Flag of Sudan
E772360
The Flag of Sudan is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with a green triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Arab unity, Islam, and the country’s revolutionary history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Sudan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8992412 — 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 Sudan Context triple: [President of Sudan, symbol, Flag of Sudan]
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A.
Flag of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
The Flag of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was the colonial-era banner used from 1899 to 1956 to represent the joint British-Egyptian administration of Sudan.
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B.
Flag of Yemen
The Flag of Yemen is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black symbolizing unity and Arab identity, adopted after the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990.
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
- 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 Sudan Target entity description: The Flag of Sudan is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with a green triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Arab unity, Islam, and the country’s revolutionary history.
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A.
Flag of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
The Flag of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was the colonial-era banner used from 1899 to 1956 to represent the joint British-Egyptian administration of Sudan.
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B.
Flag of Yemen
The Flag of Yemen is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black symbolizing unity and Arab identity, adopted after the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990.
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Flag of Morocco
The Flag of Morocco is a red field with a green five-pointed star at its center, symbolizing the nation’s Islamic heritage and unity under the Alaouite monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1970-05-20 ⓘ |
| adoptionYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Sudanese embassies abroad
ⓘ
Sudanese official documents ⓘ government buildings in Sudan ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1:2 ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
Pan-Arab colors ⓘ |
| color |
black
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ white ⓘ |
| country | Sudan ⓘ |
| design | horizontal tricolor with a triangle at the hoist ⓘ |
| designer | Abd al-Rahman Ahmad al-Jali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature | green isosceles triangle at the hoist ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Pan-Arab tricolor flags ⓘ |
| introducedAfter | 1969 Sudanese coup d'état NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Jaafar Nimeiry government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Sudanese national flag law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialStatus | national symbol of Sudan ⓘ |
| orientation | horizontal stripes ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Coat of arms of Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replaced | Blue-yellow-green horizontal tricolor flag of Sudan (1956–1970) ⓘ |
| status | in use as of 2024 ⓘ |
| stripe |
bottom horizontal black stripe
ⓘ
middle horizontal white stripe ⓘ top horizontal red stripe ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Arab unity
ⓘ
Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Pan-Arab identity ⓘ Sudanese people and heritage (black) ⓘ agriculture and Islam (green) ⓘ martyrdom and struggle (red) ⓘ peace and optimism (white) ⓘ revolutionary history of Sudan ⓘ |
| triangleColor | green ⓘ |
| trianglePosition | hoist side ⓘ |
| usedAs |
civil flag
ⓘ
state flag ⓘ war flag ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Armed Forces of Sudan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Government of Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedSince | 1970 ⓘ |
| usesPanArabColors | true ⓘ |
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 Sudan Description of subject: The Flag of Sudan is a horizontal tricolor of red, white, and black with a green triangle at the hoist, symbolizing Arab unity, Islam, and the country’s revolutionary history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.