Treadstone
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Treadstone is a covert CIA black-ops program in the Jason Bourne series that trains and controls elite assassins through extreme psychological and physical conditioning.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Treadstone canonical | 10 |
| Operation Treadstone | 2 |
| Treadstone (TV series) | 1 |
| Treadstone black ops program | 1 |
| Treadstone conspiracies | 1 |
| Treadstone program | 1 |
| “Treadstone Assassins” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1879037 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treadstone Context triple: [Jason Bourne, affiliation, Treadstone]
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Maxim Knight
Maxim Knight is an American actor best known for his role as Matt Mason on the science fiction television series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Storm Shadow
Storm Shadow is a long-range, air-launched cruise missile designed for precision strikes against high-value, hardened targets.
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D.
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is a fictional former U.S. Army military police major turned wandering vigilante hero, created by author Lee Child and featured in a popular series of thriller novels and film and television adaptations.
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E.
John Kenway
John Kenway is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Treadstone Target entity description: Treadstone is a covert CIA black-ops program in the Jason Bourne series that trains and controls elite assassins through extreme psychological and physical conditioning.
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Maxim Knight
Maxim Knight is an American actor best known for his role as Matt Mason on the science fiction television series "Falling Skies."
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C.
Storm Shadow
Storm Shadow is a long-range, air-launched cruise missile designed for precision strikes against high-value, hardened targets.
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D.
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is a fictional former U.S. Army military police major turned wandering vigilante hero, created by author Lee Child and featured in a popular series of thriller novels and film and television adaptations.
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E.
John Kenway
John Kenway is a cinematographer best known for his work on the acclaimed 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional CIA program
ⓘ
fictional covert operations program ⓘ fictional organization ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Central Intelligence Agency (fictional)
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Intelligence Agency
|
| appearsIn |
Jason Bourne (2016 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne series ⓘ
linked to:
Bourne film series
The Bourne Identity (2002 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Legacy (2012 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Legacy
The Bourne Supremacy (2004 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Supremacy (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum (novel) ⓘ Treadstone (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Treadstone
|
| controls |
David Webb
ⓘ
Jason Bourne ⓘ other elite assassins ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States (fictional setting) ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Ludlum ⓘ |
| ethicalStatusInStory | morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Jason Bourne universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Bourne film series
|
| genre |
action thriller
ⓘ
spy fiction ⓘ |
| medium |
films
ⓘ
novels ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| method |
behavioral control
ⓘ
extreme physical conditioning ⓘ extreme psychological conditioning ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonistic organization
ⓘ
catalyst for Jason Bourne's amnesia arc ⓘ |
| notableSubject | Jason Bourne ⓘ |
| operationalSecrecyLevel | black budget ⓘ |
| oversight |
CIA clandestine services (fictional)
ⓘ
linked to:
CIA Special Activities Division
|
| primaryActivity |
covert operations
ⓘ
targeted killings ⓘ training assassins ⓘ |
| programType |
assassination program
ⓘ
behavior modification program ⓘ black ops program ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Operation Blackbriar
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackbriar operation
Outcome program ⓘ |
| statusInNarrative |
deniable operation
ⓘ
top secret ⓘ |
| trainingFocus |
covert tradecraft
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firearms proficiency ⓘ hand-to-hand combat ⓘ surveillance and counter-surveillance ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Treadstone Description of subject: Treadstone is a covert CIA black-ops program in the Jason Bourne series that trains and controls elite assassins through extreme psychological and physical conditioning.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Treadstone
subject linked to:
novel "The Bourne Identity"
linked to: Treadstone
linked to: Treadstone
subject linked to:
Jeremy William Fredric Smith
subject linked to:
J. Randolph Bentley in Treadstone
subject linked to:
J. Randolph Bentley in Treadstone
subject linked to:
J. Randolph Bentley in Treadstone
linked to: Treadstone
subject linked to:
Ward Abbott in The Bourne Identity
subject linked to:
Ward Abbott in The Bourne Identity
linked to: Treadstone
subject linked to:
Ward Abbott in The Bourne Identity
linked to: Treadstone
linked to: Treadstone