Flag of Liberia
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Liberia canonical | 3 |
| Liberian flag | 1 |
| flag of Liberia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1904931 — 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 Liberia Context triple: [President of Liberia, symbol, Flag of Liberia]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Grenada
The Flag of Grenada is a colorful national flag featuring a red-bordered yellow and green field with a central star, six surrounding stars, and a nutmeg symbol representing the country’s key spice and its island parishes.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
The Flag of Antigua and Barbuda is a distinctive national flag featuring a rising golden sun over black, blue, and white bands with red side panels, symbolizing the dawn of a new era, African heritage, the Caribbean Sea, and hope.
- 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 Liberia Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Flag of Grenada
The Flag of Grenada is a colorful national flag featuring a red-bordered yellow and green field with a central star, six surrounding stars, and a nutmeg symbol representing the country’s key spice and its island parishes.
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D.
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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E.
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda
The Flag of Antigua and Barbuda is a distinctive national flag featuring a rising golden sun over black, blue, and white bands with red side panels, symbolizing the dawn of a new era, African heritage, the Caribbean Sea, and hope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1847-08-24 ⓘ |
| cantonColor | blue ⓘ |
| capitalOfCountry | Monrovia ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Liberia ⓘ |
| colorMeaningBlue | loyalty ⓘ |
| colorMeaningRed | courage ⓘ |
| colorMeaningWhite | moral excellence ⓘ |
| continentOfCountry | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Liberia ⓘ |
| designedBy | Committee of Liberian women ⓘ |
| firstHoistedIn | Monrovia ⓘ |
| governmentBodyResponsible | Government of Liberia ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 10:19 ⓘ |
| hasCanton | yes ⓘ |
| hasDesignElement |
blue canton with white star
ⓘ
horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Lone Star ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
United States flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the United States
|
| introducedWith | Liberian Declaration of Independence era ⓘ |
| legalStatus | defined in Liberian law ⓘ |
| numberOfStars | 1 ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 11 ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOfDescription | English ⓘ |
| proportion | 10:19 ⓘ |
| region | West Africa ⓘ |
| represents |
Liberia
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Liberia
|
| similarTo |
United States flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the United States
|
| starColor | white ⓘ |
| starMeaning | single white star represents Liberia as the first independent Western-style republic in Africa ⓘ |
| starShape | five-pointed star ⓘ |
| stripeColor |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| stripeMeaning | 11 stripes represent the 11 signers of the Liberian Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Liberia as Africa’s first modern republic
ⓘ
Liberia’s founding by freed African-American and Caribbean slaves ⓘ freedom ⓘ independence ⓘ sovereignty ⓘ the signers of the Liberian Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfIntroduction | 19th century ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Liberia
ⓘ
Liberian merchant ships ⓘ |
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 Liberia Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Liberian flag
this entity surface form:
flag of Liberia