Altamont
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Altamont is a rock band formed by Melvins drummer Dale Crover, known for its heavy, sludge-influenced sound and association with the alternative metal scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altamont canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8543362 — 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: [666, notableTrack, Altamont]
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A.
Altamont
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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B.
Altamont
Altamont is a middle name notably borne by the fictional British nobleman Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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C.
Altamont Gardens
Altamont Gardens is a renowned historic estate garden in County Carlow, Ireland, celebrated for its romantic landscape, diverse plant collections, and picturesque lakeside and riverside walks.
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D.
Altamont Village
Altamont Village is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Mountain House, California.
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E.
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.
- 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 a rock band formed by Melvins drummer Dale Crover, known for its heavy, sludge-influenced sound and association with the alternative metal scene.
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A.
Altamont
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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B.
Altamont
Altamont is a middle name notably borne by the fictional British nobleman Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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C.
Altamont Gardens
Altamont Gardens is a renowned historic estate garden in County Carlow, Ireland, celebrated for its romantic landscape, diverse plant collections, and picturesque lakeside and riverside walks.
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D.
Altamont Village
Altamont Village is a residential neighborhood within the planned community of Mountain House, California.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album
ⓘ
rock band ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
ⓘ
2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Acid King
ⓘ
Melvins ⓘ Murder City Devils ⓘ
linked to:
The Murder City Devils
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
alternative metal
ⓘ
heavy rock ⓘ rock ⓘ sludge metal ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Dale Crover
ⓘ
Dan Southwick ⓘ Joey Osbourne ⓘ |
| hasRelease |
Civil War Fantasy
ⓘ
Music for Meditation ⓘ Our Darling ⓘ The Monkees’ Uncle ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Dale Crover – drums
ⓘ
linked to:
Dale Crover
|
| influencedByGenre |
doom metal
ⓘ
punk rock ⓘ sludge metal ⓘ |
| label |
Ipecac Recordings
ⓘ
Man’s Ruin Records ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Altamont
ⓘ
Altamont ⓘ Altamont ⓘ Melvins ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to the Melvins’ extended musical circle
ⓘ
sludge-influenced heavy sound ⓘ |
| notableMember | Dale Crover ⓘ |
| originatedAs | side project of Dale Crover ⓘ |
| performer |
Altamont
ⓘ
Altamont ⓘ Altamont ⓘ Altamont ⓘ |
| scene | alternative metal scene ⓘ |
| soundCharacteristic |
heavy
ⓘ
sludge-influenced ⓘ |
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 a rock band formed by Melvins drummer Dale Crover, known for its heavy, sludge-influenced sound and association with the alternative metal scene.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.