Flag of Syria
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The Flag of Syria is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with two green stars, symbolizing Arab unity and used as the national flag of the Syrian Arab Republic.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Syria canonical | 2 |
| Syrian flag | 2 |
| Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic | 1 |
| Flags of Syria | 1 |
| flag of Syria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2398856 — 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 Syria Context triple: [Embassy of Syria in Washington, D.C., usesFlag, Flag of Syria]
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A.
Flag of Algeria
The Flag of Algeria is a national flag featuring equal vertical bands of green and white with a red star and crescent at the center, symbolizing Islam, independence, and the country’s revolutionary heritage.
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B.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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C.
flag of Egypt
The flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black featuring the golden Eagle of Saladin at its center, symbolizing the nation’s modern identity and Arab heritage.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Cyprus
The Flag of Cyprus is a white field featuring a copper-colored silhouette of the island above two green olive branches, symbolizing peace and the country's copper resources.
- 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 Syria Target entity description: The Flag of Syria is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with two green stars, symbolizing Arab unity and used as the national flag of the Syrian Arab Republic.
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A.
Flag of Algeria
The Flag of Algeria is a national flag featuring equal vertical bands of green and white with a red star and crescent at the center, symbolizing Islam, independence, and the country’s revolutionary heritage.
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B.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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C.
flag of Egypt
The flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black featuring the golden Eagle of Saladin at its center, symbolizing the nation’s modern identity and Arab heritage.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Cyprus
The Flag of Cyprus is a white field featuring a copper-colored silhouette of the island above two green olive branches, symbolizing peace and the country's copper resources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1980-03-29 ⓘ |
| adoptionYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| belongsToColorSet | Pan-Arab colors ⓘ |
| blackSymbolism | past oppression and colonialism ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | black ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of countries in Asia
ⓘ
National symbols of Syria ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Syria ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolour of red, white, and black with two green stars in the white band ⓘ |
| emblemPresence | no coat of arms ⓘ |
| greenSymbolism | Islam and fertility ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeVersion | Flag of the Syrian opposition ⓘ |
| historicalVariantOf |
flag of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the United Arab Republic
|
| inspiredBy |
Iraqi flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab Liberation Flag
|
| middleStripeColor | white ⓘ |
| numberOfStars | 2 ⓘ |
| officialName |
Flag of Syria
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic
|
| oppositionFlagDescription | green-white-black horizontal tricolour with three red stars ⓘ |
| pattern | horizontal tricolour ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| redSymbolism | sacrifice and struggle ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
flag of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Egypt
Iraqi flag ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Iraq
Flag of Yemen ⓘ |
| represents |
Syria
ⓘ
surface form:
Syrian Arab Republic
|
| starArrangement | two stars in a horizontal row in the center of the white band ⓘ |
| starColor | green ⓘ |
| starShape | five-pointed star ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 3 ⓘ |
| symbol | two green five-pointed stars ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Arab nationalism
ⓘ
Arab unity ⓘ membership in the Arab world ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usage |
civil and state flag
ⓘ
war flag ⓘ |
| usedAs | national symbol of Syria ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Syria
ⓘ
surface form:
Syrian Arab Republic
|
| usedIn |
Syrian embassies abroad
ⓘ
Syrian Armed Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Syrian military
government buildings in Syria ⓘ |
| whiteSymbolism | peace and a bright future ⓘ |
| writingDirectionOfInsignia | 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: Flag of Syria Description of subject: The Flag of Syria is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with two green stars, symbolizing Arab unity and used as the national flag of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
flag of Syria
this entity surface form:
Syrian flag
this entity surface form:
Syrian flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic
this entity surface form:
Flags of Syria