Derice Bannock
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Derice Bannock is the determined Jamaican sprinter-turned-bobsledder who leads his country's unlikely Olympic bobsled team in the film "Cool Runnings."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Derice Bannock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7494904 — 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: Derice Bannock Context triple: [Cool Runnings, mainCharacter, Derice Bannock]
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A.
Laird of Closeburn
The Laird of Closeburn is the hereditary Scottish lairdship associated with the Kirkpatrick family’s ancestral estate at Closeburn in Dumfriesshire.
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B.
Drostan of Aberdour
Drostan of Aberdour is an early Scottish saint traditionally associated with monastic foundations in Aberdeenshire and venerated for his missionary work in northeastern Scotland.
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C.
Lord Crichton
Lord Crichton is a hereditary Scottish noble title historically associated with the influential Crichton family.
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D.
Gawen Lawrie
Gawen Lawrie was a 17th-century English Quaker and colonial proprietor who played a key role in the early settlement and governance of West Jersey in North America.
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E.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
- 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: Derice Bannock Target entity description: Derice Bannock is the determined Jamaican sprinter-turned-bobsledder who leads his country's unlikely Olympic bobsled team in the film "Cool Runnings."
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A.
Laird of Closeburn
The Laird of Closeburn is the hereditary Scottish lairdship associated with the Kirkpatrick family’s ancestral estate at Closeburn in Dumfriesshire.
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B.
Drostan of Aberdour
Drostan of Aberdour is an early Scottish saint traditionally associated with monastic foundations in Aberdeenshire and venerated for his missionary work in northeastern Scotland.
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C.
Lord Crichton
Lord Crichton is a hereditary Scottish noble title historically associated with the influential Crichton family.
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D.
Gawen Lawrie
Gawen Lawrie was a 17th-century English Quaker and colonial proprietor who played a key role in the early settlement and governance of West Jersey in North America.
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E.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cool Runnings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Derice Bannock is loosely inspired by real Jamaican bobsledders from the 1988 Winter Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
determined ⓘ optimistic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Jamaica ⓘ |
| eventCompetedIn | Winter Olympics (fictional depiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | sports comedy ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearContext | 1993 ⓘ |
| friend | Sanka Coffie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGoal |
to compete in the Olympic Games
ⓘ
to win an Olympic gold medal ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mentor | Irv Blitzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalTeam | Jamaica Olympic team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bobsledder
ⓘ
sprinter ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Leon Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompanyContext | Walt Disney Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | leader of the Jamaican bobsled team ⓘ |
| sport |
bobsleigh
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sprinting ⓘ |
| team | Jamaican Olympic bobsled team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teammate |
Junior Bevil
NERFINISHED
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Sanka Coffie NERFINISHED ⓘ Yul Brenner 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: Derice Bannock Description of subject: Derice Bannock is the determined Jamaican sprinter-turned-bobsledder who leads his country's unlikely Olympic bobsled team in the film "Cool Runnings."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.