flag of Benin
E633027
The flag of Benin is a tricolor national flag featuring a vertical green band at the hoist and horizontal yellow and red bands, symbolizing hope, wealth, and courage for the West African nation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| flag of Benin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6948127 — 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 Benin Context triple: [Ethiopian flag, influencedFlag, flag of Benin]
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A.
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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B.
flag of Guinea
The flag of Guinea is a vertical tricolor of red, yellow, and green that reflects Pan-African symbolism and resembles the flag of Mali with its color order reversed.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
flag of Guinea-Bissau
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.
- 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 Benin Target entity description: The flag of Benin is a tricolor national flag featuring a vertical green band at the hoist and horizontal yellow and red bands, symbolizing hope, wealth, and courage for the West African nation.
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A.
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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B.
flag of Guinea
The flag of Guinea is a vertical tricolor of red, yellow, and green that reflects Pan-African symbolism and resembles the flag of Mali with its color order reversed.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
flag of Guinea-Bissau
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1990-08-01 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| capitalOfCountry | Porto-Novo ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Benin ⓘ Tricolour flags ⓘ |
| color |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Benin ⓘ |
| design | vertical green band at the hoist with horizontal yellow and red bands on the fly side ⓘ |
| firstAdoptedOn | 1959-11-16 ⓘ |
| governmentSeatCountry | Cotonou ⓘ |
| introducedBeforeIndependenceOf | Benin ⓘ |
| introducedWhenCountryWasNamed |
Republic of Dahomey
ⓘ
linked to:
Colony of Dahomey
|
| legalStatus | defined by law of Benin ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry | French ⓘ |
| pattern | vertical tricolour with one vertical and two horizontal bands ⓘ |
| predecessor | flag of the People’s Republic of Benin ⓘ |
| predecessorUsedFrom | 1975 ⓘ |
| predecessorUsedUntil | 1990 ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| readoptedOn | 1990-08-01 ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| relatedTo | coat of arms of Benin ⓘ |
| side |
fly side has horizontal yellow and red bands
ⓘ
hoist side has vertical green band ⓘ |
| status | current national flag of Benin ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
courage
ⓘ
hope ⓘ the blood of ancestors ⓘ the palm groves ⓘ the savannah ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| type | horizontal and vertical tricolour combination ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
ensign ⓘ state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Republic of Benin
ⓘ
linked to:
Benin
|
| usedInContext |
Beninese embassies and consulates abroad
ⓘ
government buildings in Benin ⓘ international organizations to represent Benin ⓘ |
| writingDirectionOfDesign | left-to-right from hoist to fly ⓘ |
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 Benin Description of subject: The flag of Benin is a tricolor national flag featuring a vertical green band at the hoist and horizontal yellow and red bands, symbolizing hope, wealth, and courage for the West African nation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.