Flag of Ghana
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Ghana canonical | 4 |
| Ghana national flag | 2 |
| Black Star of Africa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1154932 — 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 Ghana Context triple: [Ghana, nationalFlag, Flag of Ghana]
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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 Barbados
The Flag of Barbados is a vertical tricolour of ultramarine and gold featuring a black broken trident, symbolizing the nation’s independence and its connection to the sea.
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C.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
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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 Eritrea
The Flag of Eritrea is a distinctive tricolour of green, red, and blue with a gold olive wreath and branch emblem, symbolizing the nation’s struggle for independence, agricultural richness, and aspiration for peace.
- 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 Ghana Target entity description: 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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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 Barbados
The Flag of Barbados is a vertical tricolour of ultramarine and gold featuring a black broken trident, symbolizing the nation’s independence and its connection to the sea.
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C.
Flag of Haiti
The Flag of Haiti is a horizontal bicolor of blue and red bearing the country's coat of arms on a white panel, symbolizing the nation's struggle for independence and unity.
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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 Eritrea
The Flag of Eritrea is a distinctive tricolour of green, red, and blue with a gold olive wreath and branch emblem, symbolizing the nation’s struggle for independence, agricultural richness, and aspiration for peace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1957-03-06 ⓘ |
| adoptionEvent | independence of Ghana ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Ghana ⓘ |
| centralEmblem | black five-pointed star ⓘ |
| civilUse | civil flag ⓘ |
| colorMeaningGold | mineral wealth of Ghana ⓘ |
| colorMeaningGreen | rich forests and natural wealth ⓘ |
| colorMeaningRed | blood of those who died in the struggle for independence ⓘ |
| continentContext | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ghana ⓘ |
| designedBy | Theodosia Okoh ⓘ |
| designType | horizontal tricolour ⓘ |
| governmentUse | state flag ⓘ |
| hasColor |
gold
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | black five-pointed star ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
naval ensign of Ghana
ⓘ
presidential standard of Ghana ⓘ |
| influenced |
flag of Cameroon
ⓘ
flag of Guinea-Bissau ⓘ flag of São Tomé and Príncipe ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Ethiopian flag ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Kwame Nkrumah
ⓘ
surface form:
Kwame Nkrumah government
|
| isPanAfricanSymbol | true ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy |
African Union
ⓘ
United Nations ⓘ |
| legalDefinition | specified in Ghanaian law ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | gold ⓘ |
| officialStatus | national symbol ⓘ |
| previousVariant | flag with white middle stripe (1964–1966) ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| reintroducedOn | 1966 ⓘ |
| starColor | black ⓘ |
| starMeaning |
African emancipation
ⓘ
African unity ⓘ |
| starPoints | 5 ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 3 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
African freedom
ⓘ
mineral wealth ⓘ rich forests ⓘ struggle for independence ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Ghana
ⓘ
civil population of Ghana ⓘ |
| usesPanAfricanColors | true ⓘ |
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 Ghana Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ghana national flag
subject surface form:
Independence Day (Ghana)
this entity surface form:
Ghana national flag
this entity surface form:
Black Star of Africa