Flag of Nigeria
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Nigeria canonical | 5 |
| Nigerian flag | 1 |
| flag of Nigeria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T441531 — 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 Nigeria Context triple: [Arise, O Compatriots, associatedWith, Flag of Nigeria]
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A.
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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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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D.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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E.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
- 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 Nigeria Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Flag of the United Nations
The Flag of the United Nations is a light blue banner featuring a white world map surrounded by olive branches, symbolizing global peace and international cooperation.
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C.
Flag of Ceylon
The Flag of Ceylon was the national flag used by the British Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from independence in 1948 until the country became a republic in 1972.
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D.
Flag of Poland
The Flag of Poland is a simple national banner consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width, white on top and red on the bottom, symbolizing the country’s historic heraldic colors.
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E.
Flag of the Organization of American States
The Flag of the Organization of American States features the OAS emblem—an array of member states’ flags arranged in a circular pattern—on a solid blue field, symbolizing unity and cooperation among the countries of the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1960-10-01 ⓘ |
| adoptionEvent | Nigerian independence from the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1:2 ⓘ |
| capitalCityCountry | Abuja ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Nigeria ⓘ |
| continentCountry | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| design | vertical tricolour ⓘ |
| designer | Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi ⓘ |
| designSelectionMethod | national flag design competition ⓘ |
| firstOfficialUse | 1960 ⓘ |
| flankedByStripes |
green on fly side
ⓘ
green on hoist side ⓘ |
| greenStripeMeaning | agriculture and natural wealth ⓘ |
| hasCentralStripe | white ⓘ |
| hasColor |
green
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasNoCoatOfArmsOnStandardVersion | true ⓘ |
| isDisplayedAt | United Nations alongside other member states’ flags ⓘ |
| isDisplayedOn |
Independence Day of Nigeria
ⓘ
Nigerian national holidays ⓘ |
| ISO3166CountryCode |
.ng
ⓘ
surface form:
NG
|
| isSimilarTo |
flag of Ivory Coast
ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Côte d’Ivoire
Irish tricolour ⓘ
surface form:
Flag of Ireland
|
| isVerticalTricolour | true ⓘ |
| legalStatus | protected national symbol of Nigeria ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry | English ⓘ |
| proportionWidthToLength | 1:2 ⓘ |
| regulatingAuthority | Government of Nigeria ⓘ |
| replaced | flag of British colonial Nigeria ⓘ |
| represents |
sovereignty of Nigeria
ⓘ
unity of Nigerian people ⓘ |
| stripeCount | 3 ⓘ |
| stripeOrder | green-white-green ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
agricultural wealth
ⓘ
national identity ⓘ peace ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Nigeria
ⓘ
surface form:
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ⓘ
surface form:
Nigerian Armed Forces
Nigerian government institutions ⓘ |
| usedOn |
Nigerian embassies and consulates
ⓘ
Nigerian official documents ⓘ government buildings in Nigeria ⓘ |
| whiteStripeMeaning | peace and unity ⓘ |
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 Nigeria Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nigerian flag
this entity surface form:
flag of Nigeria