Flag of Wales
E61317
The Flag of Wales is a national flag featuring a red dragon passant on a green and white field, symbolizing Welsh identity and heritage.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Wales canonical | 11 |
| Welsh flag | 2 |
| flag of Wales | 2 |
| Royal Banner of Wales | 1 |
| Welsh Dragon flag | 1 |
| Y Ddraig Goch flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T490817 — 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 Wales Context triple: [Wales, flag, Flag of Wales]
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A.
Flag of England
The Flag of England is a simple red cross on a white field, known as the St George's Cross and historically associated with Saint George, the patron saint of England.
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B.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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C.
Saltire
The Saltire is the national flag of Scotland, featuring a white diagonal cross of Saint Andrew on a blue field and recognized as one of the oldest flags in continuous use.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
- 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 Wales Target entity description: The Flag of Wales is a national flag featuring a red dragon passant on a green and white field, symbolizing Welsh identity and heritage.
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A.
Flag of England
The Flag of England is a simple red cross on a white field, known as the St George's Cross and historically associated with Saint George, the patron saint of England.
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B.
Flag of the Isle of Man
The Flag of the Isle of Man features a red field charged with a triskelion of three armored legs with golden spurs, an ancient symbol closely associated with the island’s identity and heritage.
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C.
Saltire
The Saltire is the national flag of Scotland, featuring a white diagonal cross of Saint Andrew on a blue field and recognized as one of the oldest flags in continuous use.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Bermuda
The Flag of Bermuda is a British Red Ensign defaced with the territory’s coat of arms, symbolizing its status as a British Overseas Territory and its maritime heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag of a constituent country of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1959 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Red Dragon
ⓘ
Y Ddraig Goch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arthurian legend
ⓘ
Celtic mythology ⓘ Saint David ⓘ |
| backgroundLowerColor | green ⓘ |
| backgroundUpperColor | white ⓘ |
| category |
Flags introduced in 1959
ⓘ
Flags with animals ⓘ National flags ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Wales ⓘ |
| depicts | red dragon passant ⓘ |
| designElement |
green field
ⓘ
red dragon ⓘ white field ⓘ |
| dragonColor | red ⓘ |
| dragonOrientation | facing hoist ⓘ |
| dragonPosition | passant ⓘ |
| fieldDivision | green and white horizontal bicolor ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | traditional Welsh dragon emblem ⓘ |
| ISO3166TerritoryRepresented | GB-WLS ⓘ |
| legalRecognition | recognized by the UK government ⓘ |
| name | Flag of Wales ⓘ |
| officialStatus | official national flag of Wales ⓘ |
| partOf |
national symbols of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
symbols of Wales ⓘ |
| predecessor | various medieval Welsh dragon banners ⓘ |
| proportion | 3:5 ⓘ |
| scriptOnFlag | none ⓘ |
| statusInUnionJack | not individually represented in the Union Flag ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Cymru
ⓘ
linked to:
Wales
Wales ⓘ Welsh heritage ⓘ Welsh identity ⓘ Welsh nationalism ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Senedd Cymru
ⓘ
linked to:
Senedd
Welsh Government ⓘ people of Wales ⓘ |
| usedOn |
cultural festivals in Wales
ⓘ
public buildings in Wales ⓘ sporting events involving Welsh teams ⓘ |
| usedSince | medieval period in various forms ⓘ |
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 Wales Description of subject: The Flag of Wales is a national flag featuring a red dragon passant on a green and white field, symbolizing Welsh identity and heritage.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Wales
linked to: Flag of Wales
subject linked to:
red dragon
linked to: Flag of Wales
linked to: Flag of Wales
subject linked to:
Wales national women’s rugby union team
linked to: Flag of Wales
linked to: Flag of Wales
linked to: Flag of Wales