ACME
E556218
ACME is the automated certificate management protocol used by Let’s Encrypt and others to securely issue and manage TLS/SSL certificates over the internet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ACME canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5919724 — 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 Context triple: [Let’s Encrypt, automationProtocol, ACME]
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A.
Atco
Atco is a small unincorporated community in Waterford Township, Camden County, New Jersey, known for its residential character and regional rail access.
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B.
Argyle Enterprises
Argyle Enterprises is a film production company best known for its involvement in classic mid-20th-century cinema, including the 1963 horror film "The Haunting."
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C.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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D.
Canada Company
Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
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E.
Echo Company
Echo Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known for its role in infantry combat operations.
- 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 Target entity description: ACME is the automated certificate management protocol used by Let’s Encrypt and others to securely issue and manage TLS/SSL certificates over the internet.
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A.
Atco
Atco is a small unincorporated community in Waterford Township, Camden County, New Jersey, known for its residential character and regional rail access.
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B.
Argyle Enterprises
Argyle Enterprises is a film production company best known for its involvement in classic mid-20th-century cinema, including the 1963 horror film "The Haunting."
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C.
Plank Industries
Plank Industries is a private investment and holding company owned by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank, with interests spanning real estate, hospitality, and other ventures, particularly in Baltimore.
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D.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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E.
Canada Company
Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet protocol
ⓘ
certificate management protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Automated Certificate Management Environment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| definedInRFC | RFC 8555 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designGoal |
eliminate manual certificate management
ⓘ
enable large-scale automated certificate deployment ⓘ improve HTTPS deployment ⓘ reduce certificate issuance errors ⓘ |
| fullName | Automated Certificate Management Environment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClientImplementation |
Caddy built-in client
ⓘ
Certbot NERFINISHED ⓘ acme.sh ⓘ dehydrated ⓘ lego ⓘ win-acme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
ACME account
ⓘ
authorization object ⓘ certificate resource ⓘ challenge object ⓘ nonce ⓘ order object ⓘ |
| intendedUse |
automated issuance of TLS certificates
ⓘ
automated renewal of TLS certificates ⓘ automated revocation of TLS certificates ⓘ |
| primaryCAUser | Let’s Encrypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
CA automation interface
ⓘ
client-server protocol ⓘ |
| securityProperty |
authentication of client accounts
ⓘ
integrity protection via JWS ⓘ proof of domain control ⓘ |
| standardizedBy |
Internet Engineering Task Force
ⓘ
surface form:
IETF
|
| status | Proposed Standard ⓘ |
| supports |
DNS-01 challenge
ⓘ
HTTP-01 challenge ⓘ TLS-ALPN-01 challenge ⓘ domain validation ⓘ |
| transportProtocol | HTTPS ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Buypass Go SSL
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Google Trust Services NERFINISHED ⓘ Let’s Encrypt NERFINISHED ⓘ ZeroSSL NERFINISHED ⓘ multiple public certificate authorities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
management of HTTPS server certificates
ⓘ
management of X.509 certificates ⓘ public key infrastructure automation ⓘ |
| uses |
JSON Web Signature
ⓘ
JSON Web Token NERFINISHED ⓘ REST-like HTTP API ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: ACME is the automated certificate management protocol used by Let’s Encrypt and others to securely issue and manage TLS/SSL certificates over the internet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.