Naval ensign of Sweden
E227979
The Naval ensign of Sweden is the distinctive Swedish maritime flag featuring a triple-tailed (swallow-tailed) blue field with a yellow Nordic cross, used by the Swedish Navy and certain state vessels.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Naval ensign of Sweden canonical | 1 |
| Swedish civil ensign | 1 |
| Swedish war ensign | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2036727 — 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: Naval ensign of Sweden Context triple: [Flag of Sweden, hasVariant, Naval ensign of Sweden]
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A.
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.
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B.
Flag of Åland
The Flag of Åland is a Nordic cross flag featuring a red cross within a yellow cross on a blue field, symbolizing the autonomous Finnish region’s Swedish heritage and maritime identity.
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C.
Flag of Finland
The Flag of Finland is a blue Nordic cross on a white field, symbolizing the country’s lakes and snow and serving as the national flag of the Republic of Finland.
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D.
Flag of the Grand Duchy of Finland
The Flag of the Grand Duchy of Finland was the historical banner used during Finland’s period as an autonomous grand duchy under the Russian Empire, featuring heraldic symbols representing Finnish identity and its status within the empire.
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E.
Norwegian flag
The Norwegian flag is the national flag of Norway, featuring a blue cross outlined in white on a red field, and serves as a prominent symbol of Norwegian identity and heritage worldwide.
- 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: Naval ensign of Sweden Target entity description: The Naval ensign of Sweden is the distinctive Swedish maritime flag featuring a triple-tailed (swallow-tailed) blue field with a yellow Nordic cross, used by the Swedish Navy and certain state vessels.
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A.
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.
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B.
Flag of Åland
The Flag of Åland is a Nordic cross flag featuring a red cross within a yellow cross on a blue field, symbolizing the autonomous Finnish region’s Swedish heritage and maritime identity.
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C.
Flag of Finland
The Flag of Finland is a blue Nordic cross on a white field, symbolizing the country’s lakes and snow and serving as the national flag of the Republic of Finland.
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D.
Flag of the Grand Duchy of Finland
The Flag of the Grand Duchy of Finland was the historical banner used during Finland’s period as an autonomous grand duchy under the Russian Empire, featuring heraldic symbols representing Finnish identity and its status within the empire.
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E.
Norwegian flag
The Norwegian flag is the national flag of Norway, featuring a blue cross outlined in white on a red field, and serves as a prominent symbol of Norwegian identity and heritage worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maritime flag
ⓘ
naval ensign ⓘ state flag ⓘ |
| basedOn | Flag of Sweden ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Sweden
ⓘ
Maritime flags of Europe ⓘ Naval ensigns ⓘ |
| color |
blue
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
| country | Sweden ⓘ |
| crossColor | yellow ⓘ |
| crossOrientation | off-centre toward hoist ⓘ |
| crossType | Nordic cross ⓘ |
| design |
blue field with yellow Nordic cross
ⓘ
triple-tailed swallow-tailed flag ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
civil ensign of Sweden
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state flag of Sweden ⓘ war flag of Sweden ⓘ |
| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| flagProportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| governmentBodyResponsible |
Swedish government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Sweden
Swedish Armed Forces ⓘ |
| hasElement |
Nordic cross design
ⓘ
Swedish national colors ⓘ |
| legalStatus | regulated by Swedish law ⓘ |
| purpose |
identification of Swedish naval vessels
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indication of nationality at sea ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Naval ensign of Sweden
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Swedish civil ensign
Swedish national flag ⓘ Flag of Sweden ⓘ
surface form:
Swedish war flag
|
| shape | swallow-tailed ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Sweden
ⓘ
Swedish sovereignty at sea ⓘ |
| tailCount | 3 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Swedish Coast Guard
ⓘ
Swedish Navy ⓘ Swedish government ships ⓘ Swedish state vessels ⓘ |
| usedFor |
coast guard vessels of Sweden
ⓘ
government vessels of Sweden ⓘ naval auxiliary vessels of Sweden ⓘ state-owned merchant vessels of Sweden ⓘ warships of Sweden ⓘ |
| usedIn |
international waters
ⓘ
territorial waters of Sweden ⓘ |
| usedSince | 17th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none ⓘ |
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: Naval ensign of Sweden Description of subject: The Naval ensign of Sweden is the distinctive Swedish maritime flag featuring a triple-tailed (swallow-tailed) blue field with a yellow Nordic cross, used by the Swedish Navy and certain state vessels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Swedish war ensign
this entity surface form:
Swedish civil ensign