Pat Cappadora
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Pat Cappadora is the anguished mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose young son’s disappearance and unexpected reappearance years later shatter and reshape her family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Cappadora | 1 |
| Pat Cappadora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4626423 — 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: Pat Cappadora Context triple: [The Deep End of the Ocean, mainCharacter, Pat Cappadora]
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A.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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B.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
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C.
Anthony Perrotti
Anthony Perrotti is a former Rutgers University wrestler best known for becoming the program’s first NCAA All-American in over a decade and helping elevate the Scarlet Knights wrestling program to national prominence.
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D.
Bill Badalato
Bill Badalato is a film producer best known for his work on the science fiction horror movie "Alien: Resurrection."
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E.
Mike Larocca
Mike Larocca is a film producer known for his work on acclaimed projects including the multiverse-themed movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
- 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: Pat Cappadora Target entity description: Pat Cappadora is the anguished mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose young son’s disappearance and unexpected reappearance years later shatter and reshape her family.
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A.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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B.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
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C.
Anthony Perrotti
Anthony Perrotti is a former Rutgers University wrestler best known for becoming the program’s first NCAA All-American in over a decade and helping elevate the Scarlet Knights wrestling program to national prominence.
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D.
Bill Badalato
Bill Badalato is a film producer best known for his work on the science fiction horror movie "Alien: Resurrection."
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E.
Mike Larocca
Mike Larocca is a film producer known for his work on acclaimed projects including the multiverse-themed movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Deep End of the Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States (fictional) ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jacquelyn Mitchard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Deep End of the Ocean universe ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ben Cappadora
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kerry Cappadora NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Cappadora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Ben Cappadora
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beth Cappadora’s extended family ⓘ Kerry Cappadora NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Cappadora NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies parental fear of losing a child
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explores themes of grief and family resilience ⓘ |
| notableFor |
anguish over her son’s disappearance
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coping with her son’s unexpected reappearance ⓘ struggling to hold her family together ⓘ |
| occupation | mother and homemaker ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| spouse | Beth Cappadora’s husband Pat (note: user subject appears to conflate Pat with Beth) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1996 (The Deep End of the Ocean) ⓘ |
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: Pat Cappadora Description of subject: Pat Cappadora is the anguished mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose young son’s disappearance and unexpected reappearance years later shatter and reshape her family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ben Cappadora