Jobseeker’s Allowance
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Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T468906 — 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: Jobseeker’s Allowance Context triple: [Department for Work and Pensions, responsibleFor, Jobseeker’s Allowance]
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A.
Universal Credit
Universal Credit is a UK welfare benefit that combines several means-tested payments into a single monthly payment for people on low incomes or out of work.
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B.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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C.
Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to help cover the extra costs of living with their impairments.
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D.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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E.
Social Security Board
The Social Security Board was the federal agency originally established to administer and oversee the United States' Social Security program, including the registration of workers and the distribution of benefits.
- 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: Jobseeker’s Allowance Target entity description: 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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A.
Universal Credit
Universal Credit is a UK welfare benefit that combines several means-tested payments into a single monthly payment for people on low incomes or out of work.
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B.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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C.
Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to help cover the extra costs of living with their impairments.
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D.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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E.
Social Security Board
The Social Security Board was the federal agency originally established to administer and oversee the United States' Social Security program, including the registration of workers and the distribution of benefits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jobseeker’s Allowance type
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Jobseeker’s Allowance type ⓘ Jobseeker’s Allowance type ⓘ UK welfare benefit ⓘ social security benefit ⓘ unemployment benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| administeredThrough | Jobcentre Plus ⓘ |
| benefitCategory | working-age benefit ⓘ |
| benefitType |
contributory benefit
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means-tested benefit ⓘ |
| canBeSanctionedFor |
failure to attend mandatory appointments
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failure to meet work search requirements ⓘ |
| condition |
claimant must accept a claimant commitment agreement
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claimant must report changes of circumstances ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eligibilityRequirement |
based on National Insurance contributions
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based on recent National Insurance contributions ⓘ means-tested on household income and savings ⓘ must be actively looking for work ⓘ must be available for work ⓘ must be resident in the UK ⓘ must be unemployed or working fewer than a set number of hours per week ⓘ must have a right to reside in the UK ⓘ must usually be aged between 18 and State Pension age ⓘ |
| hasStatus | largely replaced for new income-based claims by Universal Credit ⓘ |
| hasType |
contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
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income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance ⓘ new-style Jobseeker’s Allowance ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1996 ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Jobseekers Act 1995 ⓘ |
| paidTo | eligible jobseekers ⓘ |
| paymentFrequency | usually paid every two weeks ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | direct payment into bank, building society or credit union account ⓘ |
| policyArea |
employment policy
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social security policy ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide financial support to unemployed people
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support people actively seeking work ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Universal Credit ⓘ |
| replaced | Unemployment Benefit ⓘ |
| requires |
attendance at Jobcentre Plus appointments
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claim form or online claim ⓘ claimant commitment ⓘ regular work search activities ⓘ |
| shortName | JSA ⓘ |
| supervisedBy | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
people who are out of work
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people working low hours and seeking more work ⓘ |
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: Jobseeker’s Allowance Description of subject: Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
contributory Jobseeker's Allowance
this entity surface form:
Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
this entity surface form:
Income Support
this entity surface form:
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
subject surface form:
Universal Credit
this entity surface form:
Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
this entity surface form:
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
this entity surface form:
contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
this entity surface form:
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
this entity surface form:
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
this entity surface form:
New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance