flag of Romania
E139299
The flag of Romania is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red, symbolizing the country's national identity and historical regions.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Romania canonical | 3 |
| Romanian flag | 2 |
| Flag of Romania | 1 |
| drapelul României | 1 |
| flag of the Kingdom of Romania | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1223548 — 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 Romania Context triple: [French tricolour, inspiredOtherFlags, flag of Romania]
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A.
Romani flag
The Romani flag is a blue-and-green bicolor with a red, sixteen-spoked chakra wheel in the center, symbolizing the Romani people's Indian origins, nomadic heritage, and shared identity.
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B.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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C.
Flag of Estonia
The Flag of Estonia is a horizontal tricolor of blue, black, and white that symbolizes the country’s sky, soil, and hope for freedom and independence.
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D.
Flag of Albania
The Flag of Albania is a striking national flag featuring a black double-headed eagle centered on a red field, symbolizing bravery, strength, and the country’s historic sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for 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 Romania Target entity description: The flag of Romania is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red, symbolizing the country's national identity and historical regions.
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A.
Romani flag
The Romani flag is a blue-and-green bicolor with a red, sixteen-spoked chakra wheel in the center, symbolizing the Romani people's Indian origins, nomadic heritage, and shared identity.
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B.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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C.
Flag of Estonia
The Flag of Estonia is a horizontal tricolor of blue, black, and white that symbolizes the country’s sky, soil, and hope for freedom and independence.
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D.
Flag of Albania
The Flag of Albania is a striking national flag featuring a black double-headed eagle centered on a red field, symbolizing bravery, strength, and the country’s historic sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of Greece
The Flag of Greece is a national symbol featuring nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue canton, representing Greek Orthodoxy and the country's struggle for independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1989-12-27 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Romania ⓘ |
| blueRepresents | Transylvania ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Europe
ⓘ
National symbols of Romania ⓘ Tricolour flags ⓘ |
| color |
blue
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| country | Romania ⓘ |
| design | vertical tricolour ⓘ |
| fileName | Flag of Romania.svg ⓘ |
| firstTricolourUsage | 1834 ⓘ |
| flySideColor | red ⓘ |
| hasNoCoatOfArms | true ⓘ |
| hoistSideColor | blue ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | French tricolour ⓘ |
| isCivilFlag | true ⓘ |
| ISO3166Country | RO ⓘ |
| isRectangular | true ⓘ |
| isStateFlag | true ⓘ |
| isWarFlag | true ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Law no. 75/1994
ⓘ
Romanian Constitution ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| nationalDay | December 1 ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOfDescription |
Romanian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian
|
| predecessor |
flag of Romania
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
flag of the Kingdom of Romania
flag of the Socialist Republic of Romania ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| redRepresents | Moldavia ⓘ |
| romanianName |
flag of Romania
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
drapelul României
|
| similarTo |
flag of Andorra
ⓘ
flag of Chad ⓘ |
| standardized | yes ⓘ |
| stripeOrder | blue-yellow-red from hoist to fly ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
historical regions of Romania
ⓘ
national identity of Romania ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Romanian Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Armed Forces of Romania
Government of Romania ⓘ President of Romania ⓘ Romanian public institutions ⓘ |
| usedOnNationalDay | Great Union Day ⓘ |
| yellowRepresents | Wallachia ⓘ |
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 Romania Description of subject: The flag of Romania is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red, symbolizing the country's national identity and historical regions.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Romanian flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of Romania
this entity surface form:
drapelul României
this entity surface form:
flag of the Kingdom of Romania
this entity surface form:
Romanian flag