Flag of Manchukuo
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The Flag of Manchukuo was the national flag of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932–1945), featuring a yellow field with four colored stripes symbolizing the region’s major ethnic groups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Manchukuo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T947122 — 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 Manchukuo Context triple: [Manchukuo, flag, Flag of Manchukuo]
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A.
内閣総理大臣旗
内閣総理大臣旗 is the official flag used to represent the Prime Minister of Japan, typically flown on vehicles, vessels, or at locations to signify the Prime Minister’s presence.
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B.
Taegeukgi
Taegeukgi is the national flag of South Korea, featuring a red-and-blue yin-yang symbol and four black trigrams on a white background, symbolizing balance, harmony, and the principles of Eastern philosophy.
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C.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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D.
Crimean Tatar flag
The Crimean Tatar flag is a light blue banner featuring a golden tamga (a traditional heraldic emblem) symbolizing the national identity and heritage of the Crimean Tatar people.
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E.
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.
- 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 Manchukuo Target entity description: The Flag of Manchukuo was the national flag of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932–1945), featuring a yellow field with four colored stripes symbolizing the region’s major ethnic groups.
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A.
内閣総理大臣旗
内閣総理大臣旗 is the official flag used to represent the Prime Minister of Japan, typically flown on vehicles, vessels, or at locations to signify the Prime Minister’s presence.
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B.
Taegeukgi
Taegeukgi is the national flag of South Korea, featuring a red-and-blue yin-yang symbol and four black trigrams on a white background, symbolizing balance, harmony, and the principles of Eastern philosophy.
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C.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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D.
Crimean Tatar flag
The Crimean Tatar flag is a light blue banner featuring a golden tamga (a traditional heraldic emblem) symbolizing the national identity and heritage of the Crimean Tatar people.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| abolished | August 1945 ⓘ |
| adopted | 1932 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kantōgun
ⓘ
Puyi ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | yellow ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Manchukuo ⓘ |
| design | yellow field with four horizontal stripes in the canton ⓘ |
| fieldColor | yellow ⓘ |
| governmentTypeContext | monarchy under Japanese control ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
World War II era
interwar period ⓘ |
| ideologicalAssociation |
Japanese militarism
ⓘ
Pan-Asianism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Five Races Under One Union flag of the Republic of China ⓘ |
| inUseUntil | 1945 ⓘ |
| orientationOfStripes | horizontal ⓘ |
| politicalContext |
Japanese imperialism in East Asia
ⓘ
Japanese puppet state ⓘ |
| region | Manchuria ⓘ |
| religiousSymbolOnFlag | none ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
Flag of the People's Republic of China
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surface form:
Flag of the People’s Republic of China
|
| representsEthnicGroup |
Han Chinese
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ Koreans ⓘ Manchu ⓘ
surface form:
Manchus
Mongol ⓘ
surface form:
Mongols
|
| scriptOnFlag | none ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stripeColors |
black
ⓘ
blue ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| stripePlacement | upper hoist corner ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
ethnic harmony
ⓘ
five races under one union ⓘ multiethnic composition of Manchukuo ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Japan
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surface form:
Empire of Japan
Manchukuo ⓘ |
| usedByRegimeType | collaborationist regime ⓘ |
| usedDuringConflict |
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
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surface form:
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II ⓘ |
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 Manchukuo Description of subject: The Flag of Manchukuo was the national flag of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932–1945), featuring a yellow field with four colored stripes symbolizing the region’s major ethnic groups.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.