Flag of Myanmar
E532844
The Flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing solidarity, peace, and the union of the country’s diverse ethnic groups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Myanmar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530119 — 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 Myanmar Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Myanmar]
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A.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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B.
Flag of Laos
The Flag of Laos is a horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and red with a central white disc, symbolizing the unity of the Lao people and the nation’s bright future.
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C.
Flag of Cambodia
The Flag of Cambodia features a depiction of Angkor Wat centered on a red stripe flanked by blue bands, symbolizing the nation’s heritage, bravery, and royalty.
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D.
Flag of Pakistan
The Flag of Pakistan is the national flag featuring a white star and crescent on a dark green field with a vertical white stripe, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and religious minorities.
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E.
Singapore national flag
The Singapore national flag is a red and white bicolour featuring a white crescent moon and five stars in a circle, symbolizing the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice, and equality.
- 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 Myanmar Target entity description: The Flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing solidarity, peace, and the union of the country’s diverse ethnic groups.
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A.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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B.
Flag of Laos
The Flag of Laos is a horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and red with a central white disc, symbolizing the unity of the Lao people and the nation’s bright future.
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C.
Flag of Cambodia
The Flag of Cambodia features a depiction of Angkor Wat centered on a red stripe flanked by blue bands, symbolizing the nation’s heritage, bravery, and royalty.
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D.
Flag of Pakistan
The Flag of Pakistan is the national flag featuring a white star and crescent on a dark green field with a vertical white stripe, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and religious minorities.
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E.
Singapore national flag
The Singapore national flag is a red and white bicolour featuring a white crescent moon and five stars in a circle, symbolizing the nation’s ideals of democracy, peace, progress, justice, and equality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 2010-10-21 ⓘ |
| adoptionReason | replacement of the 1974 socialist-era flag ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Flag of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myanmar national flag ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| centralEmblem | white five-pointed star ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| country | Myanmar ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center ⓘ |
| ensignVariant |
civil ensign of Myanmar
ⓘ
naval ensign of Myanmar ⓘ state ensign of Myanmar ⓘ |
| fieldType | tricolour ⓘ |
| greenRepresents |
lush greenery of the country
ⓘ
peace and tranquillity ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 3 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Flag of Myanmar (1974–2010) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| redRepresents | courage ⓘ |
| replaced | Flag of Myanmar (1974–2010) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptDirectionOnFlag | none (no text on the flag) ⓘ |
| starPoints | 5 ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| stripeOrientation | horizontal ⓘ |
| symbol | five-pointed star ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
courage
ⓘ
harmony ⓘ peace ⓘ perpetual existence of the union ⓘ solidarity ⓘ tranquillity ⓘ union of diverse ethnic groups ⓘ unity of the nation ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Myanmar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myanmar Armed Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ state institutions of Myanmar ⓘ |
| usedIn |
national day celebrations of Myanmar
ⓘ
official buildings in Myanmar ⓘ |
| whiteStarRepresents |
perpetual existence of the union
ⓘ
union of the country’s ethnic groups ⓘ |
| yellowRepresents | solidarity ⓘ |
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 Myanmar Description of subject: The Flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing solidarity, peace, and the union of the country’s diverse ethnic groups.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.