Cross of Lorraine

E14020

Christian cross heraldic charge symbol

The Cross of Lorraine is a two-barred Christian cross that became a prominent emblem of French resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Cross of Lorraine canonical	10
Arpitan cross	1
Cross of Lorraine by context and usage	1
Lorraine Cross	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian cross ⓘ heraldic charge ⓘ symbol ⓘ
adoptedAsEmblemBy	Charles de Gaulle ⓘ Free French Forces ⓘ surface form: Free French Air Forces Free French Forces ⓘ surface form: Free French Naval Forces Free French Forces ⓘ surface form: Free French land forces
appearsOn	French Resistance monuments ⓘ French military decorations ⓘ coat of arms of Lorraine ⓘ memorials to Free French Forces ⓘ
associatedWith	Charles de Gaulle ⓘ Free France ⓘ Free France ⓘ surface form: French government-in-exile Joan of Arc ⓘ Lorraine ⓘ surface form: region of Lorraine
contrastedWith	Swastika ⓘ surface form: Nazi swastika
hasAlternativeName	Cross of Lorraine ⓘ surface form: Lorraine Cross double-barred cross ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificanceIn	France ⓘ Lorraine ⓘ
hasLowerBarLength	longer than upper bar ⓘ
hasNumberOfCrossbars	2 ⓘ
hasShape	vertical shaft with two horizontal bars ⓘ
hasUpperBarLength	shorter than lower bar ⓘ
historicalRole	badge of French Resistance during World War II ⓘ emblem of Free French Forces during World War II ⓘ
inspiredDesignOf	various French Resistance badges ⓘ
originatesFrom	Duchy of Lorraine ⓘ
relatedTo	patriarchal cross ⓘ
religiousContext	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholic Church Latin Rite ⓘ surface form: Latin Church
symbolOf	Catholic faith ⓘ Free French Forces ⓘ European resistance movements ⓘ surface form: French Resistance Lorraine ⓘ surface form: Lorraine region liberation of France ⓘ opposition to Nazi Germany ⓘ patriotism in France ⓘ
timeOfProminence	World War II ⓘ
usedAs	insignia on Free French aircraft ⓘ insignia on Free French uniforms ⓘ insignia on Free French warships ⓘ nationalist symbol of France ⓘ
usedIn	Christian symbolism ⓘ coats of arms ⓘ flags ⓘ heraldry ⓘ military insignia ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Cross of Lorraine
Description of subject: The Cross of Lorraine is a two-barred Christian cross that became a prominent emblem of French resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Free French Forces → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

FFL → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

subject surface form: Free French Forces

Cross of Lorraine → hasAlternativeName → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lorraine Cross

Free France → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

Patriarchal cross → isRelatedTo → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

Patriarchal cross → differsFrom → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cross of Lorraine by context and usage

double-barred cross → hasAlternativeName → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

coat of arms of Lorraine → relatedTo → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

Arpitania → hasSymbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arpitan cross

Colombey-les-Deux-Églises → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

FFI → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

subject surface form: French Forces of the Interior

2e DB → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ

Free French government → symbol → Cross of Lorraine ⓘ