The encyclopedia article on Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish-American detective who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850 and pioneered undercover investigation and criminal record keeping in the United States. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
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Reliability Tier3
General encyclopedia: useful for uncontested factual detail, not a primary or scholarly source. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton
Source TypeEncyclopedia
Sources
Wikipedia: Allan Pinkerton
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Criminologists and Reformers, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
Well-attested
9Criminologists and Reformers
Holds
1Criminologists and Reformers
General References
1Criminologists and Reformers
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