Flag of Western Australia
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The Flag of Western Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced with a black swan on a yellow disc, symbolizing the state's identity and heritage within Australia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Western Australia canonical | 5 |
| flag of Western Australia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4167161 — 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 Western Australia Context triple: [Premier of Western Australia, flagUsedInOfficialCapacity, Flag of Western Australia]
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A.
Flag of South Australia
The Flag of South Australia is a blue ensign featuring the state badge with a distinctive piping shrike (Australian magpie) set against a golden disc, symbolizing the region’s identity within Australia.
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B.
Flag of New South Wales
The Flag of New South Wales is an Australian state flag featuring a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state's distinctive badge derived from its coat of arms.
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C.
Flag of Queensland
The Flag of Queensland is the state flag of Queensland, Australia, featuring a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state's royal crown emblem on a white disc.
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D.
Flag of Galmudug
The Flag of Galmudug is the official regional banner of the Galmudug State in central Somalia, symbolizing its political identity and autonomy within the federal republic.
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E.
Flag of the Governor of Western Australia
The Flag of the Governor of Western Australia is the official standard flown to represent the office and presence of the state's vice-regal representative.
- 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 Western Australia Target entity description: The Flag of Western Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced with a black swan on a yellow disc, symbolizing the state's identity and heritage within Australia.
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A.
Flag of South Australia
The Flag of South Australia is a blue ensign featuring the state badge with a distinctive piping shrike (Australian magpie) set against a golden disc, symbolizing the region’s identity within Australia.
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B.
Flag of New South Wales
The Flag of New South Wales is an Australian state flag featuring a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state's distinctive badge derived from its coat of arms.
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C.
Flag of Queensland
The Flag of Queensland is the state flag of Queensland, Australia, featuring a British Blue Ensign defaced with the state's royal crown emblem on a white disc.
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D.
Flag of Galmudug
The Flag of Galmudug is the official regional banner of the Galmudug State in central Somalia, symbolizing its political identity and autonomy within the federal republic.
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E.
Flag of the Governor of Western Australia
The Flag of the Governor of Western Australia is the official standard flown to represent the office and presence of the state's vice-regal representative.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ |
| adopted | 1953 ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1953-11-03 ⓘ |
| associatedAnimal | black swan ⓘ |
| backgroundDesign | Blue Ensign ⓘ |
| badge | black swan on yellow disc ⓘ |
| badgeBackgroundColor | yellow ⓘ |
| badgeColor | black ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Western Australia ⓘ |
| canton |
Union Flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Union Jack
|
| category |
Saint Helena flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Blue Ensign flag
|
| charge | black swan ⓘ |
| color | black ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| defacedWith | black swan ⓘ |
| designElement |
black swan silhouette
ⓘ
yellow disc ⓘ |
| designOrigin | colonial flag tradition of the British Empire ⓘ |
| discColor | yellow ⓘ |
| emblemPosition | fly ⓘ |
| features | Union Jack in canton ⓘ |
| fieldColor | blue ⓘ |
| governmentLevel | state ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | British maritime ensigns ⓘ |
| legalAuthority | Western Australian government proclamation ⓘ |
| officialLanguageDescription | British Blue Ensign with the badge of Western Australia in the fly ⓘ |
| partOf | flags of Australian states and territories ⓘ |
| precededBy | earlier colonial flag of Western Australia ⓘ |
| proportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| region | Oceania ⓘ |
| represents | Western Australia ⓘ |
| side | obverse and reverse identical ⓘ |
| status | official ⓘ |
| symbol | black swan ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
heritage of Western Australia
ⓘ
identity of Western Australia ⓘ |
| symbolType | state symbol ⓘ |
| type | civil and state flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Western Australia
ⓘ
state authorities of Western Australia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
government buildings in Western Australia
ⓘ
official ceremonies in Western Australia ⓘ |
| usedSince | 1953 ⓘ |
| usesDesign | British Blue Ensign ⓘ |
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 Western Australia Description of subject: The Flag of Western Australia is a British Blue Ensign defaced with a black swan on a yellow disc, symbolizing the state's identity and heritage within Australia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
flag of Western Australia