Income Support
E283936
Income Support is a means-tested UK welfare benefit that provides financial assistance to people on low incomes who are not required to be available for full-time work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Income Support canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2606121 — 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: Income Support Context triple: [Cold Weather Payment, relatedTo, Income Support]
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A.
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support and work-related assistance to people whose ability to work is limited by illness or disability.
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B.
Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable federal tax credit in the United States that supplements the wages of low- to moderate-income workers, particularly those with children, to reduce poverty and encourage employment.
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C.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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D.
Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income is a U.S. federal needs-based program that provides monthly cash benefits to low-income individuals who are aged, blind, or disabled.
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E.
Aid to Dependent Children
Aid to Dependent Children was a New Deal-era federal assistance program that provided cash support to low-income families with children, particularly single-mother households, in the United States.
- 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: Income Support Target entity description: Income Support is a means-tested UK welfare benefit that provides financial assistance to people on low incomes who are not required to be available for full-time work.
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A.
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support and work-related assistance to people whose ability to work is limited by illness or disability.
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B.
Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit is a refundable federal tax credit in the United States that supplements the wages of low- to moderate-income workers, particularly those with children, to reduce poverty and encourage employment.
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C.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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D.
Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income is a U.S. federal needs-based program that provides monthly cash benefits to low-income individuals who are aged, blind, or disabled.
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E.
Aid to Dependent Children
Aid to Dependent Children was a New Deal-era federal assistance program that provided cash support to low-income families with children, particularly single-mother households, in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK welfare benefit
ⓘ
means-tested benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| benefitType |
income-related benefit
ⓘ
means-tested social security benefit ⓘ |
| calculationBasis | applicable amount minus income ⓘ |
| closedToNewClaims | yes ⓘ |
| closedToNewClaimsInGreatBritain | yes ⓘ |
| component |
carer premium
ⓘ
disability premium ⓘ family premium (historically) ⓘ pensioner premium ⓘ personal allowance ⓘ premiums for specific circumstances ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currency | Pound sterling ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
age 16 or over
ⓘ
below Pension Credit qualifying age ⓘ capital below an upper limit ⓘ habitually resident in the UK ⓘ low income ⓘ must belong to a prescribed category such as lone parent or carer ⓘ not in full-time education except in specified cases ⓘ not required to be available for full-time work ⓘ partner working fewer than 24 hours per week ⓘ working fewer than 16 hours per week ⓘ |
| introducedInJurisdiction |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| legislatedBy |
Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992
ⓘ
subordinate social security regulations ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Council Tax
ⓘ
surface form:
Council Tax Benefit (historically)
Housing Benefit ⓘ NHS prescription charge exemptions ⓘ free school meals eligibility ⓘ other passported benefits ⓘ |
| meansTested | yes ⓘ |
| payableTo |
couples
ⓘ
individual claimants ⓘ |
| payFrequency | fortnightly ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide financial assistance to people on low incomes
ⓘ
support people who are not required to be available for full-time work ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Universal Credit ⓘ |
| requiresNationalInsuranceNumber | yes ⓘ |
| shortName | IS ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
carers
ⓘ
lone parents ⓘ people on certain training schemes ⓘ some people incapable of work ⓘ |
| taxable | no ⓘ |
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: Income Support Description of subject: Income Support is a means-tested UK welfare benefit that provides financial assistance to people on low incomes who are not required to be available for full-time work.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.