detective

C9227
concept

A detective is an individual who investigates crimes or mysteries by gathering evidence, analyzing clues, and deducing the truth to solve cases.

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All labels observed (34)

Label Occurrences
police detective 61
detective canonical 44
fictional detective 33

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: detective
Generated description
A detective is an individual who investigates crimes or mysteries by gathering evidence, analyzing clues, and deducing the truth to solve cases.

Instances (251)

Instance Via concept surface
Nick Charles private detective
Nick Charles is a retired private detective
surface form: Nick Charles
private detective
Nora Charles is Nick's wealthy wife
surface form: Nora Charles
amateur detective
Percy Pilbeam is a private detective
surface form: Percy Pilbeam
private detective
Inspector Wembury fictional police detective
Scotty Appleton undercover police detective
Lafayette C. Baker —
Detective Richard Willis in Sharp Objects
surface form: Detective Richard Willis
police detective
Nora Charles amateur detective
J. G. Reeder fictional detective
Everton J. Conger —
The Lone Wolf fictional detective
Sam Catchem police detective
A Walk Among the Tombstones
surface form: Matthew Scudder
fictional private investigator
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror Sherlock Holmes film
Sherlock Holmes in Washington Sherlock Holmes film
The Spider Woman Sherlock Holmes film
The Scarlet Claw Sherlock Holmes film
The Pearl of Death Sherlock Holmes film
The House of Fear Sherlock Holmes film
The Woman in Green Sherlock Holmes film
Pursuit to Algiers Sherlock Holmes film
Terror by Night Sherlock Holmes film
Brother Cadfael —
E. V. Cunningham
surface form: Masao Masuto
fictional detective
Porfiry Petrovich detective figure
Ellie Hatcher series
surface form: Ellie Hatcher
fictional police detective
Frederick Abberline —
Martin Riggs police detective
Mark McPherson —
Peter Grant —
Detective Jack Hoskins in The Outsider
surface form: Detective Jack Hoskins
police detective
Father Brown fictional detective
Alvirah Meehan amateur detective
Chief Inspector Heat police detective
Malcolm Bright criminal profiler
Malcolm Bright – criminal profiler
surface form: Malcolm Bright
criminal profiler
Hannibal King private investigator
Claude Chavasse private detective
Rycroft Philostrate —
Topshe detective’s assistant
Jack (Secret Seven) child detective
Peter child detective
Pam child detective
Peter Child detective
Frederick Algernon Trotteville child detective
Pam (Secret Seven) child detective
George (Secret Seven) child detective
Flip Zimmerman —
Detective Milton Arbogast in Psycho
surface form: Milton Arbogast
private detective