Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
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"Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" is a David Foster Wallace essay that satirically examines the culture and experience of attending the Illinois State Fair.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away | 1 |
| Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12885966 — 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: Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All Context triple: [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, containsEssay, Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All]
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A.
Let's Get Away from It All
"Let's Get Away from It All" is a popular traditional pop standard best known through Frank Sinatra’s recordings, celebrating the fantasy of escaping everyday life for romantic travel.
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B.
Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
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C.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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D.
The Distance from Here
The Distance from Here is a darkly comic contemporary play by Neil LaBute that explores the bleak lives and moral disintegration of disaffected American youth in a decaying suburban landscape.
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E.
Leaving the City
"Leaving the City" is a song by the American indie rock band Divers.
- 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: Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All Target entity description: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" is a David Foster Wallace essay that satirically examines the culture and experience of attending the Illinois State Fair.
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A.
Let's Get Away from It All
"Let's Get Away from It All" is a popular traditional pop standard best known through Frank Sinatra’s recordings, celebrating the fantasy of escaping everyday life for romantic travel.
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B.
Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here is a 1986 coming-of-age novel by Mona Simpson that follows a restless mother and her precocious daughter as they leave the Midwest for California in search of a better life.
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C.
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere is a 1993 country song by Dwight Yoakam known for its melancholic lyrics and atmospheric, Bakersfield-influenced sound.
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D.
The Distance from Here
The Distance from Here is a darkly comic contemporary play by Neil LaBute that explores the bleak lives and moral disintegration of disaffected American youth in a decaying suburban landscape.
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E.
Leaving the City
"Leaving the City" is a song by the American indie rock band Divers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay
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nonfiction work ⓘ |
| author | David Foster Wallace ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| critiques |
commercialization of local culture
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media stereotypes of the Midwest ⓘ |
| culturalContext | late 20th-century American culture ⓘ |
| depicts |
crowds at the fair
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fairground attractions ⓘ food vendors ⓘ livestock competitions ⓘ |
| explores |
ironic detachment
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tension between authenticity and spectacle ⓘ urban versus rural attitudes ⓘ |
| features |
detailed description
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digressive footnotes ⓘ self-reflexive commentary ⓘ |
| focusesOn | visitor experience at the Illinois State Fair ⓘ |
| genre |
literary journalism
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satire ⓘ |
| hasPlaceInAuthorOeuvre | early nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasTitleType | long-form title ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American popular culture
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Midwestern culture ⓘ irony ⓘ mass entertainment ⓘ spectacle ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first person ⓘ |
| setting | Illinois State Fair ⓘ |
| style |
digressive
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essayistic ⓘ highly descriptive ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
consumerism
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rural America ⓘ state fairs ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| tone |
humorous
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observational ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| uses |
colloquial language
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extended metaphors ⓘ ironic self-presentation of the narrator ⓘ |
| workOf | David Foster Wallace ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All Description of subject: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" is a David Foster Wallace essay that satirically examines the culture and experience of attending the Illinois State Fair.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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containsEssay
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Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
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linked to: Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All