Flag of the United Nations
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The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United Nations flag | 9 |
| United Nations emblem | 5 |
| Emblem of the United Nations | 3 |
| Flag of the United Nations canonical | 3 |
| emblem of the United Nations | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17196 — 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 the United Nations Context triple: [United Nations, flag, Flag of the United Nations]
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A.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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B.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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C.
United Nations Headquarters
The United Nations Headquarters is the main administrative and diplomatic center of the UN, where representatives of member states convene to discuss and address global issues.
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D.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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E.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
- 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 the United Nations Target entity description: The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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A.
Grand Union Flag
The Grand Union Flag was the first national flag of the United States, combining the British Union Jack with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies during the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
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B.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 that brings together most of the world’s countries to promote peace, security, cooperation, and human rights.
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C.
United Nations Headquarters
The United Nations Headquarters is the main administrative and diplomatic center of the UN, where representatives of member states convene to discuss and address global issues.
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D.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner is a patriotic American song, with lyrics written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, that celebrates the resilience of the U.S. flag and is traditionally performed at public and sporting events.
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E.
United States of America
The United States of America is a large federal republic in North America known for its global political, economic, military, and cultural influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
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international organization flag ⓘ national symbol ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | United Nations ⓘ |
| adoptionBody | United Nations General Assembly ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1947-10-20 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio |
2:3
ⓘ
3:5 ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | light blue ⓘ |
| branchCount | 2 ⓘ |
| branchPosition | encircling the world map ⓘ |
| branchType | olive branches ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of international organizations
ⓘ
United Nations symbols ⓘ |
| country | United Nations ⓘ |
| designBasedOn |
Flag of the United Nations
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Emblem of the United Nations
|
| designDate | 1945-04 ⓘ |
| designedFor |
San Francisco Conference
ⓘ
surface form:
United Nations Conference on International Organization
|
| designers |
Donal McLaughlin
ⓘ
team of designers for the UN emblem ⓘ |
| emblemColor | white ⓘ |
| features |
olive branches
ⓘ
world map ⓘ |
| fieldColor | azure ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | emblem used at the 1945 San Francisco Conference ⓘ |
| ISOStandardReference | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code "UN" for entity represented ⓘ |
| mapCenter |
Arctic region
ⓘ
surface form:
North Pole
|
| mapCoverage |
all inhabited continents
ⓘ
major latitude circles ⓘ |
| mapProjection | azimuthal equidistant projection ⓘ |
| protocol |
flown with flags of member states at UN Headquarters
ⓘ
takes precedence at UN premises over national flags ⓘ |
| status | official flag of the United Nations ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
friendship among nations
ⓘ
global unity ⓘ international cooperation ⓘ security ⓘ world peace ⓘ |
| UNResolutionNumber | A/RES/167(II) ⓘ |
| usage |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedAt |
United Nations Headquarters
ⓘ
missions of UN member states ⓘ offices of United Nations agencies ⓘ peacekeeping operations ⓘ |
| usedBy |
UN observer missions
ⓘ
UN peacekeepers ⓘ United Nations Economic and Social Council ⓘ
surface form:
UN specialized agencies
|
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 the United Nations Description of subject: The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Emblem of the United Nations
this entity surface form:
Emblem of the United Nations
this entity surface form:
Emblem of the United Nations
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
emblem of the United Nations
this entity surface form:
emblem of the United Nations
this entity surface form:
United Nations emblem
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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usesEmblem
→
Flag of the United Nations
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subject surface form:
MONUSCO
this entity surface form:
United Nations emblem
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
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symbol
→
Flag of the United Nations
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations emblem
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations emblem
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan
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symbol
→
Flag of the United Nations
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this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag
this entity surface form:
United Nations emblem
this entity surface form:
United Nations flag