Titled Person Reference

Name: Titled Person Reference
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Identifies personal names preceded by salutations (Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof, etc.) in Australian documents. Uses structural regex for honorific + capitalised name components with corroborative evidence from the consolidated Australian forename and surname dictionaries.

Type: keyword_proximity
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium confidence: salutation prefix provides strong signal but names following salutations may be partial or ambiguous in some document formats.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: AML/CTF Act (Cth), HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), TIA Act 1979 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: pii, personal-name
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 5

Should match

Dr Zorvane Qartz — Exact 65 discovery probe - titled capitalised structure without Australian dictionary evidence
Dr Aaliyah Zorvane — Exact 75 probe - titled structure with one consolidated Australian dictionary hit
Contact name: Dr Aaliyah Abbasi; personnel record — Exact 85 probe - titled structure with both dictionaries, a populated field label, and person-record context
Dear Dr Sarah Thompson — Doctor with full name
Attention: Prof. James Wilson — Professor with period abbreviation
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby — Honourable title with two name components

Should not match

The weather forecast predicts rain across the region this weekend. — Generic non-name text with no salutation present
The mrs clause in the contract — Lowercase clause wording does not satisfy the case-sensitive titled-name structure
Dr Brown Engineering Pty Ltd lodged the tender. — Titled business-name collision present in both Australian dictionaries must not reach enforcement
Dr Victoria Road, QLD 4000 — Titled formatted-address collision present in both Australian dictionaries must not reach enforcement
Sample: Dear Dr Aaliyah Abbasi — High-like titled-name fixture must be rejected by the shared exclusion dictionary

Known false positives

Salutations preceding non-name words in informal text or brand references. Mitigation: Require capitalised words following the salutation and corroborative family-name dictionary.