Flag of Yemen
E552478
The Flag of Yemen is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black symbolizing unity and Arab identity, adopted after the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Yemen canonical | 2 |
| Yemeni flag | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530101 — 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 Yemen Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Yemen]
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A.
Flag of Oman
The Flag of Oman is the national flag featuring horizontal white, red, and green stripes with a vertical red band at the hoist bearing the national emblem of crossed swords and a khanjar (dagger).
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B.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
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C.
Flag of Tunisia
The Flag of Tunisia is a red field featuring a white circle with a red crescent and five-pointed star, symbolizing the country’s Islamic heritage and national identity.
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D.
Flag of Bahrain
The Flag of Bahrain is a national flag featuring a white band with a serrated edge separating it from a larger red field, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and historical battles.
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E.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
- 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 Yemen Target entity description: The Flag of Yemen is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black symbolizing unity and Arab identity, adopted after the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990.
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A.
Flag of Oman
The Flag of Oman is the national flag featuring horizontal white, red, and green stripes with a vertical red band at the hoist bearing the national emblem of crossed swords and a khanjar (dagger).
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B.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
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C.
Flag of Tunisia
The Flag of Tunisia is a red field featuring a white circle with a red crescent and five-pointed star, symbolizing the country’s Islamic heritage and national identity.
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D.
Flag of Bahrain
The Flag of Bahrain is a national flag featuring a white band with a serrated edge separating it from a larger red field, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and historical battles.
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E.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1990-05-22 ⓘ |
| adoptionEvent | Unification of North Yemen and South Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackSymbolism |
dark past
ⓘ
oppression ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | black ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Asia
ⓘ
National flags ⓘ Tricolour flags ⓘ |
| civilFlag | yes ⓘ |
| colour |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Yemen ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolour ⓘ |
| emblemOnFlag | none ⓘ |
| hasCoatOfArmsVariant | State flag of Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Arab Liberation colors
ⓘ
Flag of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Flag of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Flag of Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | white ⓘ |
| pattern | three equal horizontal bands ⓘ |
| predecessorFlag |
Flag of North Yemen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flag of South Yemen ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| redSymbolism |
blood of martyrs
ⓘ
struggle for freedom ⓘ |
| reverseDesign | identical to obverse ⓘ |
| stateFlag | yes ⓘ |
| stateFlagVariantDesign | national flag defaced with the Yemeni coat of arms ⓘ |
| stripeOrderFromTop |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Arab identity
ⓘ
Arab nationalism ⓘ Yemeni unity ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usesAtSea | yes ⓘ |
| usesOnLand | yes ⓘ |
| usesPanArabColors | true ⓘ |
| warFlag | yes ⓘ |
| whiteSymbolism |
bright future
ⓘ
hope ⓘ |
| writingSystemOnFlag | none ⓘ |
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 Yemen Description of subject: The Flag of Yemen is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black symbolizing unity and Arab identity, adopted after the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yemeni flag