XKeyscore
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XKeyscore is a highly classified NSA surveillance system designed to search and analyze vast amounts of global internet and communications data in real time.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| XKeyscore canonical | 6 |
| XKeyscore surveillance system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T604587 — 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: XKeyscore Context triple: [National Security Agency, notableProgram, XKeyscore]
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A.
Operation Bluecoat
Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive launched in late July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy to seize key terrain south of Caumont and support the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
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B.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
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C.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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D.
USA FREEDOM Act
The USA FREEDOM Act is a 2015 U.S. law that reformed government surveillance authorities, notably curbing bulk collection of Americans’ phone records while renewing and modifying key intelligence-gathering powers.
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E.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a specialized U.S. federal court that reviews and authorizes government requests for electronic surveillance and other intelligence-gathering activities for national security purposes.
- 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: XKeyscore Target entity description: XKeyscore is a highly classified NSA surveillance system designed to search and analyze vast amounts of global internet and communications data in real time.
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A.
Operation Bluecoat
Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive launched in late July 1944 during the Battle of Normandy to seize key terrain south of Caumont and support the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead.
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B.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
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C.
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who became internationally known in 2013 for leaking classified documents revealing global mass surveillance programs.
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D.
USA FREEDOM Act
The USA FREEDOM Act is a 2015 U.S. law that reformed government surveillance authorities, notably curbing bulk collection of Americans’ phone records while renewing and modifying key intelligence-gathering powers.
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E.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a specialized U.S. federal court that reviews and authorizes government requests for electronic surveillance and other intelligence-gathering activities for national security purposes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
signals intelligence tool
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surveillance system ⓘ |
| canSearch |
browsing histories
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content of communications ⓘ emails ⓘ metadata ⓘ online chats ⓘ social media activity ⓘ |
| capability |
keyword-based search
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pattern analysis ⓘ real-time data analysis ⓘ retrospective query of stored data ⓘ selector-based search ⓘ target profiling ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | Top Secret ⓘ |
| controversy |
mass surveillance of civilians
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potential violation of civil liberties ⓘ privacy concerns ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dataSource |
internet traffic
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network backbone infrastructure ⓘ satellite communications ⓘ telephone communications ⓘ undersea cables ⓘ |
| developer | National Security Agency ⓘ |
| disclosureYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| leakedDocumentsPublishedBy |
Der Spiegel
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The Guardian ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Five Eyes alliance
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surface form:
Five Eyes intelligence alliance
National Security Agency ⓘ |
| purpose |
counterterrorism
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data analysis ⓘ foreign intelligence gathering ⓘ mass surveillance ⓘ signals intelligence collection ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Boundless Informant
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PRISM ⓘ TEMPORA ⓘ |
| revealedBy | Edward Snowden ⓘ |
| stores |
communications metadata
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raw communications data ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usedFor |
analysis of previously collected data
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identification of communication patterns ⓘ selection of targets for further surveillance ⓘ |
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: XKeyscore Description of subject: XKeyscore is a highly classified NSA surveillance system designed to search and analyze vast amounts of global internet and communications data in real time.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
XKeyscore surveillance system
subject surface form:
PRISM