Canada Pension Plan
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The Canada Pension Plan is a mandatory public retirement and disability insurance program that provides income benefits to eligible workers and their families across most of Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Canada Pension Plan canonical | 10 |
| Canada Pension Plan Act | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T280440 — 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: Canada Pension Plan Context triple: [Lester B. Pearson, introducedPolicy, Canada Pension Plan]
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A.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is a U.S. federal agency that insures and protects the pension benefits of workers in private-sector defined benefit plans when their employers’ plans fail.
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B.
Old-Age Reserve Account
The Old-Age Reserve Account was a federal trust fund established to accumulate and manage payroll tax revenues used to finance retirement benefits under the early U.S. Social Security system.
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C.
United States Social Security system
The United States Social Security system is a federal program that provides retirement, disability, and survivors’ benefits funded primarily through payroll taxes to offer income security for eligible workers and their families.
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D.
Canada
Canada is a large North American country known for its vast natural landscapes, bilingual English-French heritage, and stable parliamentary democracy.
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E.
Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
- 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: Canada Pension Plan Target entity description: The Canada Pension Plan is a mandatory public retirement and disability insurance program that provides income benefits to eligible workers and their families across most of Canada.
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A.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is a U.S. federal agency that insures and protects the pension benefits of workers in private-sector defined benefit plans when their employers’ plans fail.
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B.
Old-Age Reserve Account
The Old-Age Reserve Account was a federal trust fund established to accumulate and manage payroll tax revenues used to finance retirement benefits under the early U.S. Social Security system.
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C.
United States Social Security system
The United States Social Security system is a federal program that provides retirement, disability, and survivors’ benefits funded primarily through payroll taxes to offer income security for eligible workers and their families.
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D.
Canada
Canada is a large North American country known for its vast natural landscapes, bilingual English-French heritage, and stable parliamentary democracy.
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E.
Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public pension plan
ⓘ
social insurance program ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CPP ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Employment and Social Development Canada
ⓘ
Service Canada ⓘ |
| benefitFormula | earnings-related calculation based on contributory period ⓘ |
| benefitType |
children’s benefit
ⓘ
death benefit ⓘ disability benefit ⓘ retirement pension ⓘ survivor’s pension ⓘ |
| contributionBase | pensionable earnings ⓘ |
| contributionLimit | year’s maximum pensionable earnings ⓘ |
| coordinatedWith | Quebec Pension Plan ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| covers | workers in Canada outside Quebec ⓘ |
| disabilityDefinition | severe and prolonged disability ⓘ |
| earliestRetirementPensionStartAge | 60 ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
minimum contributory period
ⓘ
valid contributions based on employment earnings ⓘ |
| enactedBy | Parliament of Canada ⓘ |
| excludes | most workers in Quebec ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
employee contributions
ⓘ
employer contributions ⓘ self-employed contributions ⓘ |
| governedBy | federal-provincial agreements ⓘ |
| hasFeature | indexation to inflation ⓘ |
| hasFund |
Canada Pension Plan Fund
ⓘ
linked to:
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
|
| indexationMeasure |
Consumer Price Index of Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Consumer Price Index
|
| investmentManagedBy | Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Government of Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
|
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| latestRetirementPensionStartAge | 70 ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Canada Pension Plan Act
ⓘ
linked to:
Canada Pension Plan
|
| paysTo |
contributors
ⓘ
dependent children of disabled or deceased contributors ⓘ estates of deceased contributors ⓘ surviving spouses or common-law partners ⓘ |
| purpose |
provide disability income protection
ⓘ
provide retirement income ⓘ provide survivor income benefits ⓘ |
| reform | enhancement measures phased in from 2019 ⓘ |
| retirementPensionNormalStartAge | 65 ⓘ |
| startDate | 1966-01-01 ⓘ |
| type |
contributory pension plan
ⓘ
disability insurance program ⓘ earnings-related pension plan ⓘ mandatory public retirement program ⓘ |
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: Canada Pension Plan Description of subject: The Canada Pension Plan is a mandatory public retirement and disability insurance program that provides income benefits to eligible workers and their families across most of Canada.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.