The Scarpetta Factor
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The Scarpetta Factor is a crime thriller novel in Patricia Cornwell’s popular Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist entangled in a high-profile New York investigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Scarpetta Factor canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11726575 — 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: The Scarpetta Factor Context triple: [Patricia Cornwell, notableWork, The Scarpetta Factor]
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A.
Body of Proof
Body of Proof is an American television drama series that follows a brilliant but troubled medical examiner who uses her forensic skills to solve complex crimes.
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B.
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a 1935 American horror film loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Premature Burial," featuring a mad doctor’s revenge plot centered on live burial.
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C.
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller film best known for starring Madonna alongside Willem Dafoe in a controversial, sexually explicit murder trial story.
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D.
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a law student and a journalist who uncover a deadly conspiracy surrounding the assassination of two Supreme Court justices.
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E.
The Suspect
"The Suspect" is a 1944 film noir thriller in which Charles Laughton plays a mild-mannered Victorian-era clerk driven toward murder, noted for its atmospheric direction by Robert Siodmak.
- 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: The Scarpetta Factor Target entity description: The Scarpetta Factor is a crime thriller novel in Patricia Cornwell’s popular Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist entangled in a high-profile New York investigation.
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A.
Body of Proof
Body of Proof is an American television drama series that follows a brilliant but troubled medical examiner who uses her forensic skills to solve complex crimes.
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B.
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a 1935 American horror film loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Premature Burial," featuring a mad doctor’s revenge plot centered on live burial.
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C.
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller film best known for starring Madonna alongside Willem Dafoe in a controversial, sexually explicit murder trial story.
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D.
The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 legal thriller film based on John Grisham’s novel, following a law student and a journalist who uncover a deadly conspiracy surrounding the assassination of two Supreme Court justices.
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E.
The Suspect
"The Suspect" is a 1944 film noir thriller in which Charles Laughton plays a mild-mannered Victorian-era clerk driven toward murder, noted for its atmospheric direction by Robert Siodmak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kay Scarpetta novel
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crime novel ⓘ crime thriller novel ⓘ novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| author | Patricia Cornwell ⓘ |
| character |
Benton Wesley
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Kay Scarpetta ⓘ Lucy Farinelli ⓘ Pete Marino ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuresCharacter |
forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta
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linked to:
Kay Scarpetta
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| featuresLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| featuresProfession | forensic pathology ⓘ |
| followedBy | Port Mortuary ⓘ |
| follows | Scarpetta ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Kay Scarpetta universe
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linked to:
Kay Scarpetta series
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| hasSubject |
forensic science in criminal investigations
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law enforcement procedures ⓘ medical examination of crime victims ⓘ serial crime ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime investigation
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forensic investigation ⓘ media and public scrutiny ⓘ professional ethics in forensics ⓘ psychological suspense ⓘ violence in urban settings ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kay Scarpetta ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor | continuing the long-running Kay Scarpetta crime series ⓘ |
| partOf | Kay Scarpetta series ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | forensic pathologist ⓘ |
| publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons
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linked to:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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| series | Kay Scarpetta ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| workOf | Patricia Cornwell ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Scarpetta Factor Description of subject: The Scarpetta Factor is a crime thriller novel in Patricia Cornwell’s popular Kay Scarpetta series, featuring the forensic pathologist entangled in a high-profile New York investigation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.