Which Philip K. Dick story inspired Spielberg's Minority Report?

The Philip K. Dick story that inspired Spielberg’s Minority Report is “The Minority Report.”

Dick’s science-fiction novelette was first published in 1956. It imagines a future in which three precogs predict crimes before they happen, allowing a police division called Precrime to arrest people for offenses they have not yet committed. The title refers to a dissenting prediction when one precog’s vision differs from the other two.

Spielberg’s 2002 film uses that premise but substantially reworks the story. Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, the head of Washington, D.C.’s Precrime unit, rather than the older police commissioner of Dick’s original. The movie also shifts the central mystery, expands the action-thriller elements, and focuses more heavily on surveillance, free will, and the danger of punishing predicted crimes.

The title is sometimes mistaken for the name of the film itself, but the source is a distinct written work whose title includes the definite article: “The Minority Report.”