat of arms with an eagle, elk, and moose surrounding a shield and Latin mottos.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.