Flag of Brunei
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The Flag of Brunei is a yellow field with diagonal white and black stripes and a central red crest featuring a parasol, wings, hands, and Arabic script, symbolizing the nation's monarchy and Islamic heritage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Brunei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530128 — 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 Brunei Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Brunei]
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A.
Flag of Malaysia
The Flag of Malaysia, known as "Jalur Gemilang," features 14 red and white stripes and a blue canton with a yellow crescent and 14-point star symbolizing the country's states, federal territories, and Islamic heritage.
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B.
Flag of Aceh
The Flag of Aceh is a regional banner used by the Indonesian province of Aceh, symbolizing its distinct historical, cultural, and political identity within the country.
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C.
Flag of Indonesia
The Flag of Indonesia is a simple horizontal bicolor of red over white that serves as the national flag and symbol of the Republic of Indonesia.
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D.
Flag of Palau
The Flag of Palau is a light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly off-center, symbolizing the Pacific Ocean and the moon, and representing the island nation's identity and independence.
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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 Brunei Target entity description: The Flag of Brunei is a yellow field with diagonal white and black stripes and a central red crest featuring a parasol, wings, hands, and Arabic script, symbolizing the nation's monarchy and Islamic heritage.
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A.
Flag of Malaysia
The Flag of Malaysia, known as "Jalur Gemilang," features 14 red and white stripes and a blue canton with a yellow crescent and 14-point star symbolizing the country's states, federal territories, and Islamic heritage.
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B.
Flag of Aceh
The Flag of Aceh is a regional banner used by the Indonesian province of Aceh, symbolizing its distinct historical, cultural, and political identity within the country.
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C.
Flag of Indonesia
The Flag of Indonesia is a simple horizontal bicolor of red over white that serves as the national flag and symbol of the Republic of Indonesia.
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D.
Flag of Palau
The Flag of Palau is a light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly off-center, symbolizing the Pacific Ocean and the moon, and representing the island nation's identity and independence.
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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 (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1959-09-29 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1:2 ⓘ |
| containsInscription |
state motto in Arabic
ⓘ
“Always render service with God’s guidance” (translation) ⓘ “Brunei Darussalam” in Arabic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Brunei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crestColor | red ⓘ |
| crestElement |
crescent
ⓘ
hands ⓘ parasol ⓘ wings ⓘ |
| designType | charged flag ⓘ |
| fieldColorMeaning | yellow symbolizes the Sultan of Brunei ⓘ |
| governmentSymbolism | Sultanate system of Brunei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDesignElement |
Arabic script
ⓘ
central red crest ⓘ diagonal black stripe ⓘ diagonal white stripe ⓘ royal parasol ⓘ upturned hands ⓘ wings ⓘ yellow field ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Royal Standard of the Sultan of Brunei (historical influence) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officiallyReadoptedOn | 1984-01-01 ⓘ |
| religiousSymbolism | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scriptLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| scriptType | Arabic script ⓘ |
| stripeColorMeaning |
black stripe symbolizes Brunei’s chief ministers
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white stripe symbolizes Brunei’s chief ministers ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Brunei monarchy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islamic heritage of Brunei ⓘ national identity of Brunei ⓘ royal authority ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Brunei
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
citizens of Brunei ⓘ |
| usedSince | late 19th century (basic yellow flag with stripes) ⓘ |
| usesColor |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
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 Brunei Description of subject: The Flag of Brunei is a yellow field with diagonal white and black stripes and a central red crest featuring a parasol, wings, hands, and Arabic script, symbolizing the nation's monarchy and Islamic heritage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.