Darwin fish symbol

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parody symbol secular symbol symbol of evolution

The Darwin fish symbol is a parody of the Christian ichthys emblem, depicting a fish with legs and often the word "Darwin" inside to represent support for evolution and secular or scientific viewpoints.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Darwin fish eating smaller ichthys	1
Darwin fish symbol canonical	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	parody symbol ⓘ secular symbol ⓘ symbol of evolution ⓘ
associatedWith	Charles Darwin ⓘ agnosticism ⓘ atheism ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ freethought ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ
contrastsWith	ichthys ⓘ surface form: Christian ichthys emblem
culturalContext	creation–evolution controversy ⓘ science and religion debates in the United States ⓘ
depicts	fish with legs ⓘ
emergedIn	late 20th century ⓘ
hasFeature	often includes feet ⓘ stylized fish outline ⓘ two or more legs extending from body ⓘ
hasVariant	Darwin fish symbol self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Darwin fish eating smaller ichthys Darwin fish with wrench or tool ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ
intendedAudience	science enthusiasts ⓘ secular individuals ⓘ supporters of evolution ⓘ
medium	automobile emblem ⓘ metal badge ⓘ vinyl decal ⓘ
parodies	Christian ichthys symbol ⓘ
represents	critique of creationism ⓘ support for evolution ⓘ support for science ⓘ support for secularism ⓘ
symbolizes	acceptance of scientific explanations of life ⓘ conflict between science and literalist religion ⓘ natural selection ⓘ
typicalColor	black ⓘ silver ⓘ white ⓘ
typicallyContainsText	Darwin ⓘ
usedAs	expression of non-religious identity ⓘ expression of support for teaching evolution ⓘ satirical commentary on religious belief ⓘ
usedOn	car bumper ⓘ car trunk ⓘ clothing ⓘ jewelry ⓘ stickers ⓘ
visualMotive	modification of ichthys outline ⓘ

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: Darwin fish symbol
Description of subject: The Darwin fish symbol is a parody of the Christian ichthys emblem, depicting a fish with legs and often the word "Darwin" inside to represent support for evolution and secular or scientific viewpoints.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

ichthys → contrastedWith → Darwin fish symbol ⓘ

subject surface form: Ichthys

Darwin fish symbol → hasVariant → Darwin fish symbol self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Darwin fish eating smaller ichthys