COBRA
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COBRA is a U.S. federal law that allows workers and their families to continue group health insurance coverage for limited periods after job loss or other qualifying events.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COBRA canonical | 5 |
| COBRA health insurance law | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T263770 — 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: COBRA Context triple: [Employee Benefits Security Administration, legalAuthority, COBRA]
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A.
MCO
MCO is the National Rail station code used to identify Oxford Road railway station in Manchester, England.
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B.
Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act is a landmark U.S. healthcare reform law enacted in 2010 that expanded health insurance coverage, introduced consumer protections, and sought to reduce overall healthcare costs.
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C.
ACA
ACA is a professional scientific organization that promotes the study and application of crystallography and structural science, primarily in North America.
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D.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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E.
CIT
CIT is the commonly used acronym for the Center for Information Technology, an organization focused on advancing computing and information systems.
- 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: COBRA Target entity description: COBRA is a U.S. federal law that allows workers and their families to continue group health insurance coverage for limited periods after job loss or other qualifying events.
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A.
MCO
MCO is the National Rail station code used to identify Oxford Road railway station in Manchester, England.
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B.
Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act is a landmark U.S. healthcare reform law enacted in 2010 that expanded health insurance coverage, introduced consumer protections, and sought to reduce overall healthcare costs.
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C.
ACA
ACA is a professional scientific organization that promotes the study and application of crystallography and structural science, primarily in North America.
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D.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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E.
CIT
CIT is the commonly used acronym for the Center for Information Technology, an organization focused on advancing computing and information systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
ⓘ
health insurance continuation law ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
employers with 20 or more employees
ⓘ
group health plans ⓘ private-sector employers ⓘ state and local government employers ⓘ |
| beneficiary |
covered employees
ⓘ
dependent children of covered employees ⓘ spouses of covered employees ⓘ |
| costResponsibility |
beneficiary generally pays full premium
ⓘ
beneficiary may pay up to 102 percent of the cost of coverage ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverageDuration |
typically 18 months for job loss or reduction in hours
ⓘ
up to 36 months for certain other qualifying events ⓘ |
| coverageType | group health insurance ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
ⓘ
Internal Revenue Service ⓘ U.S. Department of Labor ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of Labor
|
| excludes |
certain church-related organizations
ⓘ
federal government health plans ⓘ |
| fullName | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ⓘ |
| givesRightTo | elect continuation of group health coverage ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| legalArea |
employee benefits law
ⓘ
health law ⓘ labor law ⓘ |
| provides | temporary continuation of group health insurance coverage ⓘ |
| purpose | to allow workers and their families to continue group health coverage after qualifying events ⓘ |
| qualifyingEvent |
a dependent child losing dependent status under plan rules
ⓘ
death of the covered employee ⓘ divorce or legal separation from the covered employee ⓘ job loss ⓘ reduction in hours of employment ⓘ transition between jobs ⓘ |
| regulates | continuation of group health insurance coverage ⓘ |
| requires |
employers to offer continuation coverage after qualifying events
ⓘ
plan administrators to provide COBRA election notices ⓘ |
| sector | health insurance ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
employee benefits
ⓘ
health coverage continuation ⓘ |
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: COBRA Description of subject: COBRA is a U.S. federal law that allows workers and their families to continue group health insurance coverage for limited periods after job loss or other qualifying events.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: COBRA