Flag of Western Australia

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The Flag of Western Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced with a black swan on a yellow disc, symbolizing the state's identity and heritage within Australia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Flag of Western Australia canonical 5
flag of Western Australia 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf flag
state flag
adopted 1953
adoptionDate 1953-11-03
associatedAnimal black swan
backgroundDesign Blue Ensign
badge black swan on yellow disc
badgeBackgroundColor yellow
badgeColor black
belongsTo Western Australia
canton Union Flag
surface form: Union Jack
category Saint Helena flag
surface form: Blue Ensign flag
charge black swan
color black
country Australia
defacedWith black swan
designElement black swan silhouette
yellow disc
designOrigin colonial flag tradition of the British Empire
discColor yellow
emblemPosition fly
features Union Jack in canton
fieldColor blue
governmentLevel state
inspiredBy British maritime ensigns
legalAuthority Western Australian government proclamation
officialLanguageDescription British Blue Ensign with the badge of Western Australia in the fly
partOf flags of Australian states and territories
precededBy earlier colonial flag of Western Australia
proportion 1:2
region Oceania
represents Western Australia
side obverse and reverse identical
status official
symbol black swan
symbolizes heritage of Western Australia
identity of Western Australia
symbolType state symbol
type civil and state flag
usedBy Government of Western Australia
state authorities of Western Australia
usedIn government buildings in Western Australia
official ceremonies in Western Australia
usedSince 1953
usesDesign British Blue Ensign

How these facts were elicited

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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: Flag of Western Australia
Description of subject: The Flag of Western Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced with a black swan on a yellow disc, symbolizing the state's identity and heritage within Australia.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Premier of Western Australia flagUsedInOfficialCapacity Flag of Western Australia
Flag of New South Wales isSimilarTo Flag of Western Australia
Australian state flags and standards hasComponent Flag of Western Australia
Flag of the Governor of Western Australia basedOn Flag of Western Australia
coat of arms of Western Australia relatedTo Flag of Western Australia
this entity surface form: flag of Western Australia
Black swan appearsOn Flag of Western Australia