Flag of Turkmenistan
E549150
The Flag of Turkmenistan is a green field featuring a vertical red stripe with traditional carpet guls near the hoist, a white crescent, and five stars symbolizing the nation’s heritage and five regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Turkmenistan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530115 — 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 Turkmenistan Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Turkmenistan]
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A.
Flag of Uzbekistan
The Flag of Uzbekistan is a horizontal tricolor of blue, white, and green with thin red fimbriations, featuring a white crescent moon and twelve stars symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage, peace, and renewal.
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B.
Flag of Kazakhstan
The Flag of Kazakhstan is a sky-blue field featuring a golden sun with 32 rays above a soaring steppe eagle, with a national ornamental pattern along the hoist, symbolizing peace, freedom, and the country’s cultural heritage.
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C.
Flag of Afghanistan
The Flag of Afghanistan is a tricolour national flag historically featuring vertical bands—most recently black, red, and green—with a central emblem that has changed with successive Afghan governments and regimes.
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D.
Flag of Azerbaijan
The Flag of Azerbaijan is a horizontal tricolor of blue, red, and green with a white crescent and eight-pointed star centered on the red stripe, symbolizing Turkic heritage, progress, and Islamic culture.
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E.
Flag of the Kazakh SSR
The Flag of the Kazakh SSR was the red Soviet-era state flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, distinguished by a horizontal light blue stripe and the hammer and sickle with a red star in the upper hoist corner.
- 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 Turkmenistan Target entity description: The Flag of Turkmenistan is a green field featuring a vertical red stripe with traditional carpet guls near the hoist, a white crescent, and five stars symbolizing the nation’s heritage and five regions.
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A.
Flag of Uzbekistan
The Flag of Uzbekistan is a horizontal tricolor of blue, white, and green with thin red fimbriations, featuring a white crescent moon and twelve stars symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage, peace, and renewal.
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B.
Flag of Kazakhstan
The Flag of Kazakhstan is a sky-blue field featuring a golden sun with 32 rays above a soaring steppe eagle, with a national ornamental pattern along the hoist, symbolizing peace, freedom, and the country’s cultural heritage.
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C.
Flag of Afghanistan
The Flag of Afghanistan is a tricolour national flag historically featuring vertical bands—most recently black, red, and green—with a central emblem that has changed with successive Afghan governments and regimes.
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D.
Flag of Azerbaijan
The Flag of Azerbaijan is a horizontal tricolor of blue, red, and green with a white crescent and eight-pointed star centered on the red stripe, symbolizing Turkic heritage, progress, and Islamic culture.
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E.
Flag of the Kazakh SSR
The Flag of the Kazakh SSR was the red Soviet-era state flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, distinguished by a horizontal light blue stripe and the hammer and sickle with a red star in the upper hoist corner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1992-02-19 ⓘ |
| capitalCityFliesFlag | Ashgabat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carpetStripeWidth | about one-third of flag length ⓘ |
| carpetSymbolism | importance of carpet weaving in Turkmen culture ⓘ |
| contains | five carpet guls ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Turkmenistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crescentColor | white ⓘ |
| crescentOrientation | facing fly side ⓘ |
| crescentSymbolism | hope for a bright future ⓘ |
| design | green field with vertical red stripe near the hoist bearing carpet guls, with white crescent and five white stars ⓘ |
| ensignVariant | state flag with coat of arms for some uses ⓘ |
| features |
five white five-pointed stars
ⓘ
vertical red stripe with carpet guls ⓘ white crescent ⓘ |
| fieldColor | green ⓘ |
| greenSymbolism | Islam and fertility ⓘ |
| gulCount | 5 ⓘ |
| gulType | traditional Turkmen carpet motifs ⓘ |
| introducedAfter | dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| isSimilarTo |
Flag of Mauritania (in use before 2017)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flag of Pakistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Law on the State Flag of Turkmenistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modifiedOn |
1997-01-24
ⓘ
2001-08-15 ⓘ |
| numberOfStars | 5 ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| region | Central Asia ⓘ |
| replaced | Flag of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reverseDesign | mirror image of obverse ⓘ |
| starShape | five-pointed ⓘ |
| status | one of the most detailed national flags ⓘ |
| stripeColor | red ⓘ |
| stripePosition | near hoist ⓘ |
| symbolColor | white ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Islam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Turkmen heritage ⓘ five major Turkmen tribes ⓘ five regions of Turkmenistan ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Turkmenistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
President of Turkmenistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Turkmenistan Description of subject: The Flag of Turkmenistan is a green field featuring a vertical red stripe with traditional carpet guls near the hoist, a white crescent, and five stars symbolizing the nation’s heritage and five regions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.