Flag of Cameroon
E263752
The Flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a central yellow star, symbolizing the nation's unity and Pan-African identity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Cameroon canonical | 1 |
| Flag of Cameroon (1961–1975) | 1 |
| flag of Cameroon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2399139 — 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 Cameroon Context triple: [Embassy of Cameroon in Washington, D.C., usesFlag, Flag of Cameroon]
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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 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 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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D.
Flag of Liberia
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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E.
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.
- 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 Cameroon Target entity description: The Flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a central yellow star, symbolizing the nation's unity and Pan-African identity.
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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 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 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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D.
Flag of Liberia
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1975-05-20 ⓘ |
| adoptionEvent | proclamation of the unitary state of Cameroon ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Cameroon ⓘ |
| centralEmblem | yellow five-pointed star ⓘ |
| colorMeaningGreen |
agriculture
ⓘ
forest of southern Cameroon ⓘ |
| colorMeaningRed |
independence struggle
ⓘ
unity ⓘ |
| colorMeaningYellow |
savannas of northern Cameroon
ⓘ
sun ⓘ |
| colorScheme | Pan-African tricolor ⓘ |
| continentOfCountry | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Cameroon ⓘ |
| designType | vertical tricolor ⓘ |
| emblemType | star ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Pan-African colors ⓘ |
| isOn |
Cameroonian embassies abroad
ⓘ
state buildings in Cameroon ⓘ |
| leftStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| middleStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 3 ⓘ |
| officialIn |
Cameroon
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Cameroon
|
| previousDesign |
Flag of Cameroon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Cameroon (1961–1975)
|
| previousDesignFeature | two yellow stars in green stripe ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| represents |
sovereignty of Cameroon
ⓘ
territorial integrity of Cameroon ⓘ |
| rightStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| sharesColorsWith |
Ethiopian flag
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Ethiopia
|
| starColor | yellow ⓘ |
| starCount | 1 ⓘ |
| starMeaning | unitary state ⓘ |
| starPosition | center of red stripe ⓘ |
| status | current national flag of Cameroon ⓘ |
| stripeOrientation | vertical ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Cameroon
ⓘ
Pan-African identity ⓘ national unity ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Cameroonian Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
Cameroonian armed forces
Government of Cameroon ⓘ civil population of Cameroon ⓘ |
| usesColor |
green
ⓘ
red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
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 Cameroon Description of subject: The Flag of Cameroon is a vertical tricolor of green, red, and yellow with a central yellow star, symbolizing the nation's unity and Pan-African identity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
flag of Cameroon
this entity surface form:
Flag of Cameroon (1961–1975)