flag of Tanzania
E374035
The flag of Tanzania is a national flag featuring a diagonal design of green, black, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the country's land, people, and surrounding seas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of the United Republic of Tanzania | 1 |
| flag of Tanzania canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3612709 — 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 Tanzania Context triple: [coat of arms of Tanzania, associatedWith, flag of Tanzania]
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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.
coat of arms of Tanzania
The coat of arms of Tanzania is the national emblem featuring symbolic elements of the country's geography, culture, and history, prominently including its highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
- 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 Tanzania Target entity description: The flag of Tanzania is a national flag featuring a diagonal design of green, black, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the country's land, people, and surrounding seas.
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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.
coat of arms of Tanzania
The coat of arms of Tanzania is the national emblem featuring symbolic elements of the country's geography, culture, and history, prominently including its highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Flag of Djibouti
The Flag of Djibouti is a national flag featuring light blue and green horizontal bands with a white triangle at the hoist bearing a red five-pointed star, symbolizing unity, peace, and the country’s independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedAfter | union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1964-06-30 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
flag of Tanzania
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of the United Republic of Tanzania
|
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| basedOn |
flag of Tanganyika
ⓘ
flag of Zanzibar ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Tanzania ⓘ |
| colour |
black
ⓘ
blue ⓘ green ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| colourMeaningBlack | the people of Tanzania ⓘ |
| colourMeaningBlue | Indian Ocean and inland waters ⓘ |
| colourMeaningGreen | agriculture and natural vegetation ⓘ |
| colourMeaningYellow | mineral wealth ⓘ |
| continentOfCountry | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Tanzania ⓘ |
| design | diagonal tricolour with fimbriations ⓘ |
| feature |
black diagonal band
ⓘ
blue lower fly triangle ⓘ green upper hoist triangle ⓘ yellow fimbriations ⓘ |
| hasNo | coat of arms on field ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Tanzania
ⓘ
surface form:
United Republic of Tanzania
|
| legalStatus | official national symbol ⓘ |
| orientationOfBand | diagonal from lower hoist to upper fly ⓘ |
| precededBy |
British Tanganyika
ⓘ
surface form:
flag of Tanganyika
flag of Zanzibar ⓘ
surface form:
flag of Zanzibar Sultanate
|
| regulatesUse | Tanzanian law ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| status | in use ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Indian Ocean
ⓘ
lakes and coastal waters ⓘ land ⓘ national unity ⓘ natural resources ⓘ people of Tanzania ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil population
ⓘ
Government of Tanzania ⓘ
surface form:
government of Tanzania
state institutions ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Tanzanian embassies abroad
ⓘ
Tanzanian government vessels ⓘ public buildings in Tanzania ⓘ |
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 Tanzania Description of subject: The flag of Tanzania is a national flag featuring a diagonal design of green, black, blue, and yellow that symbolizes the country's land, people, and surrounding seas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flag of the United Republic of Tanzania