Kanak flag
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The Kanak flag is the emblematic banner of the indigenous Kanak people of New Caledonia, symbolizing their identity, land, and struggle for self-determination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kanak flag canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9436707 — 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: Kanak flag Context triple: [Kanak people, culturalSymbol, Kanak flag]
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A.
Flag of Nepal
The Flag of Nepal is the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, composed of two stacked crimson-red pennons with blue borders featuring a white moon and sun.
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B.
Tino Rangatiratanga flag
The Tino Rangatiratanga flag is a prominent Māori sovereignty symbol representing Indigenous rights, identity, and self-determination in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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C.
Flag of Japan
The Flag of Japan is a simple national flag featuring a red circle symbolizing the sun centered on a white field, representing the country's nickname "Land of the Rising Sun."
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D.
Singapore national flag
The Singapore national flag is a red and white bicolour featuring a white crescent moon and five stars in a circle, symbolizing the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice, and equality.
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E.
Cascadian flag
The Cascadian flag is a regional banner symbolizing the bioregion of Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest, featuring a Douglas fir against horizontal blue, white, and green stripes to represent the area's forests, mountains, and waters.
- 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: Kanak flag Target entity description: The Kanak flag is the emblematic banner of the indigenous Kanak people of New Caledonia, symbolizing their identity, land, and struggle for self-determination.
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A.
Flag of Nepal
The Flag of Nepal is the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, composed of two stacked crimson-red pennons with blue borders featuring a white moon and sun.
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B.
Tino Rangatiratanga flag
The Tino Rangatiratanga flag is a prominent Māori sovereignty symbol representing Indigenous rights, identity, and self-determination in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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C.
Flag of Japan
The Flag of Japan is a simple national flag featuring a red circle symbolizing the sun centered on a white field, representing the country's nickname "Land of the Rising Sun."
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D.
Singapore national flag
The Singapore national flag is a red and white bicolour featuring a white crescent moon and five stars in a circle, symbolizing the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice, and equality.
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E.
Cascadian flag
The Cascadian flag is a regional banner symbolizing the bioregion of Cascadia in the Pacific Northwest, featuring a Douglas fir against horizontal blue, white, and green stripes to represent the area's forests, mountains, and waters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ethnic flag
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flag ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | FLNKS ⓘ |
| adoptionYearByFLNKS | 1984 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| color |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| continent | Oceania ⓘ |
| controversy |
debate over dual flags in New Caledonia
ⓘ
disagreement about single common flag for New Caledonia ⓘ |
| coOfficialWith | flag of France ⓘ |
| country | New Caledonia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Kanak people ⓘ |
| feature |
flèche faîtière
ⓘ
horizontal tricolour of blue red and green ⓘ traditional Kanak roof-spire symbol ⓘ yellow disc ⓘ |
| officialRecognitionYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
French Republic
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Government of New Caledonia ⓘ |
| region | Melanesia ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
New Caledonia independence referendums
ⓘ
linked to:
New Caledonia self-determination referendums
|
| scriptDirection | leftToRight ⓘ |
| status | co-official flag of New Caledonia ⓘ |
| symbolismOfColorBlue |
sea
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sky ⓘ |
| symbolismOfColorGreen |
Kanak earth
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land of New Caledonia ⓘ |
| symbolismOfColorRed |
blood of the Kanak people
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socialism ⓘ |
| symbolismOfFlècheFaîtière |
Kanak chiefdom
ⓘ
Kanak tradition ⓘ
linked to:
Kanak culture
connection between the living and the ancestors ⓘ |
| symbolismOfYellowDisc | sun ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Kanak culture
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Kanak identity ⓘ Kanak land ⓘ Kanak nationalism ⓘ Kanak struggle for self-determination ⓘ |
| usedBy |
FLNKS
ⓘ
Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste ⓘ Kanak independence movement ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Kanak cultural events
ⓘ
independence demonstrations ⓘ political rallies in New Caledonia ⓘ |
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: Kanak flag Description of subject: The Kanak flag is the emblematic banner of the indigenous Kanak people of New Caledonia, symbolizing their identity, land, and struggle for self-determination.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.