TEMPORA
E370092
TEMPORA is a British signals intelligence program run by GCHQ that intercepts and stores large volumes of internet and telecommunications data for analysis.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3577903 — 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: TEMPORA Context triple: [XKeyscore, relatedTo, TEMPORA]
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A.
Tempi
Tempi is a municipality in the Thessaly region of central Greece, known for its scenic location near the Vale of Tempe and along the Pinios River.
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B.
Tepiman
Tepiman is a subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken primarily in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, including languages such as O'odham and Tepehuán.
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C.
Templer
Templer is a surname most notably associated with British Field Marshal Gerald Templer, known for his role in the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Chronos
Chronos is a primordial Greek personification of time, distinct from the Titan Cronus, often depicted as an incorporeal, serpentine or ageless figure representing the eternal flow and destructive power of time.
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E.
Dimasa
Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Dimasa people in parts of Northeast India, including the Barak Valley region.
- 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: TEMPORA Target entity description: TEMPORA is a British signals intelligence program run by GCHQ that intercepts and stores large volumes of internet and telecommunications data for analysis.
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A.
Tempi
Tempi is a municipality in the Thessaly region of central Greece, known for its scenic location near the Vale of Tempe and along the Pinios River.
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B.
Tepiman
Tepiman is a subgroup of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken primarily in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, including languages such as O'odham and Tepehuán.
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C.
Templer
Templer is a surname most notably associated with British Field Marshal Gerald Templer, known for his role in the Malayan Emergency.
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D.
Chronos
Chronos is a primordial Greek personification of time, distinct from the Titan Cronus, often depicted as an incorporeal, serpentine or ageless figure representing the eternal flow and destructive power of time.
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E.
Dimasa
Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Dimasa people in parts of Northeast India, including the Barak Valley region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mass surveillance program
ⓘ
signals intelligence program ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Government Communications Headquarters
ⓘ
surface form:
GCHQ
|
| collects |
content data
ⓘ
internet data ⓘ metadata ⓘ telecommunications data ⓘ |
| controversy |
mass surveillance of citizens
ⓘ
privacy concerns ⓘ |
| cooperationWith | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfPartner |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticizedBy |
civil liberties organizations
ⓘ
privacy advocates ⓘ |
| dataProcessing |
analyst review
ⓘ
automated filtering ⓘ keyword selection ⓘ |
| dataSource | international fiber-optic cables ⓘ |
| dataType |
browsing history
ⓘ
emails ⓘ phone calls ⓘ social media communications ⓘ |
| disclosedBy | Edward Snowden ⓘ |
| disclosureYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| field |
electronic surveillance
ⓘ
signals intelligence ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | external communications ⓘ |
| legalFramework |
Intelligence Services Act 1994
ⓘ
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ⓘ |
| operator | Government Communications Headquarters ⓘ |
| purpose |
counterterrorism
ⓘ
intelligence analysis ⓘ national security ⓘ |
| relatedProgram |
PRISM
ⓘ
XKeyscore ⓘ |
| revealedIn |
Der Spiegel
ⓘ
The Guardian ⓘ |
| scale | large-scale data collection ⓘ |
| status | classified details ⓘ |
| storageDuration |
up to 3 days for content
ⓘ
up to 30 days for metadata ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
legal challenges in UK courts
ⓘ
public debate on surveillance in the UK ⓘ |
| subjectTo | oversight by UK intelligence commissioners ⓘ |
| supervisingAgency |
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
ⓘ
surface form:
UK Foreign Secretary
|
| uses | fiber-optic cable interception ⓘ |
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: TEMPORA Description of subject: TEMPORA is a British signals intelligence program run by GCHQ that intercepts and stores large volumes of internet and telecommunications data for analysis.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tempora