Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist
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Laszlo Kreizler in *The Alienist* is a brilliant and pioneering 19th-century criminal psychologist who uses emerging forensic and psychological methods to hunt a serial killer in New York City.
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| Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist Context triple: [Daniel Brühl, portrayedCharacterIn, Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist]
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Detective Thorn in Soylent Green
Detective Thorn in Soylent Green is the hard-edged New York City police detective protagonist who uncovers the horrifying truth behind the futuristic food product Soylent Green in the 1973 dystopian science fiction film.
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Guy Haines
Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
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Inspector Robert Fabian
Inspector Robert Fabian is a fictional London detective featured as the central crime-solving figure in the British television series "Fabian of the Yard."
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Harry Caul
Harry Caul is a reclusive, morally conflicted surveillance expert whose obsessive dedication to privacy and professional detachment drives the psychological tension in the film.
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E.
Inspector Lonergan
Inspector Lonergan is a fictional police inspector featured in the 1932 mystery film "The Night Club Lady."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Laszlo Kreizler in The Alienist Target entity description: Laszlo Kreizler in *The Alienist* is a brilliant and pioneering 19th-century criminal psychologist who uses emerging forensic and psychological methods to hunt a serial killer in New York City.
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A.
Detective Thorn in Soylent Green
Detective Thorn in Soylent Green is the hard-edged New York City police detective protagonist who uncovers the horrifying truth behind the futuristic food product Soylent Green in the 1973 dystopian science fiction film.
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B.
Guy Haines
Guy Haines is the ambitious tennis player and central protagonist of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller "Strangers on a Train," whose fateful encounter with a stranger leads to a deadly murder pact.
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C.
Inspector Robert Fabian
Inspector Robert Fabian is a fictional London detective featured as the central crime-solving figure in the British television series "Fabian of the Yard."
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D.
Harry Caul
Harry Caul is a reclusive, morally conflicted surveillance expert whose obsessive dedication to privacy and professional detachment drives the psychological tension in the film.
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E.
Inspector Lonergan
Inspector Lonergan is a fictional police inspector featured in the 1932 mystery film "The Night Club Lady."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alienist
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fictional character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| activeIn | New York City ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
The Alienist (TV series)
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linked to:
The Alienist
|
| appearsIn |
Angel of Darkness
ⓘ
linked to:
The Angel of Darkness
The Alienist ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
John Schuyler Moore
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Sara Howard ⓘ The Isaacson brothers ⓘ
linked to:
the Isaacson brothers
|
| conflictWith | New York City Police Department establishment ⓘ |
| createdBy | Caleb Carr ⓘ |
| education | European medical training ⓘ |
| eraOfPractice | pre-Freudian psychology ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Alienist ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | historical crime fiction ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryElement |
abusive father
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traumatic childhood ⓘ |
| influencesInStory | development of modern criminal profiling ⓘ |
| investigates |
ritualistic murders
ⓘ
serial killers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
challenging conventional police methods
ⓘ
pioneering psychological approaches to crime ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| moralView | criminal behavior shaped by environment and upbringing ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives investigation through psychological insight ⓘ |
| nationality | Hungarian-American ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal psychologist
ⓘ
psychiatrist ⓘ |
| opposesView | purely moralistic view of crime ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
brilliant
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compassionate toward children ⓘ intense ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Daniel Brühl ⓘ |
| role | leader of an investigative team ⓘ |
| runs | institution for troubled children ⓘ |
| setting |
Gilded Age New York
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linked to:
The Gilded Age
|
| specialization | study of the criminally insane ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
behavioral analysis
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early forensic science ⓘ psychological profiling ⓘ |
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