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Sentient Information Systems

Dutch software company specialized in data mining

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7451239
Source-derived summary

Sentient Information Systems BV is a Dutch software provider specialized in data mining. The company was founded in 2001 out of the former Sentient Machine Research (SMR) and is located in Amsterdam.

Sentient's flagship product is DataDetective, a data mining platform capable of analyzing information from various domains. Users of this tool include several Dutch police departments, hospitals, insurance and media companies.

Editorial summary

“Sentient Information Systems” enters the record as dutch software company specialized in data mining. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sentient, Information and Systems can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sentient, Information and Systems.
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“Sentient Information Systems” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sentient, Information and Systems provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7451239. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from Sentient Information Systems” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.