agent provocateur

person who commits or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act
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agent provocateur

Summary

agent provocateur is an activity[1]. It draws 392 Wikipedia views per month (activity category, ranking #52 of 272).[2]

Key Facts

  • agent provocateur's instance of is recorded as activity[3].
  • agent provocateur's GND ID is recorded as 4141605-3[4].
  • agent provocateur's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85002178[5].
  • agent provocateur's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11938945v[6].
  • agent provocateur's subclass of is recorded as spy[7].
  • agent provocateur's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 54414[8].
  • agent provocateur's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02g3h6[9].
  • agent provocateur's significant event is recorded as Operation Trust[10].
  • agent provocateur's significant event is recorded as COINTELPRO[11].
  • agent provocateur's significant event is recorded as 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity[12].
  • agent provocateur's significant event is recorded as 2008 Democratic National Convention[13].
  • agent provocateur's topic's main category is recorded as Q9429421[14].
  • agent provocateur's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX5047186[15].
  • agent provocateur's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 344.052092[16].
  • agent provocateur's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 363.252092[17].
  • agent provocateur's facet of is recorded as strategy of tension[18].
  • agent provocateur's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[19].
  • agent provocateur's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[20].
  • agent provocateur's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/agent-provocateur[21].
  • agent provocateur's has characteristic is recorded as operational cover[22].
  • agent provocateur's different from is recorded as Prowokator[23].
  • agent provocateur's uses is recorded as entrapment[24].
  • agent provocateur's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1yw7b9jlz[25].
  • agent provocateur's significant person is recorded as Eugène François Vidocq[26].
  • agent provocateur's significant person is recorded as Jacob Zhitomirsky[27].

Why It Matters

agent provocateur draws 392 Wikipedia views per month (activity category, ranking #52 of 272).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). agent provocateur. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/agent-provocateur
MLA “agent provocateur.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/agent-provocateur.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_agent-provocateur_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{agent provocateur}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/agent-provocateur}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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