Flag of Namibia
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The Flag of Namibia is the national flag featuring a diagonal tricolor of blue, red, and green with white borders and a golden sun, symbolizing the country’s natural resources, people, and hope for the future.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Namibia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3896406 — 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 Namibia Context triple: [Prime Minister of Namibia, flagUsed, Flag of Namibia]
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Flag of the South African Republic
The Flag of the South African Republic was the national banner of the Boer-ruled Transvaal republic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, symbolizing its independence before incorporation into the British Empire.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Namibia Target entity description: The Flag of Namibia is the national flag featuring a diagonal tricolor of blue, red, and green with white borders and a golden sun, symbolizing the country’s natural resources, people, and hope for the future.
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A.
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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B.
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.
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C.
Flag of the South African Republic
The Flag of the South African Republic was the national banner of the Boer-ruled Transvaal republic in the 19th and early 20th centuries, symbolizing its independence before incorporation into the British Empire.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1990-03-21 ⓘ |
| adoptionContext | independence of Namibia ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 2:3 ⓘ |
| borderColour | white ⓘ |
| borderPosition | along both sides of the red diagonal band ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Namibia ⓘ |
| centralBandColour | red ⓘ |
| centralBandOrientation | diagonal ⓘ |
| colour |
blue
ⓘ
gold ⓘ green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Namibia ⓘ |
| designerSelectionProcess | national competition ⓘ |
| designFeature | diagonal tricolour ⓘ |
| emblem | golden sun ⓘ |
| emblemPosition | upper hoist-side blue triangle ⓘ |
| emblemShape | sun with rays ⓘ |
| featuredOn |
Coat of arms of Namibia
ⓘ
surface form:
coat of arms of Namibia
|
| fieldDivision | diagonal from lower hoist-side to upper fly-side ⓘ |
| legalStatus | official national symbol of Namibia ⓘ |
| lowerTriangleColour | green ⓘ |
| numberOfSunRays | 12 ⓘ |
| predecessor | Flag of South West Africa (colonial-era flags) ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| symbolismBlue |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
marine resources ⓘ sky ⓘ |
| symbolismGoldSun |
energy
ⓘ
hope for the future ⓘ life ⓘ warmth of the sun ⓘ |
| symbolismGreen |
agricultural resources
ⓘ
vegetation ⓘ |
| symbolismRed |
determination to build a future
ⓘ
heroism ⓘ people of Namibia ⓘ |
| symbolismWhite |
peace
ⓘ
unity ⓘ |
| upperTriangleColour | blue ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Namibia
ⓘ
Namibian Defence Force ⓘ Namibian public ⓘ |
| usedOn |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
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 Namibia Description of subject: The Flag of Namibia is the national flag featuring a diagonal tricolor of blue, red, and green with white borders and a golden sun, symbolizing the country’s natural resources, people, and hope for the future.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.