Disability Discrimination Act 1995
E718158
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is a UK law that established key rights and protections for disabled people by prohibiting discrimination in areas such as employment, access to goods and services, and education.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8189315 — 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: Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Context triple: [Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, legalBasis, Disability Discrimination Act 1995]
-
A.
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a landmark U.S. civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in areas such as employment, public services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications.
-
B.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a landmark U.S. civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance and in federal employment.
-
C.
Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992
The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992 were U.S. federal legislative updates that strengthened civil rights protections and expanded vocational rehabilitation and independent living services for people with disabilities.
-
D.
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the section of U.S. federal law that prohibits disability-based discrimination by state and local governments and requires their programs, services, and activities to be accessible to people with disabilities.
-
E.
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the section of U.S. federal law that prohibits disability-based discrimination by private businesses and other places of public accommodation, requiring them to provide equal access and reasonable modifications for individuals with disabilities.
- 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: Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Target entity description: The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is a UK law that established key rights and protections for disabled people by prohibiting discrimination in areas such as employment, access to goods and services, and education.
-
A.
Americans with Disabilities Act
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a landmark U.S. civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in areas such as employment, public services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications.
-
B.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a landmark U.S. civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance and in federal employment.
-
C.
Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992
The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992 were U.S. federal legislative updates that strengthened civil rights protections and expanded vocational rehabilitation and independent living services for people with disabilities.
-
D.
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the section of U.S. federal law that prohibits disability-based discrimination by state and local governments and requires their programs, services, and activities to be accessible to people with disabilities.
-
E.
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the section of U.S. federal law that prohibits disability-based discrimination by private businesses and other places of public accommodation, requiring them to provide equal access and reasonable modifications for individuals with disabilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
education providers
ⓘ
employers ⓘ landlords ⓘ providers of goods and facilities ⓘ service providers ⓘ transport providers ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBody |
Disability Rights Commission
ⓘ
linked to:
Equality and Human Rights Commission
|
| definesConcept |
disability
ⓘ
disabled person ⓘ discrimination against disabled persons ⓘ less favourable treatment ⓘ reasonable adjustments ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Employment Tribunals
ⓘ
linked to:
Employment Appeal Tribunal
civil courts ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Conservative government of John Major ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
British Parliament
|
| partiallyRepealedBy | Equality Act 2010 ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
to establish rights for disabled people in access to goods, facilities and services
ⓘ
to establish rights for disabled people in education ⓘ to establish rights for disabled people in employment ⓘ to establish rights for disabled people in the provision of premises ⓘ to prohibit discrimination against disabled people ⓘ |
| prohibits |
direct discrimination against disabled people
ⓘ
disability-related discrimination ⓘ harassment of disabled people ⓘ victimisation of disabled people ⓘ |
| requires |
reasonable adjustments by employers
ⓘ
reasonable adjustments by service providers ⓘ |
| royalAssentDate | 1995-11-08 ⓘ |
| sectorCovered |
access to goods, facilities and services
ⓘ
education ⓘ employment ⓘ housing ⓘ transport ⓘ |
| shortName | DDA 1995 ⓘ |
| statusInGreatBritain | largely superseded ⓘ |
| stillInForceInPart | Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
anti-discrimination law
ⓘ
disability discrimination ⓘ equality law ⓘ |
| supersededBy | Equality Act 2010 ⓘ |
| typeOfRightProtected | civil rights of disabled people ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1995 ⓘ |
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: Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Description of subject: The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 is a UK law that established key rights and protections for disabled people by prohibiting discrimination in areas such as employment, access to goods and services, and education.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Industrial Tribunals in Northern Ireland
→
legalBasis
→
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as applied in Northern Ireland)
ⓘ
linked to: Disability Discrimination Act 1995
Equality (Disability, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 2000
→
relatedTo
→
Disability Discrimination Act 1995
ⓘ
Commissioners of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
→
legalBasis
→
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as it applies to Northern Ireland)
ⓘ
subject linked to:
Commissioners
linked to: Disability Discrimination Act 1995