The Atlas
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The Atlas is a genre-blending collection by William T. Vollmann that interweaves travel writing, fiction, and autobiography into fragmented, geographically wide-ranging narratives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Atlas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090799 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Atlas Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Atlas]
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Atlas
Atlas is a professional Mexican football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, known for its historic presence in Liga MX.
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Atlas
Atlas is a monumental ongoing project by German artist Gerhard Richter, consisting of thousands of photographs, sketches, and collages that document and inform his artistic practice.
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Atlas
Atlas is a Titan from Greek mythology best known for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from the gods.
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Atlas
Atlas is a highly advanced humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA, designed for complex, human-like mobility and manipulation in disaster-response and research environments.
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Atlas
Atlas is a family of American expendable launch vehicles originally developed from a ballistic missile program and widely used to place satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Atlas Target entity description: The Atlas is a genre-blending collection by William T. Vollmann that interweaves travel writing, fiction, and autobiography into fragmented, geographically wide-ranging narratives.
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A.
Atlas
Atlas is a professional Mexican football club based in Guadalajara, Jalisco, known for its historic presence in Liga MX.
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B.
Atlas
Atlas is a Titan from Greek mythology best known for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from the gods.
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C.
Atlas
Atlas is a monumental ongoing project by German artist Gerhard Richter, consisting of thousands of photographs, sketches, and collages that document and inform his artistic practice.
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D.
Atlas
Atlas is a highly advanced humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA, designed for complex, human-like mobility and manipulation in disaster-response and research environments.
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E.
Atlas
Atlas is a family of American expendable launch vehicles originally developed from a ballistic missile program and widely used to place satellites and spacecraft into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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fiction collection ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| author | William T. Vollmann ⓘ |
| containsElement |
autobiographical material
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fictionalized episodes ⓘ reportage ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| followsInStyle | William T. Vollmann earlier travel and war reporting ⓘ |
| format | print ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical fiction
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fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| hasContributor | William T. Vollmann ⓘ |
| hasForm |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | 400–500 pages ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
cross-cultural encounters
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personal experience of the author ⓘ political conflict ⓘ |
| isPartOfAuthorOeuvre | William T. Vollmann bibliography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
fragmented
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nonlinear ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending fiction and nonfiction
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experimental narrative form ⓘ geographically wide-ranging narratives ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| settingLocation |
Africa
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Arctic regions ⓘ Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| structure |
geographically organized narratives
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linked stories ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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love ⓘ memory ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ travel ⓘ violence ⓘ war ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfCreation | 1990s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Atlas Description of subject: The Atlas is a genre-blending collection by William T. Vollmann that interweaves travel writing, fiction, and autobiography into fragmented, geographically wide-ranging narratives.
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subject surface form:
William T. Vollmann