flag of Uganda
E831970
The flag of Uganda is a horizontal tricolor of black, yellow, and red 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 | 1 |
| flag of the Uganda People’s Congress | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9962007 — 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: [Flag of Belgium, isSimilarTo, flag of Uganda]
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A.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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B.
Riyom
Riyom is a town and local government area in Plateau State, central Nigeria, known for its distinctive rock formations and as a homeland of the Berom people.
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C.
Oluganda
Oluganda is the endonym for Luganda, a major Bantu language spoken primarily by the Baganda people in central Uganda.
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D.
Nzera
Nzera is a settlement located within Tanzania’s Geita Region in East Africa.
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E.
People’s Republic of Zanzibar
The People’s Republic of Zanzibar was a short-lived socialist state established after the 1964 revolution that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar, before it merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
- 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 tricolor of black, yellow, and red with a central white disc featuring a grey crowned crane, symbolizing the nation’s people, sunshine, and brotherhood.
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A.
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa known for its diverse landscapes, abundant wildlife, and location along the equator.
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B.
Riyom
Riyom is a town and local government area in Plateau State, central Nigeria, known for its distinctive rock formations and as a homeland of the Berom people.
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C.
Oluganda
Oluganda is the endonym for Luganda, a major Bantu language spoken primarily by the Baganda people in central Uganda.
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D.
Nzera
Nzera is a settlement located within Tanzania’s Geita Region in East Africa.
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E.
People’s Republic of Zanzibar
The People’s Republic of Zanzibar was a short-lived socialist state established after the 1964 revolution that overthrew the Sultanate of Zanzibar, before it merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1962-10-09 ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| blackStripeMeaning | people of Africa ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Uganda ⓘ |
| centralMotif | grey crowned crane in profile ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| country | Uganda ⓘ |
| craneLegPosition | one leg raised ⓘ |
| craneLegSymbolism | forward movement ⓘ |
| craneOrientation | facing hoist ⓘ |
| craneSpecies |
East African crowned crane
ⓘ
linked to:
grey crowned crane
|
| craneStatus | national bird of Uganda ⓘ |
| design | six horizontal stripes with central white disc and grey crowned crane ⓘ |
| designedBy | Grace Ibingira ⓘ |
| emblem | grey crowned crane ⓘ |
| emblemBackground | white disc ⓘ |
| emblemColor |
black
ⓘ
grey ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Ugandan legislation of 1962 ⓘ |
| precededBy |
flag of the Uganda Protectorate
ⓘ
linked to:
British Protectorate of Uganda
|
| redStripeMeaning | brotherhood of mankind ⓘ |
| status | current national flag ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 6 ⓘ |
| stripePattern | black-yellow-red-black-yellow-red ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
African heritage
ⓘ
brotherhood ⓘ elegance ⓘ national identity ⓘ people of Uganda ⓘ sunshine ⓘ unity ⓘ vigilance ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Uganda
ⓘ
civil authorities ⓘ military authorities ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Ugandan currency designs
ⓘ
Ugandan embassies abroad ⓘ Ugandan government documents ⓘ Ugandan military uniforms ⓘ public buildings in Uganda ⓘ |
| yellowStripeMeaning | sunshine of Africa ⓘ |
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 tricolor of black, yellow, and red with a central white disc featuring a grey crowned crane, symbolizing the nation’s people, sunshine, and brotherhood.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: flag of Uganda