Ottoman flag
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The Ottoman flag was the red banner featuring a white crescent and star that symbolized the Ottoman Empire and later inspired the modern flag of Turkey.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz | 1 |
| Ottoman flag canonical | 1 |
| Ottoman naval ensign | 1 |
| naval ensign of the Ottoman Empire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2061791 — 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: Ottoman flag Context triple: [Turkish flag, historicalPrecursor, Ottoman flag]
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A.
Turkish flag
The Turkish flag is the national flag of Turkey, featuring a white star and crescent on a red background, symbolizing the country's heritage and identity.
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B.
Crimean Tatar flag
The Crimean Tatar flag is a light blue banner featuring a golden tamga (a traditional heraldic emblem) symbolizing the national identity and heritage of the Crimean Tatar people.
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C.
Iraqi flag
The Iraqi flag is the national tricolor of Iraq, featuring horizontal bands of red, white, and black with green Arabic script symbolizing the Takbir.
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D.
Romani flag
The Romani flag is a blue-and-green bicolor with a red, sixteen-spoked chakra wheel in the center, symbolizing the Romani people's Indian origins, nomadic heritage, and shared identity.
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E.
Ottoman coat of arms
The Ottoman coat of arms is the elaborate imperial emblem adopted in the late 19th century that symbolically represents the authority, institutions, and multi-ethnic character of the Ottoman Empire.
- 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: Ottoman flag Target entity description: The Ottoman flag was the red banner featuring a white crescent and star that symbolized the Ottoman Empire and later inspired the modern flag of Turkey.
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A.
Turkish flag
The Turkish flag is the national flag of Turkey, featuring a white star and crescent on a red background, symbolizing the country's heritage and identity.
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B.
Crimean Tatar flag
The Crimean Tatar flag is a light blue banner featuring a golden tamga (a traditional heraldic emblem) symbolizing the national identity and heritage of the Crimean Tatar people.
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C.
Iraqi flag
The Iraqi flag is the national tricolor of Iraq, featuring horizontal bands of red, white, and black with green Arabic script symbolizing the Takbir.
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D.
Romani flag
The Romani flag is a blue-and-green bicolor with a red, sixteen-spoked chakra wheel in the center, symbolizing the Romani people's Indian origins, nomadic heritage, and shared identity.
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E.
Ottoman coat of arms
The Ottoman coat of arms is the elaborate imperial emblem adopted in the late 19th century that symbolically represents the authority, institutions, and multi-ethnic character of the Ottoman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedAsNationalFlag | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman Caliphate
Ottoman imperial identity ⓘ Ottoman sultan ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman sultans
|
| backgroundColor | red ⓘ |
| backgroundShape | rectangular ⓘ |
| category |
Flags with crescents
ⓘ
Flags with stars ⓘ |
| color | red ⓘ |
| country | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| crescentColor | white ⓘ |
| culturalMeaning |
Ottoman sovereignty
ⓘ
continuity of Turkish statehood ⓘ |
| designElement |
white crescent
ⓘ
white star ⓘ |
| fieldColor | red ⓘ |
| governmentalUse | state flag of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| influenced |
flags of some Muslim-majority countries
ⓘ
flags of some Turkic states ⓘ |
| inspirationFor | modern Turkish flag ⓘ |
| inspired | flag of Turkey ⓘ |
| inUseUntil | 1922 ⓘ |
| militaryUse | war flag of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| navalUse |
Ottoman flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
naval ensign of the Ottoman Empire
|
| relatedTo |
Ottoman imperial standards
ⓘ
Ottoman coat of arms ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire
|
| religiousSymbolism | Islam ⓘ |
| replacedBy | flag of Turkey ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left symbolic orientation of crescent ⓘ |
| starColor | white ⓘ |
| symbolElement |
crescent
ⓘ
five-pointed star ⓘ |
| symbolizes | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Ottoman period ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ottoman Army
ⓘ
Ottoman navy ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman Navy
Ottoman authorities ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman government
|
| usedIn |
Ottoman chancery
ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman diplomatic missions
Ottoman military campaigns ⓘ official ceremonies of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| visualSuccessor |
Turkish flag
ⓘ
surface form:
modern flag of Turkey
|
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: Ottoman flag Description of subject: The Ottoman flag was the red banner featuring a white crescent and star that symbolized the Ottoman Empire and later inspired the modern flag of Turkey.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz
this entity surface form:
naval ensign of the Ottoman Empire
subject surface form:
Midilli
this entity surface form:
Ottoman naval ensign