Royal Cypher

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The Royal Cypher is the personal monogram or emblem of a reigning British monarch, typically combining their initials and royal title beneath a crown, and used as an official symbol on uniforms, badges, and government property.

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Label Occurrences
Royal Cypher canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf emblem
monogram
royal symbol
appliesTo reigning monarch
changesOn accession of new monarch
country United Kingdom
follows accession of monarch
governsUseBy royal prerogative
hasDesignElement stylized crown above letters
hasJurisdiction Commonwealth realms where British monarch is head of state
hasLanguage Latin
hasPart initials of monarch
royal crown
royal title
legalStatus official insignia of the Crown
predecessorExample ER II for Queen Elizabeth II
Royal Cypher of King George VI
surface form: GR VI for King George VI
relatedTo Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
surface form: Royal Arms of the United Kingdom

Royal Standard of the United Kingdom
Royal monogram
successorExample C III R for King Charles III
symbolizes authority of the monarch
reign of the monarch
timeInForce duration of monarch’s reign
usedBy British government departments
British monarch
British Armed Forces
surface form: armed forces of the United Kingdom

police forces in the United Kingdom
royal household
usedIn court and governmental seals
insignia of certain orders of chivalry
insignia of royal cypher-bearing regiments
signage of royal residences
usedOn badges
government property
military equipment
official documents
police equipment
post boxes
public buildings
royal household property
state regalia
uniforms
usesAbbreviation R meaning Rex or Regina
variesWith individual monarch
writtenForm combination of monarch’s initials and regnal number
followed by letter R for Rex or Regina

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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: Royal Cypher
Description of subject: The Royal Cypher is the personal monogram or emblem of a reigning British monarch, typically combining their initials and royal title beneath a crown, and used as an official symbol on uniforms, badges, and government property.

Referenced by (2)

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