Coat of arms of Germany
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The Coat of arms of Germany is the national emblem featuring a black eagle on a golden shield, symbolizing German sovereignty and unity.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T454705 — 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: Coat of arms of Germany Context triple: [President of Germany, insignia, Coat of arms of Germany]
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A.
Coat of arms of Belgium
The Coat of arms of Belgium is the official heraldic emblem of the Belgian state, featuring a crowned lion, national motto, and royal symbols representing the country's monarchy and unity.
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B.
Flag of Nazi Germany
The Flag of Nazi Germany was the red banner featuring a white circle with a black swastika at its center, symbolizing the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.
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C.
Habsburg coat of arms
The Habsburg coat of arms is the heraldic emblem of the Habsburg dynasty, symbolizing its imperial authority and long-standing rule over vast territories in Central and Western Europe.
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D.
Flag of the Weimar Republic
The Flag of the Weimar Republic was the black-red-gold tricolour used by Germany’s democratic government between World War I and the rise of the Nazi regime.
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E.
Greater coat of arms of Sweden
The Greater coat of arms of Sweden is the country's most elaborate national emblem, featuring the royal arms with quartered shields, heraldic supporters, and the royal crown, used primarily by the monarch and in high state contexts.
- 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: Coat of arms of Germany Target entity description: The Coat of arms of Germany is the national emblem featuring a black eagle on a golden shield, symbolizing German sovereignty and unity.
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A.
Coat of arms of Belgium
The Coat of arms of Belgium is the official heraldic emblem of the Belgian state, featuring a crowned lion, national motto, and royal symbols representing the country's monarchy and unity.
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B.
Flag of Nazi Germany
The Flag of Nazi Germany was the red banner featuring a white circle with a black swastika at its center, symbolizing the totalitarian and genocidal regime of Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.
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C.
Habsburg coat of arms
The Habsburg coat of arms is the heraldic emblem of the Habsburg dynasty, symbolizing its imperial authority and long-standing rule over vast territories in Central and Western Europe.
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D.
Flag of the Weimar Republic
The Flag of the Weimar Republic was the black-red-gold tricolour used by Germany’s democratic government between World War I and the rise of the Nazi regime.
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E.
Greater coat of arms of Sweden
The Greater coat of arms of Sweden is the country's most elaborate national emblem, featuring the royal arms with quartered shields, heraldic supporters, and the royal crown, used primarily by the monarch and in high state contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
national coat of arms
ⓘ
national emblem ⓘ |
| adopted | 1950 ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Federal Government of Germany ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bundesadler (Federal Eagle)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bundesadler
Flag of the Weimar Republic ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Germany
|
| backgroundColor | gold ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Reichsadler
ⓘ
Coat of arms of Germany self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Weimar coat of arms
|
| beakColor | red ⓘ |
| category |
German heraldry
ⓘ
National symbols of Germany ⓘ |
| clawColor | red ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| depicts |
black eagle
ⓘ
eagle ⓘ |
| design | black eagle on golden shield ⓘ |
| eagleColor | black ⓘ |
| fieldColor | golden ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Coat of arms of Germany
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
greater coat of arms of Germany
Coat of arms of Germany self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
lesser coat of arms of Germany
Coat of arms of Germany self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
middle coat of arms of Germany
|
| heraldicTincture |
gules
ⓘ
or ⓘ sable ⓘ |
| legalStatus | protected national symbol ⓘ |
| motto | no official motto ⓘ |
| orientation | eagle displayed ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | German law ⓘ |
| represents |
German people
ⓘ
German state ⓘ |
| shieldColor | golden ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
German sovereignty
ⓘ
German unity ⓘ |
| tongueColor | red ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Bundesrat
ⓘ
Bundestag ⓘ Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ⓘ Germany ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Germany
German federal ministries ⓘ
surface form:
Federal ministries of Germany
German federal authorities ⓘ |
| usedOn |
German passports
ⓘ
federal government buildings ⓘ official documents of Germany ⓘ official seals of German authorities ⓘ |
| usedSince | Middle Ages (as imperial eagle predecessor) ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Coat of arms of Germany Description of subject: The Coat of arms of Germany is the national emblem featuring a black eagle on a golden shield, symbolizing German sovereignty and unity.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
German federal eagle
this entity surface form:
Weimar coat of arms
this entity surface form:
greater coat of arms of Germany
this entity surface form:
middle coat of arms of Germany
this entity surface form:
lesser coat of arms of Germany
this entity surface form:
Imperial coat of arms of the German Empire
this entity surface form:
Imperial German coat of arms
subject surface form:
Bundesadler
this entity surface form:
coat of arms of Germany
subject surface form:
Bundesadler
this entity surface form:
Bundeswappen
subject surface form:
Bundesadler
this entity surface form:
Weimar Republic coat of arms
this entity surface form:
coat of arms of the German Empire
this entity surface form:
coat of arms of Germany
this entity surface form:
coat of arms of Germany
this entity surface form:
coat of arms of Germany