99-272
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99-272 is the public law number for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), a major U.S. federal law known for its provisions allowing continued health insurance coverage after job loss or other qualifying events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 99-272 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10002623 — 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: 99-272 Context triple: [Public Law 99-272, publicLawNumber, 99-272]
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A.
107-296
107-296 is the public law number for the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the U.S. federal law that created the Department of Homeland Security in response to the September 11 attacks.
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B.
91-902
91-902 is the U.S. Supreme Court docket number for Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the landmark 1992 abortion rights case that reaffirmed and modified Roe v. Wade.
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C.
110-289
110-289 is the public law number for the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a major U.S. federal law addressing the subprime mortgage crisis and reforming housing finance regulation.
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D.
116-92
116-92 is the public law number for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, a major U.S. federal law that sets annual defense policies and funding levels.
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E.
N272
N272 is a regional road in the Netherlands that serves as a key connection route in the province of North Brabant, including access to the village of Sint Anthonis.
- 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: 99-272 Target entity description: 99-272 is the public law number for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), a major U.S. federal law known for its provisions allowing continued health insurance coverage after job loss or other qualifying events.
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A.
107-296
107-296 is the public law number for the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the U.S. federal law that created the Department of Homeland Security in response to the September 11 attacks.
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B.
91-902
91-902 is the U.S. Supreme Court docket number for Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the landmark 1992 abortion rights case that reaffirmed and modified Roe v. Wade.
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C.
110-289
110-289 is the public law number for the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a major U.S. federal law addressing the subprime mortgage crisis and reforming housing finance regulation.
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D.
116-92
116-92 is the public law number for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, a major U.S. federal law that sets annual defense policies and funding levels.
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E.
N272
N272 is a regional road in the Netherlands that serves as a key connection route in the province of North Brabant, including access to the village of Sint Anthonis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States public law
ⓘ
federal statute ⓘ |
| allows | qualified beneficiaries to pay full premium plus administrative fee ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
COBRA health insurance law
ⓘ
linked to:
COBRA
|
| amends |
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
ⓘ
Internal Revenue Code of 1954 ⓘ
linked to:
Internal Revenue Code
Public Health Service Act ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
federal government of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
private-sector employers with group health plans ⓘ state and local government employers with group health plans ⓘ |
| codifiedIn |
Title 26 of the United States Code
ⓘ
Title 29 of the United States Code ⓘ Title 42 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| defines | qualified beneficiary for continuation coverage purposes ⓘ |
| enactedBy | 99th United States Congress ⓘ |
| enactmentDate | 1986-04-07 ⓘ |
| excludes |
certain church plans
ⓘ
plans sponsored by the federal government ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | COBRA ⓘ |
| hasProvision |
Medicaid program changes
ⓘ
Medicare hospital insurance financing changes ⓘ Social Security program changes ⓘ budget reconciliation measures ⓘ health insurance continuation coverage requirements ⓘ revenue and tax provisions ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| legislativeType |
omnibus budget reconciliation act
ⓘ
linked to:
budget reconciliation act
|
| maximumContinuationPeriod |
18 months for most job loss or reduction in hours events
ⓘ
36 months for certain other qualifying events ⓘ |
| partOf | federal budget reconciliation process of the mid-1980s ⓘ |
| presidentAtSigning | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| provides |
continuation coverage after death of covered employee
ⓘ
continuation coverage after divorce or legal separation ⓘ continuation coverage after job loss ⓘ continuation coverage after reduction in hours ⓘ continuation coverage for dependent children aging out of coverage ⓘ temporary continuation of group health coverage ⓘ |
| publicLawNumber | Pub.L. 99-272 ⓘ |
| regulates |
employers with 20 or more employees offering group health plans
ⓘ
group health plans ⓘ |
| requires | employers to offer continuation coverage to qualified beneficiaries ⓘ |
| shortName | COBRA ⓘ |
| signedBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Medicaid
ⓘ
Medicare ⓘ Social Security ⓘ budget reconciliation ⓘ employee benefits ⓘ federal budget ⓘ health insurance continuation ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1986 ⓘ |
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: 99-272 Description of subject: 99-272 is the public law number for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), a major U.S. federal law known for its provisions allowing continued health insurance coverage after job loss or other qualifying events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.