Flag of Nazi Germany
E6449
The Flag of Nazi Germany was the red banner featuring a white circle with a black swastika at its center, symbolizing the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Nazi Germany canonical | 1 |
| Flags of Nazi Germany | 1 |
| Naval ensign of Nazi Germany | 1 |
| Wehrmacht eagle and swastika | 1 |
| swastika flag of Nazi Germany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T74506 — 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 Nazi Germany Context triple: [Nazi Germany, flag, Flag of Nazi Germany]
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A.
NATO flag
The NATO flag is the official emblem of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, featuring a white compass rose on a dark blue field to symbolize unity and collective defense among member states.
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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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D.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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E.
Norwegian flag
The Norwegian flag is the national flag of Norway, featuring a blue cross outlined in white on a red field, and serves as a prominent symbol of Norwegian identity and heritage worldwide.
- 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 Nazi Germany Target entity description: The Flag of Nazi Germany was the red banner featuring a white circle with a black swastika at its center, symbolizing the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.
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A.
NATO flag
The NATO flag is the official emblem of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, featuring a white compass rose on a dark blue field to symbolize unity and collective defense among member states.
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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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D.
Mexican flag
The Mexican flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and red featuring a national coat of arms with an eagle devouring a snake atop a cactus, symbolizing the country’s heritage and identity.
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E.
Norwegian flag
The Norwegian flag is the national flag of Norway, featuring a blue cross outlined in white on a red field, and serves as a prominent symbol of Norwegian identity and heritage worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1935 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Adolf Hitler
ⓘ
Holocaust ⓘ National Socialist German Workers Party ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi Party
Nazism ⓘ genocide ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| designElement |
black swastika
ⓘ
white disc ⓘ |
| graphicLayout | red field with centered white circle and black swastika ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Interwar period
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| ideology |
National Socialism
ⓘ
linked to:
Nazism
|
| inUseFrom | 1933 ⓘ |
| inUseUntil | 1945 ⓘ |
| legalStatusInGermany | display restricted under criminal law ⓘ |
| notableFor | use as symbol of hate and extremism ⓘ |
| orientationOfSwastika | 45 degrees (tilted) ⓘ |
| proportion | 3:5 ⓘ |
| replaced | Flag of the Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Flag of Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of the Weimar Republic
|
| represents |
German Reich (1933–1945)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi Germany
Nazi regime ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi Germany
|
| status | banned symbol in several countries ⓘ |
| symbol | swastika ⓘ |
| type |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Nazi Germany
ⓘ
Third Reich ⓘ |
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 Nazi Germany Description of subject: The Flag of Nazi Germany was the red banner featuring a white circle with a black swastika at its center, symbolizing the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
OKW
linked to: Flag of Nazi Germany
linked to: Flag of Nazi Germany
linked to: Flag of Nazi Germany
linked to: Flag of Nazi Germany