TSDB
E242112
TSDB (Terrorist Screening Database) is the U.S. government’s central consolidated watchlist of known or suspected terrorists used for screening and security purposes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TSDB canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2184672 — 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: TSDB Context triple: [Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, feeds, TSDB]
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A.
RocksDB
RocksDB is a high-performance, embeddable key–value store developed by Facebook, optimized for fast storage on flash and solid-state drives using a Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM) architecture.
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B.
TokuDB
TokuDB is a high-performance storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB designed for large-scale, write-intensive workloads using Fractal Tree indexing to improve compression and insertion speed.
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C.
DSN
DSN is the acronym for NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of large radio antennas used to communicate with and track interplanetary spacecraft and distant space missions.
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D.
AVOS Systems
AVOS Systems was a technology company co-founded by YouTube’s creators that focused on developing and managing online consumer web services and social bookmarking platforms.
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E.
RDS
RDS is a Canadian French-language sports television network that broadcasts a wide range of professional and amateur sporting events.
- 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: TSDB Target entity description: TSDB (Terrorist Screening Database) is the U.S. government’s central consolidated watchlist of known or suspected terrorists used for screening and security purposes.
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A.
RocksDB
RocksDB is a high-performance, embeddable key–value store developed by Facebook, optimized for fast storage on flash and solid-state drives using a Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM) architecture.
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B.
TokuDB
TokuDB is a high-performance storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB designed for large-scale, write-intensive workloads using Fractal Tree indexing to improve compression and insertion speed.
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C.
DSN
DSN is the acronym for NASA’s Deep Space Network, a global system of large radio antennas used to communicate with and track interplanetary spacecraft and distant space missions.
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D.
AVOS Systems
AVOS Systems was a technology company co-founded by YouTube’s creators that focused on developing and managing online consumer web services and social bookmarking platforms.
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E.
RDS
RDS is a Canadian French-language sports television network that broadcasts a wide range of professional and amateur sporting events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. government database
ⓘ
terrorist watchlist ⓘ |
| administeredFrom |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| contains |
known terrorists
ⓘ
suspected terrorists ⓘ |
| containsDataType |
aliases
ⓘ
dates of birth ⓘ names ⓘ other identifying information ⓘ passport numbers ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Terrorist Screening Center ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
due process concerns
ⓘ
lack of transparency ⓘ potential inaccuracies ⓘ |
| feeds |
No Fly List
ⓘ
Selectee List ⓘ various screening systems ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation | TSDB self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| legalAuthority | U.S. counterterrorism authorities ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ⓘ
Terrorist Screening Center ⓘ |
| operatedUnder | U.S. counterterrorism policies ⓘ |
| partOf | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| purpose |
identify known or suspected terrorists during screening
ⓘ
prevent terrorist travel ⓘ support counterterrorism investigations ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
No Fly List
ⓘ
Selectee List ⓘ terrorist watchlist system ⓘ |
| standsFor |
Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment
ⓘ
surface form:
Terrorist Screening Database
|
| subjectTo | U.S. privacy and civil liberties oversight ⓘ |
| usedBy |
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
ⓘ
surface form:
Customs and Border Protection
United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Homeland Security
United States Department of State ⓘ
surface form:
Department of State
Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ Transportation Security Administration ⓘ certain foreign partners ⓘ state and local law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
aviation security
ⓘ
border security ⓘ immigration screening ⓘ law enforcement screening ⓘ security screening ⓘ terrorism screening ⓘ visa screening ⓘ watchlist matching ⓘ |
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: TSDB Description of subject: TSDB (Terrorist Screening Database) is the U.S. government’s central consolidated watchlist of known or suspected terrorists used for screening and security purposes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terrorist Screening Database