flag of Sierra Leone
E142814
The flag of Sierra Leone is a horizontal tricolor of green, white, and blue that symbolizes the country’s natural resources, unity and justice, and its coastal location along the Atlantic Ocean.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Sierra Leone canonical | 2 |
| Flag of Sierra Leone | 1 |
| Sierra Leone national flag and arms ordinance | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225337 — 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 Sierra Leone Context triple: [Sierra Leone, hasNationalSymbol, flag of Sierra Leone]
-
A.
Flag of Ghana
The Flag of Ghana is a horizontal tricolour of red, gold, and green with a black five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing the country's struggle for independence, mineral wealth, rich forests, and African freedom.
-
B.
coat of arms of Sierra Leone
The coat of arms of Sierra Leone is the national emblem featuring a shield with lions, a green landscape, and a rising sun, flanked by lions and supported by the national motto “Unity, Freedom, Justice.”
-
C.
Flag of Nigeria
The Flag of Nigeria is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and green symbolizing the nation’s agricultural wealth and peace, and serving as a central emblem of Nigerian identity.
-
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.
-
E.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
- 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 Sierra Leone Target entity description: The flag of Sierra Leone is a horizontal tricolor of green, white, and blue that symbolizes the country’s natural resources, unity and justice, and its coastal location along the Atlantic Ocean.
-
A.
Flag of Ghana
The Flag of Ghana is a horizontal tricolour of red, gold, and green with a black five-pointed star in the center, symbolizing the country's struggle for independence, mineral wealth, rich forests, and African freedom.
-
B.
coat of arms of Sierra Leone
The coat of arms of Sierra Leone is the national emblem featuring a shield with lions, a green landscape, and a rising sun, flanked by lions and supported by the national motto “Unity, Freedom, Justice.”
-
C.
Flag of Nigeria
The Flag of Nigeria is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and green symbolizing the nation’s agricultural wealth and peace, and serving as a central emblem of Nigerian identity.
-
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.
-
E.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
flag
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1961-04-27 ⓘ |
| adoptionOccasion | independence of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| blueRepresents |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Freetown harbor ⓘ
linked to:
Port of Freetown
|
| blueSymbolismDetail | natural harbor of Freetown ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | blue ⓘ |
| capitalCityAssociated | Freetown ⓘ |
| category | Flags of African countries ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolor ⓘ |
| greenRepresents |
agriculture
ⓘ
mountains ⓘ |
| greenSymbolismDetail | agricultural and mineral wealth ⓘ |
| hasNo | coat of arms on main national flag ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Government of Sierra Leone in 1961
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Sierra Leone
|
| isSimilarTo |
flag of Estonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Estonia
flag of Uzbekistan ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Uzbekistan
|
| legalBasis |
Sierra Leone national flag and arms ordinance
ⓘ
linked to:
flag of Sierra Leone
|
| middleStripeColor | white ⓘ |
| officialStatus | national symbol of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| replaced | British colonial flag of Sierra Leone ⓘ |
| stripeOrderTopToBottom | green-white-blue ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
coastal location along the Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
justice ⓘ natural resources ⓘ unity ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Sierra Leone
ⓘ
civil population ⓘ |
| usesColor |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ white ⓘ |
| whiteRepresents |
justice
ⓘ
unity ⓘ |
| whiteSymbolismDetail | desire for 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 Sierra Leone Description of subject: The flag of Sierra Leone is a horizontal tricolor of green, white, and blue that symbolizes the country’s natural resources, unity and justice, and its coastal location along the Atlantic Ocean.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: flag of Sierra Leone
linked to: flag of Sierra Leone