flag of Guinea-Bissau
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The flag of Guinea-Bissau is a Pan-African tricolour featuring red, yellow, and green with a black star, symbolizing African unity and the country’s struggle for independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Guinea-Bissau canonical | 2 |
| flag of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6307670 — 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 Guinea-Bissau Context triple: [Flag of Ghana, influenced, flag of Guinea-Bissau]
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A.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
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B.
Flag of Liberia
The Flag of Liberia is a national flag featuring red and white stripes with a single white star on a blue square, reflecting the country's historical ties to the United States and its identity as Africa’s first modern republic.
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C.
Flag of French Equatorial Africa
The Flag of French Equatorial Africa was the colonial-era banner used to represent the federation of French territories in Central Africa under French rule.
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D.
Flag of Guadeloupe
The Flag of Guadeloupe is a regional emblem often featuring a golden sun and sugarcane on a red field beneath a blue stripe with three fleurs-de-lis, symbolizing the island’s Caribbean identity and French heritage.
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E.
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.
- 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 Guinea-Bissau Target entity description: The flag of Guinea-Bissau is a Pan-African tricolour featuring red, yellow, and green with a black star, symbolizing African unity and the country’s struggle for independence.
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A.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
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B.
Flag of Liberia
The Flag of Liberia is a national flag featuring red and white stripes with a single white star on a blue square, reflecting the country's historical ties to the United States and its identity as Africa’s first modern republic.
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C.
Flag of French Equatorial Africa
The Flag of French Equatorial Africa was the colonial-era banner used to represent the federation of French territories in Central Africa under French rule.
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D.
Flag of Guadeloupe
The Flag of Guadeloupe is a regional emblem often featuring a golden sun and sugarcane on a red field beneath a blue stripe with three fleurs-de-lis, symbolizing the island’s Caribbean identity and French heritage.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionContext | independence from Portugal ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1973 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
flag of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
ⓘ
linked to:
flag of Guinea-Bissau
|
| bottomStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| capitalCityCountry | Bissau ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Guinea-Bissau ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| colorScheme | Pan-African colours ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Guinea-Bissau ⓘ |
| design | vertical red stripe at the hoist and two horizontal stripes of yellow and green ⓘ |
| emblem | black star of Africa ⓘ |
| feature | black five-pointed star ⓘ |
| governmentSymbol | yes ⓘ |
| hoistStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | flag of Ghana ⓘ |
| introducedBy | African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry | Portuguese ⓘ |
| patternType | tricolour ⓘ |
| proportion | 1:2 ⓘ |
| relatedFlag | flag of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ⓘ |
| represents |
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
ⓘ
linked to:
Guinea-Bissau
|
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| side | obverse and reverse identical ⓘ |
| starColor | black ⓘ |
| starPosition | centered in the red vertical stripe ⓘ |
| starRepresents | unity of Africa ⓘ |
| status | current national flag ⓘ |
| symbolism |
African people
ⓘ
African unity ⓘ Pan-Africanism ⓘ agriculture and forests ⓘ blood shed for independence ⓘ hope and natural resources ⓘ struggle for independence ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| usage |
civil ensign
ⓘ
national flag ⓘ state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil population of Guinea-Bissau
ⓘ
government of Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Guinea-Bissau
|
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 Guinea-Bissau Description of subject: The flag of Guinea-Bissau is a Pan-African tricolour featuring red, yellow, and green with a black star, symbolizing African unity and the country’s struggle for independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: flag of Guinea-Bissau