Altamont Speedway
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Altamont Speedway is a California motor racing track best known as the site of the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert, a chaotic rock festival often cited as marking the end of the 1960s counterculture era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altamont Speedway canonical | 2 |
| Altamont Speedway, California | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9429137 — 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 Speedway Context triple: [Altamont Free Concert, location, Altamont Speedway]
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A.
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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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
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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D.
Altamont
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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E.
Woodstock Fairgrounds
Woodstock Fairgrounds is a multi-purpose event and exhibition venue in Woodstock, Ontario, known for hosting agricultural fairs, festivals, and community gatherings.
- 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 Speedway Target entity description: Altamont Speedway is a California motor racing track best known as the site of the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert, a chaotic rock festival often cited as marking the end of the 1960s counterculture era.
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A.
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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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
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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D.
Altamont
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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E.
Woodstock Fairgrounds
Woodstock Fairgrounds is a multi-purpose event and exhibition venue in Woodstock, Ontario, known for hosting agricultural fairs, festivals, and community gatherings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
motor racing track
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music festival site ⓘ sports venue ⓘ |
| associatedBand |
Grateful Dead
ⓘ
Jefferson Airplane ⓘ Santana ⓘ
linked to:
Santana (band)
The Rolling Stones ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
1960s counterculture
ⓘ
rock music history ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| closurePeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| culturalImpact |
frequently compared to Woodstock as its dark counterpart
ⓘ
subject of books and documentaries about the 1960s ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Gimme Shelter (1970 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gimme Shelter
|
| eventYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| hasEventDate | 1969-12-06 ⓘ |
| hasLapDirection | counterclockwise ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
site of violence at a rock concert
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symbol of the end of the 1960s counterculture era ⓘ |
| hostedSeries |
NASCAR regional events
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local short-track racing ⓘ stock car racing events ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alameda County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Alameda County
Altamont Pass area ⓘ
linked to:
Altamont Pass
|
| locatedNear |
Livermore, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Livermore
Tracy, California ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | widely covered as a tragic rock festival ⓘ |
| nearCity | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| notableIncident | stabbing death of Meredith Hunter during the Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| opened | 1960s ⓘ |
| partOf | history of American rock festivals ⓘ |
| proximityTo |
Altamont Pass wind farms
ⓘ
linked to:
Altamont Pass
Interstate 580 ⓘ |
| region | Northern California ⓘ |
| securityGroupAtConcert | Hells Angels ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| surfaceType | asphalt ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
dark side of large-scale rock festivals
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end of the Summer of Love optimism ⓘ |
| trackType |
oval track
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road course (infield configuration) ⓘ |
| usedFor |
automobile racing
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concerts ⓘ motorcycle racing ⓘ |
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 Speedway Description of subject: Altamont Speedway is a California motor racing track best known as the site of the infamous 1969 Altamont Free Concert, a chaotic rock festival often cited as marking the end of the 1960s counterculture era.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hells Angels were paid in beer
linked to: Altamont Speedway
linked to: Altamont Speedway