Iraqi flag
E223970
The Iraqi flag is the national tricolor of Iraq, featuring horizontal bands of red, white, and black with green Arabic script symbolizing the Takbir.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Iraq | 3 |
| flag of Iraq | 2 |
| Arab Liberation Flag | 1 |
| Flags of Iraq | 1 |
| Iraqi Flag Law of 2008 | 1 |
| Iraqi flag canonical | 1 |
| Iraqi flag (2004–2008 design) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2001002 — 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: Iraqi flag Context triple: [Coat of arms of Iraq, element, Iraqi flag]
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A.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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B.
Flag of Algeria
The Flag of Algeria is a national flag featuring equal vertical bands of green and white with a red star and crescent at the center, symbolizing Islam, independence, and the country’s revolutionary heritage.
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C.
Turkish flag
The Turkish flag is the national flag of Turkey, featuring a white star and crescent on a red background, symbolizing the country's heritage and identity.
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D.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
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E.
Amazigh flag
The Amazigh flag is a tricolour banner of blue, green, and yellow with a central red yaz symbol, representing the identity, culture, and unity of the Indigenous Amazigh (Berber) peoples of North Africa.
- 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: Iraqi flag Target entity description: The Iraqi flag is the national tricolor of Iraq, featuring horizontal bands of red, white, and black with green Arabic script symbolizing the Takbir.
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A.
Flag of Palestine
The Flag of Palestine is a tricolor banner of black, white, and green horizontal stripes with a red triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Palestinian nationalism and identity.
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B.
Flag of Algeria
The Flag of Algeria is a national flag featuring equal vertical bands of green and white with a red star and crescent at the center, symbolizing Islam, independence, and the country’s revolutionary heritage.
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C.
Turkish flag
The Turkish flag is the national flag of Turkey, featuring a white star and crescent on a red background, symbolizing the country's heritage and identity.
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D.
Israeli flag
The Israeli flag is the national flag of Israel, featuring a blue Star of David between two horizontal blue stripes on a white background.
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E.
Amazigh flag
The Amazigh flag is a tricolour banner of blue, green, and yellow with a central red yaz symbol, representing the identity, culture, and unity of the Indigenous Amazigh (Berber) peoples of North Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national flag
ⓘ
tricolour ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 2008-01-22 ⓘ |
| adoptionYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Pan-Arab colors ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | black ⓘ |
| category |
Flags displaying Arabic script
ⓘ
Iraqi flag self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Flags of Iraq
National flags ⓘ |
| containsPhrase | Takbir ⓘ |
| country | Iraq ⓘ |
| hasDesign | horizontal tricolour of red white and black ⓘ |
| hasScript | Arabic ⓘ |
| inscription | Allahu Akbar ⓘ |
| inscriptionLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| inscriptionMeaning | God is the Greatest ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Iraqi flag
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Iraqi Flag Law of 2008
|
| middleStripeColor | white ⓘ |
| officialStatus | current national flag of Iraq ⓘ |
| positionOfInscription | center of white band ⓘ |
| previousVersionIncluded | three green stars ⓘ |
| previousVersionUsedFrom | 2004 ⓘ |
| previousVersionUsedUntil | 2008 ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| replaced | Baathist-era Iraqi flag ⓘ |
| scriptColor | green ⓘ |
| sharesColorsWith |
flag of Egypt
ⓘ
surface form:
Egyptian flag
Flag of Syria ⓘ
surface form:
Syrian flag
Flag of Yemen ⓘ
surface form:
Yemeni flag
|
| symbolismColorBlack | oppression overcome ⓘ |
| symbolismColorGreen | Islam ⓘ |
| symbolismColorRed | courage ⓘ |
| symbolismColorWhite | peace ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Iraq
ⓘ
Iraqi Security Forces ⓘ
surface form:
Iraqi Armed Forces
|
| usesColor |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| writingOrientation | right-to-left ⓘ |
| writingStyle | Kufic-style Arabic script ⓘ |
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: Iraqi flag Description of subject: The Iraqi flag is the national tricolor of Iraq, featuring horizontal bands of red, white, and black with green Arabic script symbolizing the Takbir.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
flag of Iraq
this entity surface form:
Flag of Iraq
this entity surface form:
Flag of Iraq
this entity surface form:
flag of Iraq
this entity surface form:
Flags of Iraq
this entity surface form:
Iraqi Flag Law of 2008
this entity surface form:
Arab Liberation Flag
this entity surface form:
Flag of Iraq
this entity surface form:
Iraqi flag (2004–2008 design)