Buendía house in Macondo
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The Buendía house in Macondo is the central family home in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," where generations of the Buendía family live out the town’s magical and tragic history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Buendía house in Macondo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4450576 — 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: Buendía house in Macondo Context triple: [José Arcadio Buendía, household, Buendía house in Macondo]
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Macondo
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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Casa Amarela
Casa Amarela is a populous neighborhood in the northern zone of Recife, Brazil, known for its busy commercial streets and traditional markets.
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Casa Rinconada
Casa Rinconada is a large, ancient Great Kiva and ceremonial structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans in what is now northwestern New Mexico.
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Casa de Osambela
Casa de Osambela is a prominent colonial-era mansion in Lima, Peru, renowned for its grand neoclassical architecture and historical significance within the city’s historic center.
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El Caracol
El Caracol is an ancient Maya observatory at Chichén Itzá, notable for its circular tower and alignment with astronomical events.
- 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: Buendía house in Macondo Target entity description: The Buendía house in Macondo is the central family home in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," where generations of the Buendía family live out the town’s magical and tragic history.
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A.
Macondo
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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B.
Casa Amarela
Casa Amarela is a populous neighborhood in the northern zone of Recife, Brazil, known for its busy commercial streets and traditional markets.
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C.
Casa Rinconada
Casa Rinconada is a large, ancient Great Kiva and ceremonial structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans in what is now northwestern New Mexico.
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D.
Casa de Osambela
Casa de Osambela is a prominent colonial-era mansion in Lima, Peru, renowned for its grand neoclassical architecture and historical significance within the city’s historic center.
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E.
El Caracol
El Caracol is an ancient Maya observatory at Chichén Itzá, notable for its circular tower and alignment with astronomical events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional house
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literary location ⓘ setting in a novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | One Hundred Years of Solitude ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Amaranta
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Aureliano Babilonia ⓘ Aureliano Buendía ⓘ Fernanda del Carpio ⓘ José Arcadio Buendía ⓘ Remedios the Beauty ⓘ Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | magical realism ⓘ |
| builtBy | José Arcadio Buendía ⓘ |
| builtWithSupportFrom | Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| centralRoleIn |
family saga of the Buendía
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history of Macondo ⓘ |
| contains |
courtyard with almond trees
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kitchen where Úrsula works ⓘ room of Melquíades ⓘ various bedrooms for Buendía generations ⓘ workshop of José Arcadio Buendía ⓘ
linked to:
José Arcadio Buendía
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| countryOfAuthor | Colombia ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gabriel García Márquez ⓘ |
| finalState | ruin and desolation ⓘ |
| firstOwner |
José Arcadio Buendía
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Úrsula Iguarán ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | novel published in 1967 ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeArc | from construction to abandonment ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Caribbean and Colombian domestic spaces (inspiration) ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century Latin American literature ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalPlace | Macondo ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central setting of the novel ⓘ |
| primaryResidents | Buendía family ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
family home as microcosm of society
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magical events embedded in everyday life ⓘ |
| siteOf |
apparitions and ghosts
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many births of Buendía descendants ⓘ many deaths of Buendía family members ⓘ reading of Melquíades’ parchments ⓘ supernatural events ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
cyclical nature of history
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decline of a family ⓘ isolation ⓘ persistence of memory ⓘ
linked to:
The Persistence of Memory
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| temporalScope | spans roughly one hundred years of fictional history ⓘ |
| undergoes |
expansion over generations
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progressive decay ⓘ |
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Subject: Buendía house in Macondo Description of subject: The Buendía house in Macondo is the central family home in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," where generations of the Buendía family live out the town’s magical and tragic history.
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