Flag of Uganda
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The Flag of Uganda is a horizontal tricolour of black, yellow, and red stripes with a central white disc featuring a grey crowned crane, symbolizing the nation’s people, sunshine, and brotherhood.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Uganda canonical | 6 |
| Flag of the Uganda People’s Congress | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3096753 — 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 Uganda Context triple: [President of Uganda, symbol, Flag of Uganda]
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A.
Flag of Kenya
The Flag of Kenya is a national symbol featuring black, red, and green horizontal stripes with white fimbriations and a central Maasai shield and spears, representing the country's people, struggle for independence, and rich natural heritage.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
Flag of the African Union
The Flag of the African Union is a green field featuring a golden map of Africa encircled by stylized rays and stars, symbolizing African unity, hope, and solidarity among member states.
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E.
Flag of Cameroon
The Flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a central yellow star, symbolizing the nation's unity and Pan-African identity.
- 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 Uganda Target entity description: The Flag of Uganda is a horizontal tricolour of black, yellow, and red stripes with a central white disc featuring a grey crowned crane, symbolizing the nation’s people, sunshine, and brotherhood.
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A.
Flag of Kenya
The Flag of Kenya is a national symbol featuring black, red, and green horizontal stripes with white fimbriations and a central Maasai shield and spears, representing the country's people, struggle for independence, and rich natural heritage.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
Flag of the African Union
The Flag of the African Union is a green field featuring a golden map of Africa encircled by stylized rays and stars, symbolizing African unity, hope, and solidarity among member states.
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E.
Flag of Cameroon
The Flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a central yellow star, symbolizing the nation's unity and Pan-African identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1962-10-09 ⓘ |
| adoptionOccasion | Uganda independence from the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| category |
Flags introduced in 1962
ⓘ
Flags of Africa ⓘ National symbols of Uganda ⓘ |
| country | Uganda ⓘ |
| craneSymbolism |
elegance
ⓘ
gentleness ⓘ national symbol of Uganda ⓘ vigilance ⓘ |
| designedBy | Grace Ibingira ⓘ |
| designerOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| designerPoliticalAffiliation | Uganda People’s Congress ⓘ |
| emblemLegPosition | one leg raised ⓘ |
| emblemOrientation | crane faces the hoist ⓘ |
| featuresAnimal | grey crowned crane ⓘ |
| hasCentralDiscColor | white ⓘ |
| hasCentralEmblem | grey crowned crane ⓘ |
| hasDesign | horizontal tricolour of black, yellow, and red stripes ⓘ |
| hasSide | obverse and reverse identical ⓘ |
| hasStripeCount | 6 ⓘ |
| hasStripePattern | black-yellow-red-black-yellow-red ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
flag of the Uganda People’s Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
flag of Uganda
|
| isSimilarTo |
Flag of the Uganda People’s Congress
ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Uganda
|
| legalStatus | defined in the Constitution of Uganda ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
African sunshine
ⓘ
brotherhood ⓘ people of Uganda ⓘ |
| symbolizesColorMeaning |
black represents the people of Uganda
ⓘ
red represents brotherhood and the blood that unites Africans ⓘ yellow represents sunshine ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Uganda
ⓘ
President of Uganda ⓘ Ugandan diplomatic missions ⓘ |
| usesColor |
black
ⓘ
grey ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
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 Uganda Description of subject: The Flag of Uganda is a horizontal tricolour of black, yellow, and red stripes with a central white disc featuring a grey crowned crane, symbolizing the nation’s people, sunshine, and brotherhood.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Uganda