John E. Douglas
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John E. Douglas is a pioneering former FBI criminal profiler whose work interviewing and analyzing serial killers helped shape modern behavioral analysis and inspired the book and TV series "Mindhunter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John E. Douglas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10325710 — 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: John E. Douglas Context triple: [Mindhunter, basedOnAuthor, John E. Douglas]
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John Douglas
John Douglas was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who helped shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
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John Douglas
John Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish clergyman and bishop best known for editing and publishing accounts of British voyages of exploration, including those of Captain James Cook.
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C.
John Douglas
John Douglas was a prominent 19th-century English architect known for his distinctive Victorian and Gothic Revival designs, particularly in and around Chester.
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John Munch
John Munch is a cynical, conspiracy-minded detective portrayed by Richard Belzer, best known for his long-running cross-series role in the Law & Order and Homicide television franchises.
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Inspector John Raymond Legrasse
Inspector John Raymond Legrasse is a New Orleans police detective in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” known for leading a raid on a sinister cult that worships the cosmic entity Cthulhu.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John E. Douglas Target entity description: John E. Douglas is a pioneering former FBI criminal profiler whose work interviewing and analyzing serial killers helped shape modern behavioral analysis and inspired the book and TV series "Mindhunter."
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A.
John Douglas
John Douglas was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who helped shape early Scottish Protestant doctrine as one of the authors of the Scots Confession.
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B.
John Douglas
John Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish clergyman and bishop best known for editing and publishing accounts of British voyages of exploration, including those of Captain James Cook.
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C.
John Douglas
John Douglas was a prominent 19th-century English architect known for his distinctive Victorian and Gothic Revival designs, particularly in and around Chester.
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D.
John Munch
John Munch is a cynical, conspiracy-minded detective portrayed by Richard Belzer, best known for his long-running cross-series role in the Law & Order and Homicide television franchises.
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E.
Inspector John Raymond Legrasse
Inspector John Raymond Legrasse is a New Orleans police detective in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” known for leading a raid on a sinister cult that worships the cosmic entity Cthulhu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal profiler
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former FBI agent ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | FBI Medal of Valor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1945-06-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Mark Olshaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Eastern New Mexico University
NERFINISHED
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Nova University NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioral analysis
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criminal profiling ⓘ forensic psychology ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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true crime ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
behavioral analysis practices in law enforcement
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development of modern criminal profiling ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
Mindhunter (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Mindhunter (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing behavioral analysis techniques
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interviewing serial killers ⓘ pioneering FBI criminal profiling ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
FBI Behavioral Science Unit
NERFINISHED
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FBI Investigative Support Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John E. Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
organized vs disorganized serial killer typology
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use of offender interviews to build behavioral profiles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anyone You Want Me to Be
NERFINISHED
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Journey Into Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Obsession NERFINISHED ⓘ The Anatomy of Motive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI special agent
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criminal profiler ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Quantico, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John E. Douglas Description of subject: John E. Douglas is a pioneering former FBI criminal profiler whose work interviewing and analyzing serial killers helped shape modern behavioral analysis and inspired the book and TV series "Mindhunter."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.