The Wettest County in the World
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The Wettest County in the World is a historical novel by Matt Bondurant that fictionalizes his family’s Prohibition-era bootlegging exploits in Franklin County, Virginia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Wettest County in the World canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4101174 — 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: The Wettest County in the World Context triple: [Lawless, basedOn, The Wettest County in the World]
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A.
Kota Hujan
Kota Hujan is the popular nickname for Bogor, an Indonesian city renowned for its frequent rainfall and cool, wet climate.
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B.
God's Own County
God's Own County is a popular affectionate nickname for Yorkshire, a historic and culturally distinctive county in northern England renowned for its landscapes, heritage, and regional pride.
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C.
The County
The County is the colloquial nickname for Aroostook County in northern Maine, known for its vast rural landscape, potato farming, and strong cultural ties to both the United States and neighboring Canada.
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D.
Prayers for Rain
Prayers for Rain is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they unravel a complex and disturbing case in Boston.
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E.
Mississippi Bubble
The Mississippi Bubble was an early 18th-century French financial crisis triggered by speculative investment in John Law’s Mississippi Company, culminating in a dramatic stock market collapse and loss of public confidence in paper money.
- 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: The Wettest County in the World Target entity description: The Wettest County in the World is a historical novel by Matt Bondurant that fictionalizes his family’s Prohibition-era bootlegging exploits in Franklin County, Virginia.
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A.
Kota Hujan
Kota Hujan is the popular nickname for Bogor, an Indonesian city renowned for its frequent rainfall and cool, wet climate.
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B.
God's Own County
God's Own County is a popular affectionate nickname for Yorkshire, a historic and culturally distinctive county in northern England renowned for its landscapes, heritage, and regional pride.
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C.
The County
The County is the colloquial nickname for Aroostook County in northern Maine, known for its vast rural landscape, potato farming, and strong cultural ties to both the United States and neighboring Canada.
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D.
Prayers for Rain
Prayers for Rain is a crime novel by Dennis Lehane featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro as they unravel a complex and disturbing case in Boston.
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E.
Mississippi Bubble
The Mississippi Bubble was an early 18th-century French financial crisis triggered by speculative investment in John Law’s Mississippi Company, culminating in a dramatic stock market collapse and loss of public confidence in paper money.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Matt Bondurant ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Bondurant family history
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The Wettest County in the World ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
moonshine trade
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organized crime ⓘ rural life in Virginia ⓘ |
| follows | Bondurant brothers ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
crime fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Lawless (film)
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linked to:
Lawless
|
| hasCharacter |
Forrest Bondurant
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Howard Bondurant ⓘ Jack Bondurant ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0-7432-9732-5 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Prohibition in the United States
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linked to:
Prohibition era in the United States
bootlegging ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Wettest County in the World ⓘ |
| pageCount | 320 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Scribner
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linked to:
Scribner Books
|
| setInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| setInLocation | Franklin County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | Prohibition era ⓘ |
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Subject: The Wettest County in the World Description of subject: The Wettest County in the World is a historical novel by Matt Bondurant that fictionalizes his family’s Prohibition-era bootlegging exploits in Franklin County, Virginia.
Referenced by (7)
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