Flag of Iran
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The Flag of Iran is a tricolour national flag of green, white, and red with a central emblem and stylized script symbolizing Islamic and national identity.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Iran canonical | 4 |
| Flag of Iran (1964–1980) | 1 |
| Flag of Iran (Pahlavi era) | 1 |
| Flag of Iran (pre-1979 pattern) | 1 |
| Flags of Iran | 1 |
| Iranian tricolour | 1 |
| Three-Coloured Flag of Iran | 1 |
| flag of Iran (pre-1979) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530093 — 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 Iran Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Iran]
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A.
Flag of Pakistan
The Flag of Pakistan is the national flag featuring a white star and crescent on a dark green field with a vertical white stripe, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and religious minorities.
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B.
Iraqi flag
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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C.
Flag of Armenia
The Flag of Armenia is a horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and orange that symbolizes the Armenian people's history, resilience, and aspirations.
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D.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
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E.
Flag of Syria
The Flag of Syria is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with two green stars, symbolizing Arab unity and used as the national flag of the Syrian Arab Republic.
- 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 Iran Target entity description: The Flag of Iran is a tricolour national flag of green, white, and red with a central emblem and stylized script symbolizing Islamic and national identity.
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A.
Flag of Pakistan
The Flag of Pakistan is the national flag featuring a white star and crescent on a dark green field with a vertical white stripe, symbolizing the country's Islamic heritage and religious minorities.
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B.
Iraqi flag
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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C.
Flag of Armenia
The Flag of Armenia is a horizontal tricolor of red, blue, and orange that symbolizes the Armenian people's history, resilience, and aspirations.
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D.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
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E.
Flag of Syria
The Flag of Syria is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with two green stars, symbolizing Arab unity and used as the national flag of the Syrian Arab Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
|
| adoptionDate | 1980-07-29 ⓘ |
| adoptionYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Iranian tricolour
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Iran
Three-Coloured Flag of Iran ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Iran
|
| aspectRatio | 4:7 ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of countries
ⓘ
National symbols of Iran ⓘ |
| centralEmblemColor | red ⓘ |
| centralEmblemPosition | center of the white band ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolour of green, white, and red ⓘ |
| designer | Hamid Nadimi ⓘ |
| emblem | red emblem of Iran in the center of the white band ⓘ |
| featureCount | three horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| government | Government of Iran ⓘ |
| greenSymbolism |
Islam
ⓘ
growth ⓘ |
| inscription | Allahu Akbar ⓘ |
| inscriptionLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| inscriptionPlacement | inner edges of green and red bands ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| numberOfInscriptions | 22 ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Flag of Iran (1964–1980)
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Iran
|
| previousEmblem | Lion and Sun ⓘ |
| proportionGreenWhiteRed | equal horizontal bands ⓘ |
| redSymbolism |
courage
ⓘ
martyrdom ⓘ |
| religionRepresented | Islam ⓘ |
| script | stylized Kufic script on borders of green and red bands ⓘ |
| scriptRepetitionCountPerSide | 11 ⓘ |
| scriptStyle |
Kufic
ⓘ
linked to:
Kufic script
|
| status | in use ⓘ |
| symbol |
Islamic identity
ⓘ
national identity ⓘ stylized word Allah in the central emblem ⓘ tulip-shaped emblem ⓘ |
| totalScriptRepetitions | 22 ⓘ |
| uses |
civil flag
ⓘ
naval ensign ⓘ state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| whiteSymbolism | peace ⓘ |
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 Iran Description of subject: The Flag of Iran is a tricolour national flag of green, white, and red with a central emblem and stylized script symbolizing Islamic and national identity.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran
subject linked to:
lion and sun emblem of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran
linked to: Flag of Iran