Altamont
E296213
Altamont is the fictional North Carolina mill town in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," modeled closely on his hometown of Asheville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Altamont canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2748523 — 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: Altamont Context triple: [Look Homeward, Angel, fictionalTownName, Altamont]
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A.
Altamont Free Concert
The Altamont Free Concert was a notorious 1969 rock festival in California remembered for its chaotic organization and fatal violence, often cited as marking the dark end of the 1960s counterculture era.
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B.
Altamont Pass
Altamont Pass is a low mountain pass in the Diablo Range of Northern California, known as a major transportation corridor and one of the earliest large-scale wind farm sites in the United States.
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C.
Woodstock Fair
Woodstock Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and community fair in Woodstock, Ontario, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and local entertainment.
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D.
Woodstock, New York
Woodstock, New York is a small arts-oriented town in the Catskill Mountains best known for its vibrant creative community and association with the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Hillside
Hillside is the former Concord, Massachusetts home of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, now a historic site known as The Wayside.
- 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: Altamont Target entity description: Altamont is the fictional North Carolina mill town in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," modeled closely on his hometown of Asheville.
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A.
Altamont Free Concert
The Altamont Free Concert was a notorious 1969 rock festival in California remembered for its chaotic organization and fatal violence, often cited as marking the dark end of the 1960s counterculture era.
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B.
Altamont Pass
Altamont Pass is a low mountain pass in the Diablo Range of Northern California, known as a major transportation corridor and one of the earliest large-scale wind farm sites in the United States.
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C.
Woodstock Fair
Woodstock Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and community fair in Woodstock, Ontario, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and local entertainment.
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D.
Woodstock, New York
Woodstock, New York is a small arts-oriented town in the Catskill Mountains best known for its vibrant creative community and association with the 1960s counterculture movement.
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E.
Hillside
Hillside is the former Concord, Massachusetts home of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, now a historic site known as The Wayside.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional town ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Look Homeward, Angel ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Eugene Gant
ⓘ
the Gant family ⓘ |
| author | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Asheville
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| describedAs | North Carolina mill town ⓘ |
| fictionalCounterpartOf |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Asheville
|
| genreOfWorkItAppearsIn | autobiographical novel ⓘ |
| hasIndustry | textile mills ⓘ |
| hasRoleInWork | primary setting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkItAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Southern literature ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North Carolina ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| modeledOn |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
surface form:
Asheville
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| narrativeFunction | thinly veiled version of Asheville ⓘ |
| partOf | American literature ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1929 ⓘ |
| settingFor | Look Homeward, Angel ⓘ |
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: Altamont Description of subject: Altamont is the fictional North Carolina mill town in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," modeled closely on his hometown of Asheville.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.