Piedmont, New Mexico
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Piedmont, New Mexico is a fictional small desert town that serves as the primary outbreak site of the deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Piedmont, New Mexico canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135162 — 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: Piedmont, New Mexico Context triple: [The Andromeda Strain, hasFictionalLocation, Piedmont, New Mexico]
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A.
McIntosh, New Mexico
McIntosh, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community located in central New Mexico within the Estancia Valley.
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B.
San Miguel, New Mexico
San Miguel, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community located in Doña Ana County in the southern part of the state.
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C.
La Luz, New Mexico
La Luz, New Mexico is a small census-designated community in southern New Mexico known for its historic orchards and proximity to the Sacramento Mountains.
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D.
Peralta, New Mexico
Peralta, New Mexico is a small town in central New Mexico that forms part of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.
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E.
Vado, New Mexico
Vado, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community in southern New Mexico located near the U.S.–Mexico border in Doña Ana County.
- 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: Piedmont, New Mexico Target entity description: Piedmont, New Mexico is a fictional small desert town that serves as the primary outbreak site of the deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain."
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A.
McIntosh, New Mexico
McIntosh, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community located in central New Mexico within the Estancia Valley.
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B.
San Miguel, New Mexico
San Miguel, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community located in Doña Ana County in the southern part of the state.
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C.
La Luz, New Mexico
La Luz, New Mexico is a small census-designated community in southern New Mexico known for its historic orchards and proximity to the Sacramento Mountains.
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D.
Peralta, New Mexico
Peralta, New Mexico is a small town in central New Mexico that forms part of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.
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E.
Vado, New Mexico
Vado, New Mexico is a small unincorporated community in southern New Mexico located near the U.S.–Mexico border in Doña Ana County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional location
ⓘ
fictional town ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Andromeda Strain ⓘ |
| associatedWith | extraterrestrial microorganism ⓘ |
| causeOfDestructionInStory | Andromeda microorganism ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Michael Crichton ⓘ |
| describedAs |
desert town
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Andromeda Strain ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
arid
ⓘ
rural ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New Mexico ⓘ |
| mediumOfOrigin | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | initial outbreak location ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Andromeda Strain universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Andromeda Strain
|
| populationStatusInStory | largely killed by Andromeda microorganism ⓘ |
| primaryOutbreakSiteOf | Andromeda microorganism ⓘ |
| settingOf | The Andromeda Strain ⓘ |
| transportEventInStory | recovery of crashed satellite ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Wildfire team ⓘ |
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: Piedmont, New Mexico Description of subject: Piedmont, New Mexico is a fictional small desert town that serves as the primary outbreak site of the deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.