Flag of Maldives
E532840
The Flag of Maldives is a national flag featuring a green rectangle with a white crescent centered on a red field, symbolizing Islam and the nation's sovereignty.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Maldives canonical | 1 |
| Flag of the Maldives | 1 |
| State Flag of Maldives | 1 |
| flag of the Sultanate of Maldives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530091 — 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 Maldives Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Maldives]
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A.
Flag of the Marshall Islands
The Flag of the Marshall Islands is a blue field with diagonal orange and white stripes and a white star, symbolizing the island chain’s location in the Pacific and its cultural heritage.
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B.
Flag of British Indian Ocean Territory
The Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory is a colonial-style ensign featuring a Union Jack in the canton, blue and white wavy stripes symbolizing the Indian Ocean, and a palm tree with a crown representing the territory’s tropical islands and British sovereignty.
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C.
Flag of Fiji
The Flag of Fiji is a light blue ensign featuring the Union Jack in the canton and the Fijian shield on the fly, symbolizing the nation’s British colonial heritage and its maritime and agricultural identity.
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D.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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E.
Flag of Palau
The Flag of Palau is a light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly off-center, symbolizing the Pacific Ocean and the moon, and representing the island nation's identity and 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 Maldives Target entity description: The Flag of Maldives is a national flag featuring a green rectangle with a white crescent centered on a red field, symbolizing Islam and the nation's sovereignty.
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A.
Flag of the Marshall Islands
The Flag of the Marshall Islands is a blue field with diagonal orange and white stripes and a white star, symbolizing the island chain’s location in the Pacific and its cultural heritage.
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B.
Flag of British Indian Ocean Territory
The Flag of the British Indian Ocean Territory is a colonial-style ensign featuring a Union Jack in the canton, blue and white wavy stripes symbolizing the Indian Ocean, and a palm tree with a crown representing the territory’s tropical islands and British sovereignty.
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C.
Flag of Fiji
The Flag of Fiji is a light blue ensign featuring the Union Jack in the canton and the Fijian shield on the fly, symbolizing the nation’s British colonial heritage and its maritime and agricultural identity.
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D.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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E.
Flag of Palau
The Flag of Palau is a light blue field with a large yellow disk slightly off-center, symbolizing the Pacific Ocean and the moon, and representing the island nation's identity and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1965-07-25 ⓘ |
| adoptionContext | independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Asia
ⓘ
National flags ⓘ |
| centralPanelColor | green ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Maldives ⓘ |
| crescentColor | white ⓘ |
| designElement |
green rectangle centered on a red field
ⓘ
white crescent centered in the green rectangle ⓘ |
| designMeaning |
green represents peace and prosperity
ⓘ
red represents the blood of national heroes ⓘ white crescent represents Islam as the state religion ⓘ |
| featuresShape | rectangle ⓘ |
| featuresSymbol | crescent ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Naval Ensign of Maldives
ⓘ
Presidential Standard of Maldives ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of the President of the Maldives
State Flag of Maldives ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Maldives
|
| historicalPredecessor |
flag of the Sultanate of Maldives
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Maldives
|
| isDisplayedAt |
Maldivian embassies abroad
ⓘ
Maldivian schools ⓘ government buildings in Maldives ⓘ |
| isFlownOn |
Independence Day of Maldives
ⓘ
Republic Day of Maldives ⓘ national holidays of Maldives ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Maldivian flag law and regulations ⓘ |
| nationalSymbolOf | Maldives ⓘ |
| oceanRegion | Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| officialStatus | national flag of the Republic of Maldives ⓘ |
| region | South Asia ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation | Islam ⓘ |
| represents |
Republic of Maldives
ⓘ
linked to:
Maldives
|
| side | obverse and reverse are identical ⓘ |
| stateReligionRepresented | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| status | in current use ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Islam
ⓘ
national sovereignty ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Maldives
ⓘ
linked to:
government of Maldives
President of Maldives ⓘ
linked to:
President of the Maldives
civil population of Maldives ⓘ |
| usedSince | 1965 ⓘ |
| usesColor |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| 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 Maldives Description of subject: The Flag of Maldives is a national flag featuring a green rectangle with a white crescent centered on a red field, symbolizing Islam and the nation's sovereignty.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Maldives
linked to: Flag of Maldives
linked to: Flag of Maldives