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Entity Correlation – Scenario 3
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| Scenario 3 |
Entity Correlation (Associates/Relationships) |
| Capability |
Entity Correlation; Search (Person); Visualization
(Mug Shots, Geographic) |
| Data |
Incarceration Records |
| Crime |
Bank Robbery |
| Functional Areas |
Operational |
| Scenario |
An anonymous source telephones the FBI to identify
a person responsible for a string of bank robberies in the Seattle,
Washington
area. Prior to this tip, the only fact known about the robber is that
he worked with an accomplice because he always enters the passenger
side of the getaway car. Because he was masked, the robber could not
be identified
and witnesses never had a clear view of the driver.
The tipster identified
the robber as James Bluefield. Investigators search N DEx for Bluefield
and find incarceration records on him from two previous
prison sentences. The records identify his past cell mates. Investigators
then use N DEx to view the results geographically, associating Bluefield’s
ex-cell mates with the area where the robberies occurred. N DEx identifies
four ex-cell mates now living in the Seattle area. Two of the four
former cell mates Michael Brooks and Tony Green, met Bluefield in prison
while
serving time for bank robbery. Investigators show mug shots of Brooks
and Green to bank employees. One employee recognizes Brooks as a customer
she assisted with a loan inquiry the day before the robbery. |
| Outcome |
Based upon this information, agents begin surveillance
on Brooks’ residence and capture Bluefield when he shows up to
visit Brooks. As a result of questioning both Brooks and Bluefield, police
learn of another robbery being planned. |
| N DEx Process that Allows
Outcome |
See diagram below. |
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The N DEx Search capability provided
the investigator with records on a suspect in a bank robbery. N DEx takes
advantage of previously submitted relationships (contained within a record)
and identifies new relationships between entities (i.e. , people, places
and things) using its Entity Resolution and Correlation capabilities as new
records are processed when they are ingested. Subsequently, when records
are searched, the user has access to all information on that entity (in this
case, a person) and also has access to the relationships maintained within
a record and relationships identified by N DEx as it searches new records
against all other records. In this case, the records contained related information
on ex-cell mates as well as mug shots that helped further the investigation
by providing additional information on one suspect and providing a link to
another suspect.
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