Flag of Mauritius
E621870
The Flag of Mauritius is a national flag featuring four horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow, and green, symbolizing the country's history, Indian Ocean setting, bright future, and lush landscape.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flag of Mauritius canonical | 1 |
| Flags of Mauritius | 1 |
| flag of Mauritius | 1 |
| war flag of Mauritius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6831241 — 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 Mauritius Context triple: [Prime Minister of Mauritius, flag, Flag of Mauritius]
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A.
Flag of the President of Mauritius
The Flag of the President of Mauritius is the distinctive presidential standard featuring national symbols that represents the authority and office of the Mauritian head of state.
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B.
Flag of Barbados
The Flag of Barbados is a vertical tricolour of ultramarine and gold featuring a black broken trident, symbolizing the nation’s independence and its connection to the sea.
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C.
Flag of Saint Lucia
The Flag of Saint Lucia is a blue field featuring a distinctive gold isosceles triangle in front of a white-edged black triangle, symbolizing the island’s sunshine, volcanic peaks, and African and European heritage.
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D.
Flag of Maldives
The Flag of Maldives is a national flag featuring a green rectangle with a white crescent centered on a red field, symbolizing Islam and the nation's sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of Martinique
The Flag of Martinique is the official emblem representing the French overseas territorial collectivity of Martinique in the Caribbean, featuring distinctive symbols that reflect its colonial history and island 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 Mauritius Target entity description: The Flag of Mauritius is a national flag featuring four horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow, and green, symbolizing the country's history, Indian Ocean setting, bright future, and lush landscape.
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A.
Flag of the President of Mauritius
The Flag of the President of Mauritius is the distinctive presidential standard featuring national symbols that represents the authority and office of the Mauritian head of state.
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B.
Flag of Barbados
The Flag of Barbados is a vertical tricolour of ultramarine and gold featuring a black broken trident, symbolizing the nation’s independence and its connection to the sea.
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C.
Flag of Saint Lucia
The Flag of Saint Lucia is a blue field featuring a distinctive gold isosceles triangle in front of a white-edged black triangle, symbolizing the island’s sunshine, volcanic peaks, and African and European heritage.
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D.
Flag of Maldives
The Flag of Maldives is a national flag featuring a green rectangle with a white crescent centered on a red field, symbolizing Islam and the nation's sovereignty.
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E.
Flag of Martinique
The Flag of Martinique is the official emblem representing the French overseas territorial collectivity of Martinique in the Caribbean, featuring distinctive symbols that reflect its colonial history and island identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | national flag ⓘ |
| adoptionDate | 1968-03-12 ⓘ |
| adoptionEvent | independence of Mauritius ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Four Bands ⓘ |
| bottomStripeColor | green ⓘ |
| category |
Flags of Africa
ⓘ
National symbols of Mauritius ⓘ |
| civilUse |
as national symbol
ⓘ
on land ⓘ |
| continentCountry | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Mauritius ⓘ |
| design | four horizontal bands ⓘ |
| field | vexillology ⓘ |
| governmentUse |
on official ceremonies
ⓘ
on public buildings ⓘ |
| hasColor |
blue
ⓘ
green ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| isOn |
civil flag of Mauritius
ⓘ
state flag of Mauritius ⓘ war flag of Mauritius ⓘ
linked to:
Flag of Mauritius
|
| legalDefinition | defined in Mauritian law ⓘ |
| numberOfStripes | 4 ⓘ |
| oceanCountry | Indian Ocean ⓘ |
| officialLanguageCountry |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ Mauritian Creole ⓘ |
| precededBy | colonial flag of British Mauritius ⓘ |
| proportion | 2:3 ⓘ |
| secondStripeColor | blue ⓘ |
| shape | rectangular ⓘ |
| status | current national flag ⓘ |
| stripeOrderTopToBottom | red-blue-yellow-green ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Indian Ocean setting
ⓘ
bright future ⓘ history of Mauritius ⓘ lush landscape ⓘ |
| thirdStripeColor | yellow ⓘ |
| topStripeColor | red ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Government of Mauritius
ⓘ
people of Mauritius ⓘ |
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 Mauritius Description of subject: The Flag of Mauritius is a national flag featuring four horizontal bands of red, blue, yellow, and green, symbolizing the country's history, Indian Ocean setting, bright future, and lush landscape.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Flag of Mauritius
linked to: Flag of Mauritius
linked to: Flag of Mauritius