Altamont, North Carolina
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Altamont, North Carolina is the fictional stand-in for Asheville in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," serving as the backdrop for the book’s coming-of-age story.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altamont, North Carolina canonical | 2 |
| Altamont, North Carolina (fictional town) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2748500 — 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, North Carolina Context triple: [Look Homeward, Angel, setting, Altamont, North Carolina]
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A.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
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B.
Butner, North Carolina
Butner, North Carolina is a small town in central North Carolina known for its correctional and mental health facilities and its location within the Research Triangle region.
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C.
Maxton, North Carolina
Maxton, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County notable for its significant Lumbee Native American community and cultural presence.
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D.
Fairmont, North Carolina
Fairmont, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County that serves as one of the communities historically associated with the Lumbee Native American tribe.
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E.
Zebulon, North Carolina
Zebulon, North Carolina, is a small town in the eastern part of the Raleigh metropolitan area known for its minor league baseball team, the Carolina Mudcats, and its growing residential communities.
- 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, North Carolina Target entity description: Altamont, North Carolina is the fictional stand-in for Asheville in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," serving as the backdrop for the book’s coming-of-age story.
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A.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
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B.
Butner, North Carolina
Butner, North Carolina is a small town in central North Carolina known for its correctional and mental health facilities and its location within the Research Triangle region.
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C.
Maxton, North Carolina
Maxton, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County notable for its significant Lumbee Native American community and cultural presence.
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D.
Fairmont, North Carolina
Fairmont, North Carolina is a small town in Robeson County that serves as one of the communities historically associated with the Lumbee Native American tribe.
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E.
Zebulon, North Carolina
Zebulon, North Carolina, is a small town in the eastern part of the Raleigh metropolitan area known for its minor league baseball team, the Carolina Mudcats, and its growing residential communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional city
ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Look Homeward, Angel ⓘ |
| basedOn | Asheville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Thomas Wolfe ⓘ |
| describedAs | fictional stand-in for Asheville, North Carolina ⓘ |
| genreContext | autobiographical novel ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | North Carolina ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | backdrop for a coming-of-age story ⓘ |
| partOf |
Look Homeward, Angel
ⓘ
surface form:
the fictional world of Look Homeward, Angel
|
How these facts were elicited
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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, North Carolina Description of subject: Altamont, North Carolina is the fictional stand-in for Asheville in Thomas Wolfe’s novel "Look Homeward, Angel," serving as the backdrop for the book’s coming-of-age story.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Altamont, North Carolina (fictional town)