Macondo
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Macondo is the fictional, magical-realist town created by Gabriel García Márquez, most famously serving as the setting of his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macondo canonical | 27 |
| Macondo (fictional town in García Márquez’s works) | 1 |
| Macondo cycle | 1 |
| Macondo universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T150247 — 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: Macondo Context triple: [Gabriel García Márquez, notableConcept, Macondo]
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A.
Castro Marim
Castro Marim is a town and municipality in Portugal’s Algarve region, near the Spanish border, known for its historic castle and salt marshes.
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B.
Malecón
Malecón is a famous seaside promenade and seawall in Havana, Cuba, known for its ocean views, social life, and historic architecture.
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C.
Little Havana
Little Havana is a vibrant Miami neighborhood known as the cultural and political heart of the Cuban exile community, famous for its Latin music, food, and street life.
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D.
Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba is the capital and largest city of Cuba, renowned for its historic architecture, vibrant culture, and significant political and economic role in the Caribbean.
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E.
Esperanza
Esperanza is a small coastal village on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside promenade, beaches, and access to the nearby bioluminescent bay.
- 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: Macondo Target entity description: Macondo is the fictional, magical-realist town created by Gabriel García Márquez, most famously serving as the setting of his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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A.
Castro Marim
Castro Marim is a town and municipality in Portugal’s Algarve region, near the Spanish border, known for its historic castle and salt marshes.
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B.
Malecón
Malecón is a famous seaside promenade and seawall in Havana, Cuba, known for its ocean views, social life, and historic architecture.
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C.
Little Havana
Little Havana is a vibrant Miami neighborhood known as the cultural and political heart of the Cuban exile community, famous for its Latin music, food, and street life.
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D.
Havana, Cuba
Havana, Cuba is the capital and largest city of Cuba, renowned for its historic architecture, vibrant culture, and significant political and economic role in the Caribbean.
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E.
Esperanza
Esperanza is a small coastal village on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, known for its seaside promenade, beaches, and access to the nearby bioluminescent bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
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fictional town ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Big Mama’s Funeral
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In Evil Hour ⓘ Leaf Storm ⓘ No One Writes to the Colonel ⓘ One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
fate and predestination
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magical intrusion into the ordinary ⓘ memory and forgetting ⓘ modernization and foreign exploitation ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
| bestKnownFrom | One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ |
| climateInFiction | tropical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Colombia ⓘ |
| creator | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| economyInFiction |
initially agricultural village
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later dominated by a foreign banana company ⓘ |
| fictionalHistoryFeature |
banana company massacre
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civil wars ⓘ cyclical time ⓘ eventual destruction by a whirlwind ⓘ plague of insomnia ⓘ rain lasting nearly five years ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Leaf Storm ⓘ |
| founderInFiction |
José Arcadio Buendía
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Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| genre | magic realism ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
became a symbol of magical realism worldwide
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inspired the term "Macondismo" in literary criticism ⓘ name adopted by cultural festivals and institutions ⓘ used as a metaphor for Colombia in journalism and politics ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeRole |
microcosm of Colombia
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stage for the Buendía family saga ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Aracataca ⓘ |
| languageOfSetting | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Latin American Boom ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalCountry | Colombia ⓘ |
| narrativeChronology |
destroyed after several generations of the Buendía family
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founded in the 19th century in the fiction ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Buendía family ⓘ |
| religionInFiction | predominantly Catholic community ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Latin American history
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cyclical nature of history ⓘ isolation ⓘ mythic dimension of everyday life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Macondo Description of subject: Macondo is the fictional, magical-realist town created by Gabriel García Márquez, most famously serving as the setting of his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Macondo cycle
this entity surface form:
Macondo universe
this entity surface form:
Macondo (fictional town in García Márquez’s works)