Banished
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The Banished are a mercenary alien faction in the Halo universe, led by the Brute warlord Atriox and known for their brutal tactics and rebellion against the Covenant.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Banished canonical | 5 |
| the Banished | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8511645 — 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: Banished Context triple: [Halo (video game series), notableFaction, Banished]
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
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B.
Outcast
Outcast is a horror comic book series created by Robert Kirkman that follows a young man plagued by demonic possession and his quest to understand and combat the dark forces surrounding him.
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C.
Chastisement
"Chastisement" is a politically charged spoken-word and jazz-influenced album by The Last Poets, known for its militant commentary on race, oppression, and social justice.
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D.
Brimstone
Brimstone is a 2016 dark Western thriller film in which Dakota Fanning plays a mute frontier woman pursued by a vengeful preacher.
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E.
Brimstone
Brimstone is a British air-launched, radar-guided precision strike missile designed primarily for engaging fast-moving and armored ground targets.
- 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: Banished Target entity description: The Banished are a mercenary alien faction in the Halo universe, led by the Brute warlord Atriox and known for their brutal tactics and rebellion against the Covenant.
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A.
Strife
Strife is a 1909 stage play by John Galsworthy that portrays a bitter industrial conflict between capital and labor, highlighting the human cost of class struggle.
-
B.
Outcast
Outcast is a horror comic book series created by Robert Kirkman that follows a young man plagued by demonic possession and his quest to understand and combat the dark forces surrounding him.
-
C.
Chastisement
"Chastisement" is a politically charged spoken-word and jazz-influenced album by The Last Poets, known for its militant commentary on race, oppression, and social justice.
-
D.
Brimstone
Brimstone is a 2016 dark Western thriller film in which Dakota Fanning plays a mute frontier woman pursued by a vengeful preacher.
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E.
Brimstone
Brimstone is a British air-launched, radar-guided precision strike missile designed primarily for engaging fast-moving and armored ground targets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alien faction
ⓘ
fictional military organization ⓘ mercenary faction ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Halo Infinite
ⓘ
Halo Wars 2 ⓘ Halo franchise ⓘ
linked to:
Halo
|
| controls |
Installation 07 (Zeta Halo) at the start of Halo Infinite
ⓘ
linked to:
Halo Array
Salvation Base on the Ark ⓘ
linked to:
The Ark
|
| factionAlignment | antagonist ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Halo Wars 2 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Atriox ⓘ |
| hasBaseOfOperations |
Installation 07
ⓘ
The Ark ⓘ |
| hasCommander |
Decimus
ⓘ
Escharum ⓘ Hyperius ⓘ Pavium ⓘ
linked to:
Tavium
Tovarus ⓘ Voridus ⓘ |
| hasMemberSpecies |
Humans
ⓘ
Jiralhanae ⓘ Kig-Yar ⓘ Mgalekgolo ⓘ Sangheili ⓘ Unggoy ⓘ |
| hasUnitType |
Banished Banshee
ⓘ
linked to:
Banshee
Banished Spirit ⓘ Banished Wraith ⓘ Brute Chieftain ⓘ Brute Warlord ⓘ Engineer ⓘ Locust ⓘ Marauder ⓘ Reaver ⓘ |
| knownFor |
brutal tactics
ⓘ
rebellion against the Covenant ⓘ use of salvaged Covenant technology ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Jiralhanae language ⓘ |
| leader | Atriox ⓘ |
| notableConflict |
Battle for Zeta Halo
ⓘ
Second Ark Conflict ⓘ |
| opposes |
Covenant
ⓘ
United Nations Space Command ⓘ |
| originUniverse |
Halo universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Halo
|
| recruitsFrom |
former Covenant forces
ⓘ
pirates and mercenaries ⓘ |
| usesTechnologyFrom |
Covenant
ⓘ
Forerunners ⓘ |
| visualSymbol | red and black axe-like emblem ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Banished Description of subject: The Banished are a mercenary alien faction in the Halo universe, led by the Brute warlord Atriox and known for their brutal tactics and rebellion against the Covenant.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.