James Quinn Wilson

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academic author political scientist

James Quinn Wilson was an influential American political scientist best known for his work on crime, public policy, and the “broken windows” theory of policing.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
James Quinn Wilson canonical	2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic ⓘ author ⓘ political scientist ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in political science ⓘ
academicDiscipline	government ⓘ
awardReceived	James Madison Award of the American Political Science Association ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ
birthName	James Quinn Wilson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
causeOfDeath	leukemia ⓘ
coAuthor	George L. Kelling ⓘ Richard J. Herrnstein ⓘ
coAuthorOf	Broken Windows theory article with George L. Kelling ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1931-05-27 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2012-03-02 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Chicago ⓘ University of Redlands ⓘ
employer	Harvard University ⓘ Pepperdine University ⓘ University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ
familyName	Wilson ⓘ
fieldOfWork	criminology ⓘ political science ⓘ public administration ⓘ public policy ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	James ⓘ
influenced	community policing strategies ⓘ modern policing policy in the United States ⓘ
knownFor	broken windows theory ⓘ research on crime ⓘ research on policing ⓘ research on public policy ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Enterprise Institute ⓘ Attorney General’s Task Force on Violent Crime ⓘ President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ⓘ surface form: President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
middleName	Quinn ⓘ
name	James Q. Wilson ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableWork	Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It ⓘ Crime and Human Nature ⓘ Thinking About Crime ⓘ Varieties of Police Behavior ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Denver, Colorado, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
positionHeld	professor at Pepperdine University ⓘ professor of government at Harvard University ⓘ professor of management and public policy at UCLA ⓘ

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: James Quinn Wilson
Description of subject: James Quinn Wilson was an influential American political scientist best known for his work on crime, public policy, and the “broken windows” theory of policing.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

James Q. Wilson → fullName → James Quinn Wilson ⓘ

James Quinn Wilson → birthName → James Quinn Wilson self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: James Q. Wilson