Flag of Flanders
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The Flag of Flanders is a yellow banner featuring a black lion with red claws and tongue, symbolizing the Flemish Community and region in Belgium.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Flanders canonical | 7 |
| flag of Flanders | 2 |
| Flags of Belgium | 1 |
| Flemish Lion flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T987597 — 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 Flanders Context triple: [Flanders, hasFlag, Flag of Flanders]
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A.
Flag of Friesland
The Flag of Friesland is a distinctive regional banner of the Dutch province of Friesland, featuring blue and white diagonal stripes with red lily-like symbols representing the region’s historical “sea countries.”
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B.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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C.
Flag of Groningen (province)
The Flag of Groningen (province) is a Dutch provincial flag featuring a green cross edged in white over red and blue fields, symbolizing the unity of the city of Groningen with the surrounding Ommelanden.
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D.
Flag of Sweden
The Flag of Sweden is a blue field with a yellow Scandinavian cross, symbolizing the nation’s heritage and used as its primary national emblem.
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E.
Coat of arms of the Netherlands
The Coat of arms of the Netherlands is the national heraldic emblem featuring a crowned lion with a sword and arrows, symbolizing Dutch monarchy, sovereignty, and unity.
- 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 Flanders Target entity description: The Flag of Flanders is a yellow banner featuring a black lion with red claws and tongue, symbolizing the Flemish Community and region in Belgium.
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A.
Flag of Friesland
The Flag of Friesland is a distinctive regional banner of the Dutch province of Friesland, featuring blue and white diagonal stripes with red lily-like symbols representing the region’s historical “sea countries.”
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B.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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C.
Flag of Groningen (province)
The Flag of Groningen (province) is a Dutch provincial flag featuring a green cross edged in white over red and blue fields, symbolizing the unity of the city of Groningen with the surrounding Ommelanden.
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D.
Flag of Sweden
The Flag of Sweden is a blue field with a yellow Scandinavian cross, symbolizing the nation’s heritage and used as its primary national emblem.
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E.
Coat of arms of the Netherlands
The Coat of arms of the Netherlands is the national heraldic emblem featuring a crowned lion with a sword and arrows, symbolizing Dutch monarchy, sovereignty, and unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
regional flag ⓘ symbol of the Flemish Community ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dutch-speaking community of Belgium
ⓘ
linked to:
Flemish Community
Flemish government ⓘ
linked to:
Flemish Government
Flemish nationalism ⓘ
linked to:
Flemish Movement
|
| backgroundColor | yellow ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Belgium
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Flanders
Regional flags ⓘ |
| charge | lion ⓘ |
| clawsColor | red ⓘ |
| colorScheme |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| designElement |
black lion on yellow field
ⓘ
red claws and tongue ⓘ |
| fieldColor | yellow ⓘ |
| hasMottoRelation | Vlaanderen leeft ⓘ |
| heraldicName | Or, a lion rampant armed and langued Gules ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
coat of arms of Flanders
ⓘ
linked to:
Coat of arms of Flanders
|
| isOfficialFlagOf |
Flemish Community
ⓘ
Flemish Region ⓘ |
| ISORegion | BE-VLG ⓘ |
| languageRegion | Dutch-speaking region of Belgium ⓘ |
| lionColor | black ⓘ |
| lionFeaturesColor | red ⓘ |
| orientationOfLion | rampant ⓘ |
| primarySymbol | Flemish lion ⓘ |
| relatedSymbol |
Coat of arms of Flanders
ⓘ
Flag of Belgium ⓘ |
| represents |
Flemish Community
ⓘ
Flemish Region ⓘ |
| status | official ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Flemish culture
ⓘ
Flemish identity ⓘ Flemish people ⓘ |
| tongueColor | red ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Flemish Community
ⓘ
Flemish Region ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Belgium
ⓘ
Flanders ⓘ |
| usedOn |
official documents of the Flemish authorities
ⓘ
public buildings in Flanders ⓘ |
| usedSince | 20th century ⓘ |
| 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: Flag of Flanders Description of subject: The Flag of Flanders is a yellow banner featuring a black lion with red claws and tongue, symbolizing the Flemish Community and region in Belgium.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Flanders
linked to: Flag of Flanders
linked to: Flag of Flanders
linked to: Flag of Flanders