Nicholas Pileggi
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Nicholas Pileggi is an American author and screenwriter best known for his true-crime books and for co-writing the film "Goodfellas" based on his book "Wiseguy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicholas Pileggi canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4414396 — 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: Nicholas Pileggi Context triple: [Nora Ephron, spouse, Nicholas Pileggi]
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Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi was an American prosecutor and true-crime author best known for successfully prosecuting Charles Manson and writing the book "Helter Skelter."
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B.
Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith is an American true-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his investigative books on the Zodiac Killer case.
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C.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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D.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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E.
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico is a former New York City police officer renowned for exposing widespread corruption within the NYPD in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Nicholas Pileggi Target entity description: Nicholas Pileggi is an American author and screenwriter best known for his true-crime books and for co-writing the film "Goodfellas" based on his book "Wiseguy."
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A.
Vincent Bugliosi
Vincent Bugliosi was an American prosecutor and true-crime author best known for successfully prosecuting Charles Manson and writing the book "Helter Skelter."
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B.
Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith is an American true-crime author and former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his investigative books on the Zodiac Killer case.
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C.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Patrick Radden Keefe is an American investigative journalist and author known for his deeply reported narrative nonfiction on topics such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the opioid crisis, and international crime.
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D.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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E.
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico is a former New York City police officer renowned for exposing widespread corruption within the NYPD in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Casino
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Wiseguy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Goodfellas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWroteScreenplayFor |
Casino
NERFINISHED
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City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodfellas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Irishman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Long Island University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Associated Press
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pileggi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crime reporting
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non-fiction literature ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | true crime ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicholas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nicholas Pileggi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing the film Goodfellas
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true-crime writing about the American Mafia ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
American Mafia
NERFINISHED
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organized crime ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casino
NERFINISHED
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City Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodfellas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Irishman NERFINISHED ⓘ Wiseguy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nicholas Pileggi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Nora Ephron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Casino
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wiseguy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nicholas Pileggi Description of subject: Nicholas Pileggi is an American author and screenwriter best known for his true-crime books and for co-writing the film "Goodfellas" based on his book "Wiseguy."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lester Diamond
subject surface form:
Lester Diamond
subject surface form:
Henry Hill (Goodfellas)