Rule 41
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Rule 41 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the issuance and execution of search and seizure warrants in federal criminal investigations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fed. R. Crim. P. 41 | 1 |
| Rule 41 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1228787 — 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: Rule 41 Context triple: [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, contains, Rule 41]
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A.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
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B.
Rule 37
Rule 37 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs sanctions and remedies for failures to make disclosures or cooperate in discovery during civil litigation.
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C.
Rule 65
Rule 65 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the issuance and terms of temporary restraining orders and preliminary and permanent injunctions in federal civil cases.
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D.
Rule 56
Rule 56 is the provision in the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs summary judgment, allowing courts to decide cases without trial when there is no genuine dispute of material fact.
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E.
Rule 11
Rule 11 is a key provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the signing of pleadings and motions, requiring attorneys and parties to certify that their filings are legally and factually grounded and not submitted for improper purposes, with sanctions available for violations.
- 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: Rule 41 Target entity description: Rule 41 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the issuance and execution of search and seizure warrants in federal criminal investigations.
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A.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
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B.
Rule 37
Rule 37 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs sanctions and remedies for failures to make disclosures or cooperate in discovery during civil litigation.
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C.
Rule 65
Rule 65 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the issuance and terms of temporary restraining orders and preliminary and permanent injunctions in federal civil cases.
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D.
Rule 56
Rule 56 is the provision in the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs summary judgment, allowing courts to decide cases without trial when there is no genuine dispute of material fact.
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E.
Rule 11
Rule 11 is a key provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the signing of pleadings and motions, requiring attorneys and parties to certify that their filings are legally and factually grounded and not submitted for improper purposes, with sanctions available for violations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ |
| amendedBy | various amendments of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
federal criminal investigations
ⓘ
federal district judges ⓘ federal magistrate judges ⓘ |
| authority |
Supreme Court of the United States (rulemaking under the Rules Enabling Act)
ⓘ
surface form:
Supreme Court of the United States (rulemaking authority)
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| basedOn |
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
surface form:
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution (search and seizure principles)
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| bindingOn | federal law enforcement officers ⓘ |
| citationForm |
Rule 41
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Fed. R. Crim. P. 41
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| codifiedIn | Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| enforcedBy | federal courts ⓘ |
| governs |
search warrants
ⓘ
seizure warrants ⓘ |
| includes |
procedures for delayed notice of warrants in some circumstances
ⓘ
procedures for executing warrants outside the district in specified cases ⓘ procedures for installing and monitoring tracking devices ⓘ procedures for issuing a warrant on affidavit or recorded testimony ⓘ procedures for remote access to electronic storage media ⓘ provisions for nighttime execution in certain circumstances ⓘ requirements for describing the persons or things to be seized ⓘ requirements for describing the place to be searched ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
U.S. federal courts
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal courts
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalDomain | criminal procedure ⓘ |
| legalStatus | binding procedural rule in federal criminal proceedings ⓘ |
| legalSystem | United States law ⓘ |
| notableAmendment | 2016 amendment expanding authority for remote access searches of electronic storage media ⓘ |
| partOf | Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ |
| providesFor | motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the rule (through general suppression doctrine) ⓘ |
| purpose |
to protect Fourth Amendment rights in federal criminal cases
ⓘ
to standardize federal search and seizure warrant procedures ⓘ |
| regulates |
contents of search warrants
ⓘ
execution of search warrants ⓘ issuance of search warrants ⓘ remote access search warrants ⓘ return of warrant and inventory ⓘ territorial limits of warrant authority ⓘ time of execution of warrants ⓘ tracking-device warrants ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Fourth Amendment jurisprudence
ⓘ
federal law enforcement procedures ⓘ |
| requires |
officer executing the warrant to file a return with the issuing court
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officer executing the warrant to provide a copy of the warrant and a receipt for property taken ⓘ probable cause for issuance of a warrant ⓘ |
| scope | federal criminal cases ⓘ |
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: Rule 41 Description of subject: Rule 41 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the issuance and execution of search and seizure warrants in federal criminal investigations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fed. R. Crim. P. 41