Peter William Brockbanks
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Peter William Brockbanks, better known as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter William Brockbanks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8577599 — 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 William Brockbanks Context triple: [Peter Banks, birthName, Peter William Brockbanks]
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A.
Peter Crompton
Peter Crompton was a British physician and intellectual active in late 18th- and early 19th-century England, known for his involvement in scientific and reformist circles.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Peter Blaker
Peter Blaker was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles, particularly in defense and foreign affairs, during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Frank Boulton
Frank Boulton is a baseball executive and entrepreneur best known as the founder and owner of the independent league team, the Long Island Ducks.
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E.
Paul Brickhill
Paul Brickhill was an Australian author and former WWII fighter pilot best known for writing classic wartime narratives such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Great Escape."
- 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 William Brockbanks Target entity description: Peter William Brockbanks, better known as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
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A.
Peter Crompton
Peter Crompton was a British physician and intellectual active in late 18th- and early 19th-century England, known for his involvement in scientific and reformist circles.
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Peter Blaker
Peter Blaker was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles, particularly in defense and foreign affairs, during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Frank Boulton
Frank Boulton is a baseball executive and entrepreneur best known as the founder and owner of the independent league team, the Long Island Ducks.
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E.
Paul Brickhill
Paul Brickhill was an Australian author and former WWII fighter pilot best known for writing classic wartime narratives such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Great Escape."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founding member of Yes
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bill Bruford
NERFINISHED
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Chris Squire NERFINISHED ⓘ Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ The Syn NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Kaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1947-07-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Barnet
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2013-03-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
England
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Brockbanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
progressive rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| instrument |
acoustic guitar
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electric guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Empire
NERFINISHED
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Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ The Syn NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Peter William Brockbanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flash (1972 album)
NERFINISHED
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Time and a Word NERFINISHED ⓘ Two Sides of Peter Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ Yes (1969 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| stageName | Peter Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 William Brockbanks Description of subject: Peter William Brockbanks, better known as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.