# How mappings create and update profiles in Connect Customer Customer Profiles
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The topics in this section describe how Customer Profiles matches ingested objects to profiles, when it creates inferred profiles, and how mapping templates and contact record templates control that behavior.

**Topics**
+ [Profile matching and inferred profiles in Customer Profiles](profile-matching.md)
+ [Mapping templates and implicit object types in Customer Profiles](templates-and-implicit-types.md)
+ [Contact record templates in Connect Customer Customer Profiles](ctr-contact-record-template.md)