Turkish flag
E45805
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.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Turkey | 7 |
| Turkish flag canonical | 6 |
| flag of Turkey | 3 |
| Ayyıldızlı al bayrak | 1 |
| Turkish Flag Law of 1936 | 1 |
| Türkiye bayrağı | 1 |
| modern flag of Turkey | 1 |
| national flag of Turkey | 1 |
| red Ottoman national flag | 1 |
| star and crescent of Turkey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T361827 — 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: Turkish flag Context triple: [İstiklâl Marşı, mentions, Turkish flag]
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A.
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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B.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
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C.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for independence.
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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.
Amazigh flag
The Amazigh flag is a tricolour banner of blue, green, and yellow with a central red yaz symbol, representing the identity, culture, and unity of the Indigenous Amazigh (Berber) peoples of North Africa.
- 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: Turkish flag Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
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C.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for independence.
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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.
Amazigh flag
The Amazigh flag is a tricolour banner of blue, green, and yellow with a central red yaz symbol, representing the identity, culture, and unity of the Indigenous Amazigh (Berber) peoples of North Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1936-05-29 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Al bayrak
ⓘ
Ay yıldız ⓘ Turkish flag ⓘ
surface form:
Ayyıldızlı al bayrak
|
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Turkey
Turkish nationalism ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | red ⓘ |
| capitalCityUsage | widely displayed in Ankara ⓘ |
| category |
Flags with crescents
ⓘ
Flags with stars ⓘ National symbols of Turkey ⓘ Red flags ⓘ |
| colorSymbolism |
red symbolizes the blood of martyrs
ⓘ
white symbolizes peace ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| crescentColor | white ⓘ |
| crescentOrientation | open to the right ⓘ |
| designElement | white crescent and star slightly left of center ⓘ |
| designType | charged red field ⓘ |
| emblemPosition | slightly left of center ⓘ |
| fieldColor | red ⓘ |
| flagCode | TR ⓘ |
| historicalPrecursor | Ottoman flag ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | late Ottoman Empire flag designs ⓘ |
| ISOcountryCode | TR ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Turkish flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish Flag Law of 1936
|
| nativeName |
Turkish flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Türkiye bayrağı
|
| officialName |
Turkish flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Turkey
|
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| regulates |
dimensions
ⓘ
shades of color ⓘ use and display ⓘ |
| starColor | white ⓘ |
| starPoints | 5 ⓘ |
| symbol |
white crescent
ⓘ
white five-pointed star ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Islamic cultural heritage
ⓘ
Turkish heritage ⓘ Turkish national identity ⓘ Turkish sovereignty ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Turkey
ⓘ
Armed Forces of Turkey ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish Armed Forces
Turkish citizens ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Turkish embassies abroad
ⓘ
Turkish ships ⓘ public buildings in 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: Turkish flag Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
red Ottoman national flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Türkiye bayrağı
this entity surface form:
Ayyıldızlı al bayrak
this entity surface form:
Turkish Flag Law of 1936
this entity surface form:
flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
national flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
star and crescent of Turkey
this entity surface form:
flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
modern flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey
this entity surface form:
Flag of Turkey