Frank Abagnale Jr.
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Frank Abagnale Jr. is a former con artist and imposter whose youthful exploits in check fraud and identity deception inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Abagnale Jr. canonical | 8 |
| Frank W. Abagnale | 1 |
| Frank William Abagnale Jr. | 1 |
| con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T433894 — 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.
Target entity: Frank Abagnale Jr. Context triple: [Leonardo DiCaprio, portrayed, Frank Abagnale Jr.]
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Willie Sutton
Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
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B.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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C.
Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker and motivational speaker best known for his high-flying, fraudulent Wall Street career and subsequent memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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D.
Frank Vincent DuMond
Frank Vincent DuMond was an influential American painter and long-time art instructor known for his landscape and figure painting as well as his impact on generations of students.
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E.
G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, and political operative best known as a key architect of the Watergate break-in and later a conservative media personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Frank Abagnale Jr. Target entity description: Frank Abagnale Jr. is a former con artist and imposter whose youthful exploits in check fraud and identity deception inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can."
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A.
Willie Sutton
Willie Sutton was a notorious 20th-century American bank robber famed for his multiple prison escapes and the apocryphal quote that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is."
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B.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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C.
Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker and motivational speaker best known for his high-flying, fraudulent Wall Street career and subsequent memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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D.
Frank Vincent DuMond
Frank Vincent DuMond was an influential American painter and long-time art instructor known for his landscape and figure painting as well as his impact on generations of students.
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E.
G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, and political operative best known as a key architect of the Watergate break-in and later a conservative media personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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consulting firm ⓘ former con artist ⓘ human ⓘ impostor ⓘ security consultant ⓘ |
| activeYearsAsConArtist | 1960s ⓘ |
| arrestedIn | France ⓘ |
| author |
Frank Abagnale Jr.
self-linksurface differs
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Stan Redding ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Catch Me If You Can
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surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (book)
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| birthDate | 1948-04-27 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Bronxville, New York
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surface form:
Bronxville, New York, United States
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| collaboratedWith | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Abagnale & Associates ⓘ |
| familyName |
Abagnale & Associates
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surface form:
Abagnale
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| field | fraud prevention ⓘ |
| formerOccupation |
check forger
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con artist ⓘ impostor ⓘ |
| founded | Abagnale & Associates ⓘ |
| fullName |
Frank Abagnale Jr.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Frank William Abagnale Jr.
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| genre |
fraud prevention
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true crime ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| hasChild | three sons ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn |
France
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Sweden ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| knownFor |
consulting on document security
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lectures on fraud prevention ⓘ |
| laterActivity | advocacy for ethical behavior and fraud awareness ⓘ |
| notableFor |
airline pilot impersonation
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check fraud ⓘ college professor impersonation ⓘ doctor impersonation ⓘ identity deception ⓘ lawyer impersonation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Catch Me If You Can
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surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (book)
Stealing Your Life (book) ⓘ The Art of the Steal (book) ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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lecturer ⓘ security consultant ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| spouse | Kelly Abagnale ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Catch Me If You Can
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surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (2002 film)
Catch Me If You Can ⓘ
surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (book)
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Frank Abagnale Jr. Description of subject: Frank Abagnale Jr. is a former con artist and imposter whose youthful exploits in check fraud and identity deception inspired the film "Catch Me If You Can."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.