Boundless Informant
E370091
Boundless Informant is an NSA data analysis and visualization tool used to track and summarize global electronic surveillance metadata.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boundless Informant canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3577849 — 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: Boundless Informant Context triple: [PRISM, relatedTo, Boundless Informant]
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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C.
The Knowledge
The Knowledge is a socially conscious R&B/New Jack Swing track by Janet Jackson from her landmark album "Rhythm Nation 1814," emphasizing the importance of education and awareness.
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D.
The Unknowable
The Unknowable is a philosophical concept denoting aspects of reality or truth that are fundamentally beyond human comprehension or empirical investigation.
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E.
The Infinite Plan
The Infinite Plan is a novel by Isabel Allende that follows the tumultuous life of a man seeking identity and meaning against the backdrop of mid-20th-century American social and political upheaval.
- 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: Boundless Informant Target entity description: Boundless Informant is an NSA data analysis and visualization tool used to track and summarize global electronic surveillance metadata.
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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C.
The Knowledge
The Knowledge is a socially conscious R&B/New Jack Swing track by Janet Jackson from her landmark album "Rhythm Nation 1814," emphasizing the importance of education and awareness.
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D.
The Unknowable
The Unknowable is a philosophical concept denoting aspects of reality or truth that are fundamentally beyond human comprehension or empirical investigation.
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E.
The Infinite Plan
The Infinite Plan is a novel by Isabel Allende that follows the tumultuous life of a man seeking identity and meaning against the backdrop of mid-20th-century American social and political upheaval.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
data analysis tool
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surveillance program ⓘ visualization tool ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
NSA mass surveillance
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global surveillance ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | Top Secret ⓘ |
| collectsContent | false ⓘ |
| collectsMetadata | true ⓘ |
| controversy | raised concerns about scope of NSA surveillance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dataTypeAnalyzed |
electronic communications metadata
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internet metadata ⓘ telephony metadata ⓘ |
| developer | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| disclosedBy |
Der Spiegel
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The Guardian ⓘ |
| domain | signals intelligence ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
charts
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interactive maps ⓘ tables ⓘ |
| hasOutput |
heat maps of collection intensity
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statistical summaries of metadata collection ⓘ |
| leakedBy | Edward Snowden ⓘ |
| legalContext |
United States Intelligence Community
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surface form:
U.S. foreign intelligence authorities
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| monitors |
foreign intelligence targets
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global communications networks ⓘ |
| operatedBy | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| purpose |
to analyze metadata from global electronic surveillance
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to track global surveillance coverage ⓘ to visualize metadata collection volumes ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
PRISM surveillance program
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surface form:
NSA call detail record programs
PRISM ⓘ XKeyscore ⓘ |
| revealedIn | 2013 mass surveillance disclosures ⓘ |
| securityDomain |
United States Intelligence Community
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surface form:
US intelligence community
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| supportsAggregationBy |
geographic region
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signal type ⓘ |
| supportsFilteringBy |
collection program
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country ⓘ time period ⓘ |
| tracks |
collection statistics per country
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collection statistics per program ⓘ global surveillance metadata ⓘ |
| usedBy | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| visualizes |
collection programs contributions
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trends in metadata collection over time ⓘ volume of intercepted metadata by country ⓘ |
| yearOfPublicDisclosure | 2013 ⓘ |
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: Boundless Informant Description of subject: Boundless Informant is an NSA data analysis and visualization tool used to track and summarize global electronic surveillance metadata.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
PRISM