Zia sun symbol
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The Zia sun symbol is a Native American sacred emblem of the Zia Pueblo, featuring a circle with four groups of four rays, widely recognized as the central design on the New Mexico state flag.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zia sun symbol canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1587375 — 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: Zia sun symbol Context triple: [New Mexico, hasSymbolOnFlag, Zia sun symbol]
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A.
Surya Majapahit (sun emblem)
Surya Majapahit is a distinctive sun emblem from the Majapahit Empire, featuring a radiant solar disk often combined with Hindu deities and cosmological symbols, and serving as a key icon of Javanese royal and religious identity.
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B.
Swastika
The Swastika is an ancient cross-like symbol with bent arms that represents auspiciousness, good fortune, and cosmic order in Hinduism and several other Eurasian traditions.
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C.
Eye of Providence
The Eye of Providence is a symbol depicting an all-seeing eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light, representing divine watchfulness and guidance.
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D.
Hamsa
Hamsa is a divine swan or goose in Hindu mythology, symbolizing purity and spiritual discernment and serving as the sacred vehicle of the creator god Brahma.
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E.
Seal of the Prophets
Seal of the Prophets is an Islamic title for Muhammad signifying his role as the final prophet in the line of prophetic messengers.
- 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: Zia sun symbol Target entity description: The Zia sun symbol is a Native American sacred emblem of the Zia Pueblo, featuring a circle with four groups of four rays, widely recognized as the central design on the New Mexico state flag.
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A.
Surya Majapahit (sun emblem)
Surya Majapahit is a distinctive sun emblem from the Majapahit Empire, featuring a radiant solar disk often combined with Hindu deities and cosmological symbols, and serving as a key icon of Javanese royal and religious identity.
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B.
Swastika
The Swastika is an ancient cross-like symbol with bent arms that represents auspiciousness, good fortune, and cosmic order in Hinduism and several other Eurasian traditions.
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C.
Eye of Providence
The Eye of Providence is a symbol depicting an all-seeing eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light, representing divine watchfulness and guidance.
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D.
Hamsa
Hamsa is a divine swan or goose in Hindu mythology, symbolizing purity and spiritual discernment and serving as the sacred vehicle of the creator god Brahma.
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E.
Seal of the Prophets
Seal of the Prophets is an Islamic title for Muhammad signifying his role as the final prophet in the line of prophetic messengers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Native American symbol
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cultural symbol ⓘ religious symbol ⓘ symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New Mexico
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New Mexico identity ⓘ Southwestern design ⓘ |
| backgroundColorOnNewMexicoFlag | yellow ⓘ |
| centralElementOf | Flag of New Mexico ⓘ |
| colorOnNewMexicoFlag | red ⓘ |
| culture | Puebloan ⓘ |
| featuredOn | Flag of New Mexico ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
central circle
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four groups of rays ⓘ |
| hasDesignPrinciple |
geometric abstraction
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radial symmetry ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfRayGroups | 4 ⓘ |
| hasRaysPerGroup | 4 ⓘ |
| hasShape | circle with four groups of four rays ⓘ |
| hasTotalRays | 16 ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Pueblo cosmology ⓘ |
| isSacredTo | Zia Pueblo ⓘ |
| originatesFrom |
New Mexico
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southwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern United States
Zia Pueblo ⓘ |
| protectedBy | cultural protocols of Zia Pueblo ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
emblem of New Mexico
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icon of Southwestern United States ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Zia Pueblo spirituality ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
cultural appropriation debates
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intellectual property discussions ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
four cardinal directions
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four periods of each day ⓘ four seasons ⓘ four stages of life ⓘ harmony ⓘ sacred number four ⓘ sun ⓘ wholeness ⓘ |
| usedBy | Zia Pueblo ⓘ |
| usedIn |
architecture
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art ⓘ ceremonial contexts ⓘ crafts ⓘ government insignia of New Mexico ⓘ license plates of New Mexico ⓘ logos ⓘ sports team branding in New Mexico ⓘ |
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: Zia sun symbol Description of subject: The Zia sun symbol is a Native American sacred emblem of the Zia Pueblo, featuring a circle with four groups of four rays, widely recognized as the central design on the New Mexico state flag.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.