Paul Banks
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Paul Banks is an English-American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the post-punk revival band Interpol.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Banks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6412227 — 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: Paul Banks Context triple: [Banks, hasNotableBearer, Paul Banks]
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A.
Nate Ruess
Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
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B.
Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
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E.
Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
- 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: Paul Banks Target entity description: Paul Banks is an English-American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the post-punk revival band Interpol.
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A.
Nate Ruess
Nate Ruess is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band fun. and for his hit collaborations in pop music.
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B.
Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie and as a member of The Postal Service.
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C.
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Bright Eyes and for his influential work in the indie and folk music scenes.
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D.
Rivers Cuomo
Rivers Cuomo is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Weezer.
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E.
Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert is an American singer-songwriter and composer best known as the frontman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and for his work scoring films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
guitarist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1997 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Interpol
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julian Plenti NERFINISHED ⓘ RZA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bandMemberOf | Interpol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Paul Julian Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboration | Banks & Steelz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-05-03 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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indie rock ⓘ post-punk revival ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSoloCareerUnderName |
Julian Plenti
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Interpol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Paul Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | post-punk revival movement of the early 2000s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
guitarist of Interpol
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lead vocalist of Interpol ⓘ lyricist of Interpol ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
ⓘ
Matador Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInBand_Interpol |
lead vocalist
ⓘ
primary lyricist ⓘ rhythm guitarist ⓘ |
| soloAlbum |
Banks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Banks (Mixtape) ⓘ Everybody on My Dick Like They Supposed to Be NERFINISHED ⓘ Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Julian Plenti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeInBand_Interpol | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Paul Banks Description of subject: Paul Banks is an English-American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the post-punk revival band Interpol.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.