Dutch lion
E159996
The Dutch lion is a heraldic symbol traditionally representing the Netherlands and its historical provinces, often depicted as a rampant lion on coats of arms and national emblems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dutch lion canonical | 1 |
| Löwen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1391556 — 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: Dutch lion Context triple: [Dutch Bronze Lion, centralMotif, Dutch lion]
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A.
Belgian lion
The Belgian lion is a heraldic symbol representing strength and sovereignty, prominently used as the national emblem of Belgium.
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B.
Flemish lion
The Flemish lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a black lion on a yellow field, historically associated with the Flemish people and the region of Flanders in Belgium.
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C.
Finnish lion
The Finnish lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a crowned lion with a sword, prominently used in Finland’s coat of arms and national insignia.
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D.
Norwegian lion
The Norwegian lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a crowned, golden lion holding an axe, long used as the national coat of arms and emblem of the Norwegian monarchy.
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E.
Leo the Lion
Leo the Lion is the iconic roaring lion featured in the opening logo of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) films.
- 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: Dutch lion Target entity description: The Dutch lion is a heraldic symbol traditionally representing the Netherlands and its historical provinces, often depicted as a rampant lion on coats of arms and national emblems.
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A.
Belgian lion
The Belgian lion is a heraldic symbol representing strength and sovereignty, prominently used as the national emblem of Belgium.
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B.
Flemish lion
The Flemish lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a black lion on a yellow field, historically associated with the Flemish people and the region of Flanders in Belgium.
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C.
Finnish lion
The Finnish lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a crowned lion with a sword, prominently used in Finland’s coat of arms and national insignia.
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D.
Norwegian lion
The Norwegian lion is a heraldic symbol featuring a crowned, golden lion holding an axe, long used as the national coat of arms and emblem of the Norwegian monarchy.
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E.
Leo the Lion
Leo the Lion is the iconic roaring lion featured in the opening logo of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
heraldic symbol
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national symbol ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Dutch euro coins (national side, coat of arms variant)
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Dutch military insignia ⓘ Dutch passports (coat of arms) ⓘ official Dutch government documents (coat of arms) ⓘ |
| arrowsSymbolize | unity of the seven provinces ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dutch Republic
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Dutch monarchy ⓘ House of Orange-Nassau ⓘ Kingdom of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| colorContrast | gold lion on blue shield in national arms ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
heraldry
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vexillology ⓘ |
| heraldicAttitude | rampant ⓘ |
| historicalUse |
arms of the Dutch Republic
ⓘ
Seventeen Provinces ⓘ
surface form:
arms of the Seventeen Provinces
arms of the States General of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| holdsInDexterPaw | sword in national arms ⓘ |
| holdsInSinisterPaw | bundle of seven arrows in national arms ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedWith |
bundle of arrows
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sword ⓘ |
| relatedSymbol |
Belgian lion
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Flemish lion ⓘ Luxembourg lion ⓘ |
| represents |
Dutch people
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Netherlands ⓘ historical provinces of the Low Countries ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
courage
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sovereignty ⓘ strength ⓘ unity of the provinces ⓘ |
| typicalTincture |
azure (blue) field
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or (gold) ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands
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surface form:
Dutch Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces of the Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch armed forces
Dutch embassies and consulates ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Dutch government logos
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Dutch military heraldry ⓘ Dutch national emblems ⓘ Dutch royal family symbols ⓘ Coat of arms of the Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
Greater coat of arms of the Netherlands
Coat of arms of the Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of the Netherlands
Coat of arms of the Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
lesser coat of arms of the Netherlands
municipal coats of arms in the Netherlands ⓘ provincial coats of arms in the Netherlands ⓘ Coat of arms of the Netherlands ⓘ
surface form:
royal coat of arms of the Netherlands
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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: Dutch lion Description of subject: The Dutch lion is a heraldic symbol traditionally representing the Netherlands and its historical provinces, often depicted as a rampant lion on coats of arms and national emblems.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Löwen