PRISM
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PRISM is a U.S. National Security Agency electronic surveillance program that collects and analyzes internet communications from major technology companies for intelligence and counterterrorism purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PRISM canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T604586 — 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: PRISM Context triple: [National Security Agency, notableProgram, PRISM]
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A.
Pandora
Pandora is a popular internet radio and music streaming service that offers personalized stations based on users’ musical preferences.
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B.
Pandora
Pandora is a figure from Greek mythology best known as the first woman whose curiosity led her to open a forbidden container, releasing all the evils into the world while leaving only hope inside.
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C.
Privas
Privas is a small town in southeastern France that serves as the prefecture (administrative capital) of the Ardèche department.
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D.
Sky Mirror
Sky Mirror is a large, concave stainless-steel outdoor sculpture by Anish Kapoor that reflects and distorts the sky and surroundings like a giant mirror.
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E.
Spectrum
Spectrum was a historic indoor sports and entertainment arena in Philadelphia that hosted professional hockey, basketball, concerts, and major events from the late 1960s until its closure and demolition.
- 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: PRISM Target entity description: PRISM is a U.S. National Security Agency electronic surveillance program that collects and analyzes internet communications from major technology companies for intelligence and counterterrorism purposes.
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A.
Pandora
Pandora is a popular internet radio and music streaming service that offers personalized stations based on users’ musical preferences.
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B.
Pandora
Pandora is a figure from Greek mythology best known as the first woman whose curiosity led her to open a forbidden container, releasing all the evils into the world while leaving only hope inside.
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C.
Privas
Privas is a small town in southeastern France that serves as the prefecture (administrative capital) of the Ardèche department.
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D.
Sky Mirror
Sky Mirror is a large, concave stainless-steel outdoor sculpture by Anish Kapoor that reflects and distorts the sky and surroundings like a giant mirror.
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E.
Spectrum
Spectrum was a historic indoor sports and entertainment arena in Philadelphia that hosted professional hockey, basketball, concerts, and major events from the late 1960s until its closure and demolition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electronic surveillance program
ⓘ
mass surveillance program ⓘ signals intelligence program ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management ⓘ |
| agencyTypeOfOperator | signals intelligence agency ⓘ |
| authorizedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| canIncidentallyCollect | communications of U.S. persons ⓘ |
| classification | Top Secret (before disclosure) ⓘ |
| collectionMethod | direct access to data from providers under court orders ⓘ |
| collects |
emails
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file transfers ⓘ metadata ⓘ photos ⓘ social networking details ⓘ stored data ⓘ video ⓘ video conferencing data ⓘ voice communications ⓘ |
| controversy |
alleged violations of civil liberties
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mass surveillance of internet users ⓘ privacy concerns ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| dataSourceType |
major internet service providers
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major technology companies ⓘ |
| dateOfPublicDisclosure | 2013 ⓘ |
| domain | internet communications ⓘ |
| focus | foreign intelligence targets using U.S.-based internet services ⓘ |
| governedBy | secret court orders ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| legalBasis |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 ⓘ
linked to:
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
|
| managedBy | Special Source Operations division of the NSA ⓘ |
| mediaOutletOfFirstReports |
The Guardian
ⓘ
The Washington Post ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Post
|
| operator | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| oversightBody |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
ⓘ
United States Congress ⓘ |
| purpose |
counterterrorism
ⓘ
foreign intelligence surveillance ⓘ intelligence collection ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Boundless Informant
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Upstream collection ⓘ XKeyscore ⓘ |
| revealedToPublicBy | Edward Snowden ⓘ |
| startDate | 2007 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | global debate on surveillance and privacy ⓘ |
| targets | non-U.S. persons located outside the United States ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
internet surveillance
ⓘ
signals intelligence ⓘ |
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: PRISM Description of subject: PRISM is a U.S. National Security Agency electronic surveillance program that collects and analyzes internet communications from major technology companies for intelligence and counterterrorism purposes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.