ACME Time Net
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ACME Time Net is the time-traveling detective agency organization in the Carmen Sandiego franchise that pursues criminals across different historical eras.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACME Time Net canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773737 — 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: ACME Time Net Context triple: [Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, featuresOrganization, ACME Time Net]
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A.
Time Agency
The Time Agency is a futuristic organization in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universe responsible for regulating and manipulating time travel, of which Captain Jack Harkness was once a member.
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B.
The Time Regulation Institute
The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical novel by Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar that critiques modernization and bureaucracy in early 20th-century Turkey.
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C.
Time Changer
Time Changer is a 2002 Christian science fiction film about a 19th-century Bible professor who time-travels to the modern era to witness the moral consequences of separating Jesus' teachings from everyday life.
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D.
Time Agent
A Time Agent is a member of a futuristic organization that travels through time to investigate, police, and sometimes manipulate temporal events.
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E.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
- 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: ACME Time Net Target entity description: ACME Time Net is the time-traveling detective agency organization in the Carmen Sandiego franchise that pursues criminals across different historical eras.
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A.
Time Agency
The Time Agency is a futuristic organization in the Doctor Who and Torchwood universe responsible for regulating and manipulating time travel, of which Captain Jack Harkness was once a member.
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B.
The Time Regulation Institute
The Time Regulation Institute is a satirical novel by Turkish author Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar that critiques modernization and bureaucracy in early 20th-century Turkey.
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C.
Time Changer
Time Changer is a 2002 Christian science fiction film about a 19th-century Bible professor who time-travels to the modern era to witness the moral consequences of separating Jesus' teachings from everyday life.
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D.
Time Agent
A Time Agent is a member of a futuristic organization that travels through time to investigate, police, and sometimes manipulate temporal events.
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E.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional organization
ⓘ
time-traveling detective agency ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Carmen Sandiego educational media
ⓘ
Carmen Sandiego television adaptations ⓘ
linked to:
Carmen Sandiego (TV series)
Carmen Sandiego video games ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ACME Detective Agency ⓘ |
| educationalFocus |
cultural literacy
ⓘ
geography education ⓘ history education ⓘ |
| employs |
historical investigation specialists
ⓘ
time-traveling agents ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | not a real-world organization ⓘ |
| genre |
children’s media
ⓘ
educational adventure ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
historical events
ⓘ
world history ⓘ |
| hasEnemyType |
historical artifact smugglers
ⓘ
time-traveling thieves ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
capturing time-traveling criminals
ⓘ
protecting history from alteration ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | supports player or protagonist in tracking criminals ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | law-enforcement organization ⓘ |
| operatesInFictionalUniverse |
Carmen Sandiego universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
|
| opposes | V.I.L.E. ⓘ |
| partOf |
Carmen Sandiego franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
|
| primaryActivity | pursuing criminals across different historical eras ⓘ |
| protects |
historical timeline
ⓘ
integrity of history ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
ACME
ⓘ
Carmen Sandiego ⓘ
linked to:
Carmen Sandiego (TV series)
|
| settingFeature |
multiple historical eras
ⓘ
various world locations ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
students ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | time travel technology ⓘ |
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: ACME Time Net Description of subject: ACME Time Net is the time-traveling detective agency organization in the Carmen Sandiego franchise that pursues criminals across different historical eras.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.