Beth Cappadora
E463555
Beth Cappadora is the emotionally devastated mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose life is upended when her young son is abducted and later unexpectedly found.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beth Cappadora canonical | 2 |
| Beth Cappadora’s husband Pat (note: user subject appears to conflate Pat with Beth) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4626422 — 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: Beth Cappadora Context triple: [The Deep End of the Ocean, mainCharacter, Beth Cappadora]
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A.
Claudia Squitieri
Claudia Squitieri is the daughter of renowned Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and Italian film director Pasquale Squitieri.
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B.
Nadine Caridi
Nadine Caridi is a British-born former model and licensed marriage and family therapist best known as the ex-wife of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose life inspired the film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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C.
Nancy Barbato
Nancy Barbato was the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra and the mother of their three children, including entertainer Nancy Sinatra.
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D.
Denise Lombardo
Denise Lombardo is an American woman best known as the first wife of former stockbroker and convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, whose life inspired the film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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E.
Lucia Migliaccio
Lucia Migliaccio was an Italian noblewoman and duchess best known as the morganatic second wife of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.
- 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: Beth Cappadora Target entity description: Beth Cappadora is the emotionally devastated mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose life is upended when her young son is abducted and later unexpectedly found.
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A.
Claudia Squitieri
Claudia Squitieri is the daughter of renowned Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and Italian film director Pasquale Squitieri.
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B.
Nadine Caridi
Nadine Caridi is a British-born former model and licensed marriage and family therapist best known as the ex-wife of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, whose life inspired the film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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C.
Nancy Barbato
Nancy Barbato was the first wife of singer Frank Sinatra and the mother of their three children, including entertainer Nancy Sinatra.
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D.
Denise Lombardo
Denise Lombardo is an American woman best known as the first wife of former stockbroker and convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, whose life inspired the film "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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E.
Lucia Migliaccio
Lucia Migliaccio was an Italian noblewoman and duchess best known as the morganatic second wife of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
film The Deep End of the Ocean
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linked to:
The Deep End of the Ocean
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| appearsIn | The Deep End of the Ocean ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Italian American family background ⓘ |
| bookPublicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment |
attempts to rebuild family after reunion
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struggles to cope with loss of child ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jacquelyn Mitchard ⓘ |
| emotion |
anxiety
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depression ⓘ grief ⓘ guilt ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel The Deep End of the Ocean
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linked to:
The Deep End of the Ocean
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ben Cappadora
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linked to:
Pat Cappadora
Kerry Cappadora ⓘ Vincent Cappadora ⓘ |
| hasSiblingInLaw | Candy Bliss ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | photographer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michelle Pfeiffer ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois
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linked to:
Chicago
Madison, Wisconsin ⓘ
linked to:
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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| role | mother ⓘ |
| spouse | Pat Cappadora ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
family trauma
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forgiveness ⓘ marital strain ⓘ parental responsibility ⓘ |
| undergoesEvent |
child abduction of Ben Cappadora
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reunion with missing son ⓘ |
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: Beth Cappadora Description of subject: Beth Cappadora is the emotionally devastated mother at the center of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," whose life is upended when her young son is abducted and later unexpectedly found.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Pat Cappadora
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spouse
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Beth Cappadora’s husband Pat (note: user subject appears to conflate Pat with Beth)
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linked to: Beth Cappadora