Widowed Parent’s Allowance
E510410
Widowed Parent’s Allowance was a UK social security benefit that provided weekly financial support to widowed parents with dependent children before being superseded by Bereavement Support Payment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Widowed Parent’s Allowance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5314489 — 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: Widowed Parent’s Allowance Context triple: [Bereavement Support Payment, replaced, Widowed Parent’s Allowance]
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A.
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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B.
Bereavement Support Payment
Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
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C.
Incapacity Benefit
Incapacity Benefit was a UK social security payment that provided financial support to people who were unable to work due to illness or disability before being superseded by Employment and Support Allowance.
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D.
Maternity Allowance
Maternity Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support to pregnant women and new mothers who do not qualify for statutory maternity pay, typically based on their recent work and National Insurance record.
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E.
Carer’s Credit
Carer’s Credit is a UK National Insurance credit that helps people who care for someone for at least 20 hours a week protect their State Pension entitlement without having to make contributions.
- 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: Widowed Parent’s Allowance Target entity description: Widowed Parent’s Allowance was a UK social security benefit that provided weekly financial support to widowed parents with dependent children before being superseded by Bereavement Support Payment.
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A.
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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B.
Bereavement Support Payment
Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
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C.
Incapacity Benefit
Incapacity Benefit was a UK social security payment that provided financial support to people who were unable to work due to illness or disability before being superseded by Employment and Support Allowance.
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D.
Maternity Allowance
Maternity Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support to pregnant women and new mothers who do not qualify for statutory maternity pay, typically based on their recent work and National Insurance record.
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E.
Carer’s Credit
Carer’s Credit is a UK National Insurance credit that helps people who care for someone for at least 20 hours a week protect their State Pension entitlement without having to make contributions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK welfare benefit
ⓘ
social security benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| affectedByReform | Welfare Reform Act 2012 ⓘ |
| beneficiaryStatus |
surviving civil partner
ⓘ
surviving spouse ⓘ |
| benefitCategory | bereavement benefits ⓘ |
| benefitType | weekly cash benefit ⓘ |
| closedToNewClaimants | yes ⓘ |
| closedToNewClaimantsFrom | 6 April 2017 ⓘ |
| continuesForExistingClaimants | yes ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
claimant must be a widow, widower or surviving civil partner
ⓘ
claimant must be under State Pension age ⓘ claimant must have at least one dependent child ⓘ deceased spouse or civil partner must have paid sufficient National Insurance contributions ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
National Insurance system
ⓘ
linked to:
National Insurance Fund
|
| interactionWith |
Child Benefit
ⓘ
linked to:
Child Benefit Act 1975
Income Support ⓘ Tax Credits ⓘ |
| introducedAsReformOf | earlier widow’s benefits system ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| legalBasis | UK social security legislation ⓘ |
| linkedTo | National Insurance contribution record of deceased partner ⓘ |
| mayAffect | entitlement to means-tested benefits ⓘ |
| meansTested | no ⓘ |
| payableFor | dependent children of the deceased ⓘ |
| payableUntil |
claimant reaches State Pension age
ⓘ
end of Child Benefit entitlement for the youngest child ⓘ |
| paymentFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| phasedOut | yes ⓘ |
| policyChangeReason | replaced by a time-limited lump-sum and instalment system under Bereavement Support Payment ⓘ |
| policyGoal | mitigate loss of income following bereavement ⓘ |
| providedTo | widowed parents ⓘ |
| purpose | financial support for widowed parents with dependent children ⓘ |
| relatedBenefit |
Bereavement Allowance
ⓘ
Widow’s Pension ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Bereavement Support Payment ⓘ |
| requiresClaim | yes ⓘ |
| requiresCondition |
claimant must be responsible for a child or qualifying young person
ⓘ
deceased must not have been divorced from claimant at time of death ⓘ |
| targetGroup | low and middle income widowed families ⓘ |
| taxable | yes ⓘ |
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: Widowed Parent’s Allowance Description of subject: Widowed Parent’s Allowance was a UK social security benefit that provided weekly financial support to widowed parents with dependent children before being superseded by Bereavement Support Payment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.