Flag of Afghanistan
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The Flag of Afghanistan is a tricolour national flag historically featuring vertical bands—most recently black, red, and green—with a central emblem that has changed with successive Afghan governments and regimes.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5530092 — 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 Afghanistan Context triple: [Flags of Asia, includes, Flag of Afghanistan]
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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.
Flag of Myanmar
The Flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing solidarity, peace, and the union of the country’s diverse ethnic groups.
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C.
Flag of Nepal
The Flag of Nepal is the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, composed of two stacked crimson-red pennons with blue borders featuring a white moon and sun.
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D.
Flag of Iran
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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E.
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.
- 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 Afghanistan Target entity description: The Flag of Afghanistan is a tricolour national flag historically featuring vertical bands—most recently black, red, and green—with a central emblem that has changed with successive Afghan governments and regimes.
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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.
Flag of Myanmar
The Flag of Myanmar is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red with a large white five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing solidarity, peace, and the union of the country’s diverse ethnic groups.
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C.
Flag of Nepal
The Flag of Nepal is the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, composed of two stacked crimson-red pennons with blue borders featuring a white moon and sun.
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D.
Flag of Iran
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedVersion | 2004 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorMeaningBlack | past or previous hardships ⓘ |
| colorMeaningGreen | Islam and prosperity ⓘ |
| colorMeaningRed | blood of martyrs ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| dateAdopted | 2004-01-04 ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| hasCentralElement | emblem of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| hasColor |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ |
| hasDesign | vertical tricolour ⓘ |
| hasEmblemFeature |
mosque with mihrab and minbar
ⓘ
national motto in Arabic ⓘ rising sun ⓘ shahada inscription ⓘ sheaves of wheat ⓘ takbir inscription ⓘ year 1298 in the Islamic calendar ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOnEmblem |
Arabic
ⓘ
Dari ⓘ Pashto ⓘ |
| hasUse |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| historicalVariant |
1928 tricolour flag of Afghanistan
ⓘ
1930–1973 flag of Afghanistan ⓘ 1974–1978 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ 1978–1980 flag of Afghanistan ⓘ 1980–1987 flag of Afghanistan ⓘ 1987–1992 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ 1992–1996 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ 1996–2001 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ 2001–2002 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ 2002–2004 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | 1992 flag of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Afghan independence
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ blood shed for freedom ⓘ hope and prosperity ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Islamic State of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kingdom of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInProportion |
1:2
ⓘ
3:5 ⓘ |
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 Afghanistan Description of subject: The Flag of Afghanistan is a tricolour national flag historically featuring vertical bands—most recently black, red, and green—with a central emblem that has changed with successive Afghan governments and regimes.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emblem of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic)
this entity surface form:
Flag of Afghanistan (2004–2021)
this entity surface form:
Flag of Afghanistan (1930–1973)
subject surface form:
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
this entity surface form:
flag of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
this entity surface form:
Afghan national flag