Peter Banks
E203086
Peter Banks was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Banks canonical | 25 |
| Peter Banks – guitarist | 1 |
| Yes guitarist Peter Banks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794548 — 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: Peter Banks Context triple: [Yes, founder, Peter Banks]
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A.
Lenny Belardo
Lenny Belardo is the fictional, enigmatic young American pope at the center of the television series "The Young Pope."
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B.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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C.
Michael Zager
Michael Zager is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work in disco and pop music, including the hit "Let's All Chant."
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
- 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: Peter Banks Target entity description: Peter Banks was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
Lenny Belardo
Lenny Belardo is the fictional, enigmatic young American pope at the center of the television series "The Young Pope."
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B.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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C.
Michael Zager
Michael Zager is an American record producer, composer, and arranger best known for his work in disco and pop music, including the hit "Let's All Chant."
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Peter Banks Description of subject: Peter Banks was an English guitarist best known as the original lead guitarist and a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yes (band)
linked to: Peter Banks
linked to: Peter Banks
subject linked to:
album "Two Sides of Peter Banks"
subject linked to:
album "Two Sides of Peter Banks"
subject linked to:
album "Two Sides of Peter Banks"
subject linked to:
album "Two Sides of Peter Banks"
subject linked to:
Yes (self-titled debut album)