The Work Number
E414399
The Work Number is a widely used employment and income verification service that provides automated, third-party access to payroll data for lenders, employers, and government agencies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Work Number canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4135693 — 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: The Work Number Context triple: [Talx, notableProduct, The Work Number]
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A.
A Job to Live
A Job to Live is a work by British politician and author Shirley Williams that reflects her engagement with social and political issues.
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B.
The Job
The Job is a film featuring actor John Ortiz in a significant role.
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C.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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D.
The Open Work
The Open Work is a seminal theoretical text by Umberto Eco that explores the role of openness, ambiguity, and reader participation in the interpretation of modern art and literature.
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E.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
- 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: The Work Number Target entity description: The Work Number is a widely used employment and income verification service that provides automated, third-party access to payroll data for lenders, employers, and government agencies.
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A.
A Job to Live
A Job to Live is a work by British politician and author Shirley Williams that reflects her engagement with social and political issues.
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B.
The Job
The Job is a film featuring actor John Ortiz in a significant role.
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C.
The Unlocking
"The Unlocking" is a song by hip hop band The Roots from their influential 1995 album *Do You Want More?!!!??!* that showcases their jazz-rap style and live-instrumentation approach.
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D.
The Open Work
The Open Work is a seminal theoretical text by Umberto Eco that explores the role of openness, ambiguity, and reader participation in the interpretation of modern art and literature.
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E.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
consumer reporting agency
ⓘ
employment and income verification service ⓘ software as a service platform ⓘ |
| accessMethod |
API integration
ⓘ
online portal ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Equifax
ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax Workforce Solutions
|
| dataSource |
employer payroll systems
ⓘ
payroll processors ⓘ |
| dataType |
employment data
ⓘ
employment start and end dates ⓘ income data ⓘ job title information ⓘ rate of pay ⓘ year-to-date earnings ⓘ |
| feature |
audit trails for verifications
ⓘ
integration with payroll providers ⓘ real-time verification responses ⓘ standardized verification reports ⓘ |
| industry |
data analytics
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ human resources technology ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Equifax ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Equifax ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Equifax
ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax Inc.
|
| primaryMarket |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| provides |
automated access to payroll data
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employment history information ⓘ income information ⓘ verification reports ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| regulatoryClassification | consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act ⓘ |
| requires |
consumer consent in many use cases
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permissible purpose under the Fair Credit Reporting Act ⓘ |
| serviceType |
automated verification
ⓘ
employment verification ⓘ income verification ⓘ third-party verification ⓘ |
| supportsUseCase |
auto lending
ⓘ
credit card underwriting ⓘ employment screening ⓘ fraud prevention ⓘ government benefits eligibility verification ⓘ mortgage underwriting ⓘ tenant screening ⓘ |
| usedBy |
background screening companies
ⓘ
employers ⓘ government agencies ⓘ lenders ⓘ property managers ⓘ |
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: The Work Number Description of subject: The Work Number is a widely used employment and income verification service that provides automated, third-party access to payroll data for lenders, employers, and government agencies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.