Flag of Belgium
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The Flag of Belgium is a vertical tricolor of black, yellow, and red that symbolizes the nation’s identity and is used as its primary national emblem.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Belgium canonical | 4 |
| civil ensign of Belgium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1713223 — 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 Belgium Context triple: [Prime Minister of Belgium, flag, Flag of Belgium]
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A.
Flag of Flanders
The Flag of Flanders is a yellow banner featuring a black lion with red claws and tongue, symbolizing the Flemish Community and region in Belgium.
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B.
Flag of Friesland
The Flag of Friesland is a distinctive regional banner of the Dutch province of Friesland, featuring blue and white diagonal stripes with red lily-like symbols representing the region’s historical “sea countries.”
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C.
Flag of Europe
The Flag of Europe is a blue banner emblazoned with a circle of twelve golden stars, symbolizing unity, solidarity, and harmony among the peoples of Europe.
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D.
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.
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E.
Flag of Sweden
The Flag of Sweden is a blue field with a yellow Scandinavian cross, symbolizing the nation’s heritage and used as its primary national emblem.
- 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 Belgium Target entity description: The Flag of Belgium is a vertical tricolor of black, yellow, and red that symbolizes the nation’s identity and is used as its primary national emblem.
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A.
Flag of Flanders
The Flag of Flanders is a yellow banner featuring a black lion with red claws and tongue, symbolizing the Flemish Community and region in Belgium.
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B.
Flag of Friesland
The Flag of Friesland is a distinctive regional banner of the Dutch province of Friesland, featuring blue and white diagonal stripes with red lily-like symbols representing the region’s historical “sea countries.”
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C.
Flag of Europe
The Flag of Europe is a blue banner emblazoned with a circle of twelve golden stars, symbolizing unity, solidarity, and harmony among the peoples of Europe.
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D.
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.
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E.
Flag of Sweden
The Flag of Sweden is a blue field with a yellow Scandinavian cross, symbolizing the nation’s heritage and used as its primary national emblem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Belgium
|
| adoptedInYear | 1831 ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1831-01-23 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 13:15 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Federal Government of Belgium
ⓘ
surface form:
Belgian government
Belgian monarchy ⓘ Belgium ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Belgium
|
| centerStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| colorOrder | black-yellow-red ⓘ |
| country | Belgium ⓘ |
| design | vertical tricolor ⓘ |
| fileName | Flag of Belgium.svg ⓘ |
| firstUsedInEvent |
Belgian Revolution
ⓘ
surface form:
Belgian Revolution of 1830
|
| hasEmoji | 🇧🇪 ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Flag of Belgium
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
civil ensign of Belgium
naval ensign of Belgium ⓘ royal standard of Belgium ⓘ |
| historicalOrigin |
Belgian Revolution
ⓘ
surface form:
Belgian Revolution of 1830
|
| inspiredBy |
colors of the Duchy of Brabant
ⓘ
flag of France ⓘ |
| isNationalSymbolOf | Belgium ⓘ |
| ISO3166Country | BE ⓘ |
| isSimilarTo |
flag of Germany
ⓘ
flag of Uganda ⓘ |
| leftmostStripeColor | black ⓘ |
| officialLanguageArea | entire Belgium ⓘ |
| orientation | vertical stripes ⓘ |
| proportion | 13:15 ⓘ |
| regulatedBy |
Belgian law
ⓘ
Royal decree ⓘ
surface form:
Belgian royal decrees
|
| rightmostStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 3 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Belgian sovereignty
ⓘ
Belgian unity ⓘ national identity of Belgium ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedIn |
diplomatic ceremonies
ⓘ
international sporting events ⓘ national holidays in Belgium ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Belgian embassies and consulates
ⓘ
Belgian government institutions ⓘ public buildings in Belgium ⓘ |
| usesColor |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| writingDirectionOfStripes | hoist to fly ⓘ |
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 Belgium Description of subject: The Flag of Belgium is a vertical tricolor of black, yellow, and red that symbolizes the nation’s identity and is used as its primary national emblem.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
civil ensign of Belgium