Flag of Rwanda
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The Flag of Rwanda is a national flag featuring blue, yellow, and green horizontal bands with a golden sun, symbolizing peace, economic development, and hope for the country's future.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Rwanda canonical | 1 |
| flag of Rwanda | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9285110 — 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 Rwanda Context triple: [President of Rwanda, symbol, Flag of Rwanda]
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A.
Flag of Uganda
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Botswana
The Flag of Botswana is a light blue field with a horizontal black stripe bordered in white, symbolizing water, racial harmony, and national unity.
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D.
Flag of Namibia
The Flag of Namibia is the national flag featuring a diagonal tricolor of blue, red, and green with white borders and a golden sun, symbolizing the country’s natural resources, people, and hope for the future.
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E.
Flag of Buganda
The Flag of Buganda is the traditional banner representing the Buganda Kingdom in Uganda, featuring distinctive horizontal stripes and the kingdom’s emblem that symbolize its cultural identity and monarchy.
- 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 Rwanda Target entity description: The Flag of Rwanda is a national flag featuring blue, yellow, and green horizontal bands with a golden sun, symbolizing peace, economic development, and hope for the country's future.
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A.
Flag of Uganda
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Botswana
The Flag of Botswana is a light blue field with a horizontal black stripe bordered in white, symbolizing water, racial harmony, and national unity.
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D.
Flag of Namibia
The Flag of Namibia is the national flag featuring a diagonal tricolor of blue, red, and green with white borders and a golden sun, symbolizing the country’s natural resources, people, and hope for the future.
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E.
Flag of Buganda
The Flag of Buganda is the traditional banner representing the Buganda Kingdom in Uganda, featuring distinctive horizontal stripes and the kingdom’s emblem that symbolize its cultural identity and monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedBy |
Republic of Rwanda
ⓘ
linked to:
Rwanda
|
| adoptedOn | 2001-10-25 ⓘ |
| blueBandName | sky blue ⓘ |
| blueSymbolism | peace and happiness ⓘ |
| bottomBandColor | green ⓘ |
| bottomBandWidth | one quarter of flag height ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Rwanda ⓘ |
| country | Rwanda ⓘ |
| design | three horizontal bands ⓘ |
| designedBy | Alphonse Kirimobenecyo ⓘ |
| ensignType |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| feature | golden sun ⓘ |
| greenBandPosition | bottom ⓘ |
| greenSymbolism | hope and prosperity ⓘ |
| introducedTo | replace previous national flag ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Rwandan law establishing national symbols ⓘ |
| middleBandColor | yellow ⓘ |
| middleBandWidth | one quarter of flag height ⓘ |
| officialStatus | current national flag of Rwanda ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| reasonForChange | dissociate national symbols from genocide legacy ⓘ |
| replaced | former flag of Rwanda (1962–2001) ⓘ |
| sunColor | gold ⓘ |
| sunPosition | upper fly-side corner ⓘ |
| sunShape | 24-rayed sun ⓘ |
| sunSymbolism | enlightenment ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
economic development
ⓘ
hope for the future ⓘ national unity ⓘ peace ⓘ |
| topBandColor | blue ⓘ |
| topBandWidth | half of flag height ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Rwandan armed forces
ⓘ
linked to:
Rwandan Armed Forces
Rwandan embassies ⓘ government of Rwanda ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Rwanda
|
| usedSince | 2001 ⓘ |
| usesColor |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ green ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| yellowBandPosition | center ⓘ |
| yellowSymbolism | economic development ⓘ |
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 Rwanda Description of subject: The Flag of Rwanda is a national flag featuring blue, yellow, and green horizontal bands with a golden sun, symbolizing peace, economic development, and hope for the country's future.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Rwanda