CA ACF2
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CA ACF2 is a mainframe security software product from Broadcom (formerly CA Technologies) that provides access control, authentication, and auditing for IBM z/OS environments, serving as an alternative to IBM's RACF.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CA ACF2 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8706741 — 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: CA ACF2 Context triple: [RACF, competesWith, CA ACF2]
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A.
CA 2
CA 2 is a California state highway that runs from Santa Monica through Los Angeles into the San Gabriel Mountains, serving as both an urban thoroughfare and a scenic mountain route.
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B.
CA 4
CA 4 is a state highway in California that runs east–west from the San Francisco Bay Area across the Central Valley into the Sierra Nevada.
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C.
CA 60
CA 60 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects Los Angeles to the Inland Empire and serves as a key commuter and freight corridor.
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D.
ACFC
ACFC is the commonly used abbreviation for Angel City FC, a professional women’s soccer club based in Los Angeles that competes in the National Women’s Soccer League.
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E.
ACFC
ACFC is the expert advisory body of the Council of Europe responsible for monitoring and evaluating how states implement the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
- 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: CA ACF2 Target entity description: CA ACF2 is a mainframe security software product from Broadcom (formerly CA Technologies) that provides access control, authentication, and auditing for IBM z/OS environments, serving as an alternative to IBM's RACF.
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A.
CA 2
CA 2 is a California state highway that runs from Santa Monica through Los Angeles into the San Gabriel Mountains, serving as both an urban thoroughfare and a scenic mountain route.
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B.
CA 4
CA 4 is a state highway in California that runs east–west from the San Francisco Bay Area across the Central Valley into the Sierra Nevada.
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C.
CA 60
CA 60 is a major east–west freeway in Southern California that connects Los Angeles to the Inland Empire and serves as a key commuter and freight corridor.
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D.
ACFC
ACFC is the commonly used abbreviation for Angel City FC, a professional women’s soccer club based in Los Angeles that competes in the National Women’s Soccer League.
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E.
ACFC
ACFC is the expert advisory body of the Council of Europe responsible for monitoring and evaluating how states implement the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
access control system
ⓘ
commercial software product ⓘ mainframe security software ⓘ |
| alternativeTo |
IBM RACF
ⓘ
linked to:
RACF
|
| competesWith |
IBM RACF
ⓘ
linked to:
RACF
Top Secret ⓘ |
| deploymentModel | on-premises ⓘ |
| developer |
Broadcom Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadcom
|
| formerDeveloper | CA Technologies ⓘ |
| formerlyOfferedBy | Computer Associates International ⓘ |
| industry | mainframe security ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
IBM z/OS
ⓘ
linked to:
z/OS
z/OS ⓘ |
| partOf | Broadcom mainframe security portfolio ⓘ |
| platform |
IBM mainframe
ⓘ
z/OS mainframe ⓘ |
| providesFunction |
access control
ⓘ
auditing ⓘ authentication ⓘ resource protection ⓘ security logging ⓘ user authorization ⓘ |
| runsOn |
IBM System z hardware
ⓘ
linked to:
IBM System z
z/Architecture ⓘ |
| securityModel |
resource-based access control
ⓘ
rule-based access control ⓘ |
| softwareGenre |
access control software
ⓘ
auditing software ⓘ authentication software ⓘ security software ⓘ |
| supportsEnvironment |
IBM z/OS environments
ⓘ
enterprise mainframe environments ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
audit trails
ⓘ
dataset protection ⓘ general resource protection ⓘ granular resource rules ⓘ logonid-based security ⓘ security reporting ⓘ |
| targetUser |
mainframe administrators
ⓘ
security administrators ⓘ system programmers ⓘ |
| usedFor |
centralized security administration
ⓘ
compliance enforcement on z/OS ⓘ protection of mainframe data ⓘ |
| vendor | Broadcom Mainframe Software ⓘ |
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: CA ACF2 Description of subject: CA ACF2 is a mainframe security software product from Broadcom (formerly CA Technologies) that provides access control, authentication, and auditing for IBM z/OS environments, serving as an alternative to IBM's RACF.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.