Catch Me If You Can (book)
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Catch Me If You Can is a memoir in which former con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. recounts his audacious real-life exploits impersonating professionals and forging checks around the world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catch Me If You Can | 4 |
| Catch Me If You Can (book) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11572406 — 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)
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Target entity: Catch Me If You Can (book) Context triple: [Frank Abagnale Jr., notableWork, Catch Me If You Can (book)]
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A.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazz- and pop-infused score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
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C.
Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)
Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazzy, 1960s-inspired score and a show-within-a-show format.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 psychological thriller film, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, about a young con artist who becomes dangerously obsessed with assuming another man's identity.
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E.
The Wolf of Wall Street (memoir)
"The Wolf of Wall Street" (memoir) is Jordan Belfort’s autobiographical account of his rise and fall as a stockbroker, detailing his high-flying lifestyle, financial crimes, and eventual downfall.
- 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: Catch Me If You Can (book) Target entity description: Catch Me If You Can is a memoir in which former con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. recounts his audacious real-life exploits impersonating professionals and forging checks around the world.
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A.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a biographical crime film directed by Steven Spielberg that follows the real-life exploits of con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazz- and pop-infused score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
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C.
Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)
Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazzy, 1960s-inspired score and a show-within-a-show format.
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D.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 psychological thriller film, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, about a young con artist who becomes dangerously obsessed with assuming another man's identity.
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E.
The Wolf of Wall Street (memoir)
"The Wolf of Wall Street" (memoir) is Jordan Belfort’s autobiographical account of his rise and fall as a stockbroker, detailing his high-flying lifestyle, financial crimes, and eventual downfall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Catch Me If You Can (2002 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catch Me If You Can (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Frank Abagnale Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Stan Redding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresOrganization |
FBI
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pan American World Airways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationStars |
Leonardo DiCaprio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Hanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Frank Abagnale Jr.'s early life
ⓘ
international travel ⓘ law enforcement pursuit ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ true crime ⓘ |
| hasControversy | questions about factual accuracy of some episodes ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationDirector | Steven Spielberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 277 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Frank Abagnale Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketedAs | based on a true story ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Carl Hanratty (in film adaptation based on FBI agent) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysRoleImpersonation |
airline pilot
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ medical doctor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| publisher | Crown Publishing Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
1960s
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France ⓘ Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| subjectMatter |
check fraud
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confidence tricks ⓘ forgery ⓘ impersonation of professionals ⓘ |
| theme |
deception
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identity ⓘ pursuit by authorities ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | circa 1963–1969 ⓘ |
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: Catch Me If You Can (book) Description of subject: Catch Me If You Can is a memoir in which former con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. recounts his audacious real-life exploits impersonating professionals and forging checks around the world.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frank Abagnale Jr.
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can
subject surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (film)
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can