The Banshee
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The Banshee is an experimental 1925 piano composition by Henry Cowell that is famous for its eerie, avant-garde use of directly manipulated piano strings to evoke ghostly wails.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Banshee canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20693487 — 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: The Banshee Context triple: [Henry Cowell, notableWork, The Banshee]
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Banshee
Banshee is an American action-drama television series known for its violent, stylized storytelling about an ex-con assuming a dead sheriff’s identity in a small Amish-country town.
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B.
Banshee
The Banshee is a fast, highly maneuverable Covenant ground-attack aircraft in the Halo video game series, known for its agile flight and plasma-based weaponry.
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C.
Banshee Queen
The Banshee Queen is the fearsome undead monarch who rules over the Forsaken, a faction of free-willed undead in the Warcraft universe.
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D.
Ikran (banshee)
Ikran, also known as a banshee, is a large, dragon-like flying predator from the world of Pandora in the Avatar franchise, used by the Na’vi as an aerial mount and hunting companion.
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Cry of the Banshee
Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 British horror film starring Vincent Price, blending witchcraft, revenge, and supernatural terror in a grim Elizabethan setting.
- 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: The Banshee Target entity description: The Banshee is an experimental 1925 piano composition by Henry Cowell that is famous for its eerie, avant-garde use of directly manipulated piano strings to evoke ghostly wails.
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A.
Banshee
Banshee is an American action-drama television series known for its violent, stylized storytelling about an ex-con assuming a dead sheriff’s identity in a small Amish-country town.
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B.
Banshee
The Banshee is a fast, highly maneuverable Covenant ground-attack aircraft in the Halo video game series, known for its agile flight and plasma-based weaponry.
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C.
Banshee Queen
The Banshee Queen is the fearsome undead monarch who rules over the Forsaken, a faction of free-willed undead in the Warcraft universe.
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D.
Ikran (banshee)
Ikran, also known as a banshee, is a large, dragon-like flying predator from the world of Pandora in the Avatar franchise, used by the Na’vi as an aerial mount and hunting companion.
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E.
Cry of the Banshee
Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 British horror film starring Vincent Price, blending witchcraft, revenge, and supernatural terror in a grim Elizabethan setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.