Immigration Act 1988
E948710
The Immigration Act 1988 is a UK law that further restricted and clarified immigration controls, particularly tightening rules on rights to enter, remain, and access services in the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Immigration Act 1988 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11647571 — 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: Immigration Act 1988 Context triple: [Immigration Act 1971, amendedBy, Immigration Act 1988]
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A.
Immigration Act 1971
The Immigration Act 1971 is a key UK law that established the modern framework for immigration control and the rights of entry and residence for people coming to or living in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Immigration Act 2009
The Immigration Act 2009 is New Zealand’s principal immigration legislation, overhauling previous laws to modernize visa, deportation, and refugee/asylum processes and establish a unified legal framework for managing entry and stay in the country.
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C.
Immigration Act 2014
The Immigration Act 2014 is a UK law that tightened immigration controls by restricting access to services like housing, banking, and healthcare for people without lawful status and expanding powers to remove and deport migrants.
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D.
Immigration Act 2016
The Immigration Act 2016 is a UK law that overhauled immigration enforcement and labour market regulation, including expanding powers to tackle illegal working and labour exploitation.
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E.
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is a key UK statute that overhauled immigration and asylum procedures, including the regulation of immigration advice and services and the restructuring of support for asylum seekers.
- 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: Immigration Act 1988 Target entity description: The Immigration Act 1988 is a UK law that further restricted and clarified immigration controls, particularly tightening rules on rights to enter, remain, and access services in the United Kingdom.
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A.
Immigration Act 1971
The Immigration Act 1971 is a key UK law that established the modern framework for immigration control and the rights of entry and residence for people coming to or living in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Immigration Act 2009
The Immigration Act 2009 is New Zealand’s principal immigration legislation, overhauling previous laws to modernize visa, deportation, and refugee/asylum processes and establish a unified legal framework for managing entry and stay in the country.
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C.
Immigration Act 2014
The Immigration Act 2014 is a UK law that tightened immigration controls by restricting access to services like housing, banking, and healthcare for people without lawful status and expanding powers to remove and deport migrants.
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D.
Immigration Act 2016
The Immigration Act 2016 is a UK law that overhauled immigration enforcement and labour market regulation, including expanding powers to tackle illegal working and labour exploitation.
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E.
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is a key UK statute that overhauled immigration and asylum procedures, including the regulation of immigration advice and services and the restructuring of support for asylum seekers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| amends | Immigration Act 1971 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Great Britain
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| extends | Immigration Act 1971 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
immigration law
ⓘ
nationality law ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force as amended ⓘ |
| legalSystem | English law ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
Parliament of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
British Parliament
|
| parliamentNumber | 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| partOf | United Kingdom immigration legislation ⓘ |
| purpose |
to further restrict and clarify immigration controls in the United Kingdom
ⓘ
to tighten rules on access to services in the United Kingdom by persons subject to immigration control ⓘ to tighten rules on rights to enter the United Kingdom ⓘ to tighten rules on rights to remain in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| region |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
British Nationality Act 1981
ⓘ
Immigration Act 2014 ⓘ Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 ⓘ |
| royalAssent | 1988 ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Immigration Act 1988 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | immigration control ⓘ |
| typeOfRestriction |
restrictions on access to public services
ⓘ
restrictions on entry ⓘ restrictions on leave to remain ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1988 ⓘ |
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: Immigration Act 1988 Description of subject: The Immigration Act 1988 is a UK law that further restricted and clarified immigration controls, particularly tightening rules on rights to enter, remain, and access services in the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.