State Pension
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The State Pension is a regular payment from the government that people in the UK can receive once they reach State Pension age, based on their National Insurance contribution record.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| State Pension canonical | 3 |
| Category A pension | 1 |
| UK State Pension | 1 |
| UK State Pension system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11864532 — 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: State Pension Context triple: [Attendance Allowance, canBePaidWith, State Pension]
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A.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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B.
Basic State Pension
The Basic State Pension was the UK’s former flat-rate, contribution-based state retirement benefit for people reaching State Pension age before April 2016.
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C.
Social Security retirement benefits
Social Security retirement benefits are monthly payments from the U.S. Social Security program that provide income to eligible workers and their dependents after the worker retires, based on their prior earnings and work history.
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D.
Additional State Pension
Additional State Pension was a UK earnings-related top-up to the basic State Pension that provided extra retirement income based on an individual’s National Insurance contributions, before being phased out and superseded by the new State Pension system.
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E.
State Second Pension
The State Second Pension was a UK government earnings-related additional pension scheme that supplemented the basic State Pension before being replaced by the new State Pension system.
- 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: State Pension Target entity description: The State Pension is a regular payment from the government that people in the UK can receive once they reach State Pension age, based on their National Insurance contribution record.
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A.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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B.
Basic State Pension
The Basic State Pension was the UK’s former flat-rate, contribution-based state retirement benefit for people reaching State Pension age before April 2016.
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C.
Social Security retirement benefits
Social Security retirement benefits are monthly payments from the U.S. Social Security program that provide income to eligible workers and their dependents after the worker retires, based on their prior earnings and work history.
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D.
Additional State Pension
Additional State Pension was a UK earnings-related top-up to the basic State Pension that provided extra retirement income based on an individual’s National Insurance contributions, before being phased out and superseded by the new State Pension system.
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E.
State Second Pension
The State Second Pension was a UK government earnings-related additional pension scheme that supplemented the basic State Pension before being replaced by the new State Pension system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public pension
ⓘ
retirement income ⓘ social security benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| administeredThrough | HM Revenue and Customs National Insurance records ⓘ |
| ageThreshold | State Pension age ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
people who have reached State Pension age
ⓘ
people with sufficient National Insurance record ⓘ |
| canBeClaimedFromAbroad | true ⓘ |
| canBeIncreasedBy | deferring claim ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dependsOn | number of qualifying years of National Insurance ⓘ |
| eligibilityBasis |
National Insurance contributions
ⓘ
National Insurance credits ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
National Insurance system
ⓘ
linked to:
National Insurance Acts
|
| governedBy |
Pensions Act 1995
ⓘ
Pensions Act 2007 ⓘ Pensions Act 2011 ⓘ Pensions Act 2014 ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Basic State Pension
ⓘ
New State Pension ⓘ |
| introducedComponent | New State Pension from 6 April 2016 ⓘ |
| isIndexedBy | State Pension triple lock policy (subject to government decisions) ⓘ |
| isSeparateFrom |
personal pensions
ⓘ
workplace pensions ⓘ |
| isTaxable | true ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom social security law ⓘ |
| languageOfOfficialInformation |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| mayNotIncreaseWithInflationIn | some countries outside the UK and certain agreements ⓘ |
| mayProvide | survivor benefits in some circumstances ⓘ |
| notMeansTested | true ⓘ |
| payableIn |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| paymentFrequency |
regular
ⓘ
usually every 4 weeks ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | bank account payment ⓘ |
| paysUntil | death of claimant ⓘ |
| purpose | provide basic income in retirement ⓘ |
| replacedComponentForNewClaimants | Basic State Pension for people reaching State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016 ⓘ |
| requires | reaching State Pension age ⓘ |
| requiresAction | claim by the individual in most cases ⓘ |
| shortName |
UK State Pension
ⓘ
linked to:
State Pension
|
| statePensionAge |
has been rising over time
ⓘ
varies by date of birth ⓘ |
| typeOfBenefit | contributory benefit ⓘ |
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: State Pension Description of subject: The State Pension is a regular payment from the government that people in the UK can receive once they reach State Pension age, based on their National Insurance contribution record.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: State Pension
linked to: State Pension