Richie Aprile
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Richie Aprile is a volatile and vengeful mob capo in the DiMeo crime family on the television series "The Sopranos."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richie Aprile canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339387 — 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: Richie Aprile Context triple: [David Proval, playedCharacter, Richie Aprile]
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A.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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B.
Jake Siciliano
Jake Siciliano is an American actor best known for his role as Martin Solloway on the television drama series "The Affair."
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C.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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D.
Tony Amonte
Tony Amonte is a former American professional ice hockey right winger best known for his NHL career with teams like the Chicago Blackhawks and his scoring prowess in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Nick D’Virgilio
Nick D’Virgilio is an American drummer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the progressive rock band Spock’s Beard and later with Big Big Train.
- 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: Richie Aprile Target entity description: Richie Aprile is a volatile and vengeful mob capo in the DiMeo crime family on the television series "The Sopranos."
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A.
Richie DiMaso
Richie DiMaso is an ambitious and volatile FBI agent in the film "American Hustle" who drives the high-stakes sting operation at the story’s center.
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B.
Jake Siciliano
Jake Siciliano is an American actor best known for his role as Martin Solloway on the television drama series "The Affair."
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C.
Dan Iassogna
Dan Iassogna is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous postseason games, including serving as crew chief in the World Series.
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D.
Tony Amonte
Tony Amonte is a former American professional ice hockey right winger best known for his NHL career with teams like the Chicago Blackhawks and his scoring prowess in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Nick D’Virgilio
Nick D’Virgilio is an American drummer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with the progressive rock band Spock’s Beard and later with Big Big Train.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Aprile crew ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Albert Barese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beansie Gaeta NERFINISHED ⓘ Junior Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attemptedAllianceWith | Junior Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Essex County, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Tony Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | David Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Tony Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother of Jackie Aprile Sr.
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uncle of Jackie Aprile Jr. ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Sopranos universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Sopranos season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | “Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist’s Office…” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Jackie Aprile Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Janice Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lastAppearanceEpisode | “The Knight in White Satin Armor” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyaltyConflictWith | Tony Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | DiMeo crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodOfDeath | gunshot ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian-American ⓘ |
| network | HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAction |
cripples Beansie Gaeta with a car
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physically abuses Janice Soprano ⓘ plots against Tony Soprano ⓘ returns from prison in season 2 ⓘ seeks to regain power in the DiMeo crime family ⓘ |
| occupation |
caporegime
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mobster ⓘ |
| partOf | The Sopranos season 2 story arc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
controlling
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vengeful ⓘ violent ⓘ volatile ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | David Proval NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Janice Soprano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | mafia television series ⓘ |
| servedPrisonTime | yes ⓘ |
| setting | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | deceased ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Richie Aprile Description of subject: Richie Aprile is a volatile and vengeful mob capo in the DiMeo crime family on the television series "The Sopranos."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.