flag of Egypt
E145830
The flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black featuring the golden Eagle of Saladin at its center, symbolizing the nation’s modern identity and Arab heritage.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Egypt canonical | 2 |
| Egyptian flag | 1 |
| Flag of Egypt | 1 |
| Flag of the United Arab Republic | 1 |
| flag of Egypt (1882–1922) | 1 |
| flag of the United Arab Republic | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1275751 — 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 Egypt Context triple: [coat of arms of Egypt, shieldRepresents, flag of Egypt]
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A.
Flag of Eritrea
The Flag of Eritrea is a distinctive tricolour of green, red, and blue with a gold olive wreath and branch emblem, symbolizing the nation’s struggle for independence, agricultural richness, and aspiration for peace.
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B.
Flag of Ghana
The Flag of Ghana is a horizontal tricolour of red, gold, and green with a black five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing the country's struggle for independence, mineral wealth, rich forests, and African freedom.
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C.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for independence.
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D.
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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E.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
- 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 Egypt Target entity description: The flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black featuring the golden Eagle of Saladin at its center, symbolizing the nation’s modern identity and Arab heritage.
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A.
Flag of Eritrea
The Flag of Eritrea is a distinctive tricolour of green, red, and blue with a gold olive wreath and branch emblem, symbolizing the nation’s struggle for independence, agricultural richness, and aspiration for peace.
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B.
Flag of Ghana
The Flag of Ghana is a horizontal tricolour of red, gold, and green with a black five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing the country's struggle for independence, mineral wealth, rich forests, and African freedom.
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C.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for independence.
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D.
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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E.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1984-10-04 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Arab Liberation colors tradition ⓘ |
| blackStripeSymbolism | end of oppression ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Egypt ⓘ |
| centralEmblem | Eagle of Saladin ⓘ |
| colorSetName | Pan-Arab colors ⓘ |
| containsText | Allahu Akbar (on some historical variants) ⓘ |
| country | Egypt ⓘ |
| designType | horizontal tricolor ⓘ |
| emblemColor | gold ⓘ |
| emblemHolds | scroll with the official name of the state in Arabic ⓘ |
| emblemName | Eagle of Saladin ⓘ |
| emblemOrientation | facing hoist ⓘ |
| emblemPosition | center of white stripe ⓘ |
| emblemType | heraldic eagle ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
naval ensign of Egypt
ⓘ
presidential standard of Egypt ⓘ |
| inscriptionOnScroll |
Republic of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
جمهورية مصر العربية
|
| inspiredBy |
Egyptian revolution of 1952
ⓘ
surface form:
Egyptian Revolution of 1952
|
| introducedAfter | flag of the United Arab Republic ⓘ |
| isDepictedOn |
Egyptian embassies abroad
ⓘ
Egyptian government buildings ⓘ |
| legalStatus | defined by Egyptian flag law ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| redStripeSymbolism | struggle against oppression ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Egyptian law ⓘ |
| represents |
Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab Republic of Egypt
|
| scriptOnScroll | Arabic ⓘ |
| sharesColorsWith |
Iraqi flag
ⓘ
surface form:
flag of Iraq
Flag of Syria ⓘ
surface form:
flag of Syria
flag of Yemen ⓘ |
| sideRatio | length greater than height ⓘ |
| stripeOrderTopToBottom | red-white-black ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Arab heritage
ⓘ
modern Egyptian identity ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Egyptian Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Armed Forces of Egypt
Egyptian government ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Egypt
|
| usedOn | official documents of Egypt ⓘ |
| usesColor |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| whiteStripeSymbolism | peace and a bright future ⓘ |
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 Egypt Description of subject: The flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black featuring the golden Eagle of Saladin at its center, symbolizing the nation’s modern identity and Arab heritage.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
flag of the United Arab Republic
this entity surface form:
Egyptian flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of Egypt
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United Arab Republic
this entity surface form:
flag of Egypt (1882–1922)