detective

investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person
Intangible profession Q842782
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detective

Summary

detective is a profession[1]. detective ranks in the top 3% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (903 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • detective's image is recorded as Münchner Detective.jpg[3].
  • detective's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • detective's instance of is recorded as fictional human[5].
  • detective's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85037288[6].
  • detective's subclass of is recorded as investigator[7].
  • detective's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572701[8].
  • detective's Commons category is recorded as Detectives[9].
  • detective's field of this occupation is recorded as law enforcement[10].
  • detective's field of this occupation is recorded as criminal investigation[11].
  • detective's field of this occupation is recorded as criminal investigation[12].
  • detective's Unicode character is recorded as 🕵[13].
  • detective's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0vjs6[14].
  • detective's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Detectives[15].
  • detective's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300136450[16].
  • detective's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10640248[17].
  • detective's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0098673[18].
  • detective's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000062773[19].
  • detective's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/detective[20].
  • detective's different from is recorded as private investigator[21].
  • detective's different from is recorded as detective fiction[22].
  • detective's different from is recorded as manuscriptologist[23].
  • detective's uses is recorded as still camera[24].
  • detective's YSO ID is recorded as 21890[25].
  • detective's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'cs', 'text': 'detektivka'}[26].
  • detective's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'محققة'}[27].

Why It Matters

detective ranks in the top 3% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (903 views/month).[2] detective has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] detective is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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  1. 15d ago · Arlo Barnes · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses
    Different from private investigator, detective fiction, manuscriptologist
    Field of this occupation law enforcement, criminal investigation, criminal investigation
    Instance of profession, fictional human
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q10470157]]"
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