Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
E165719
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is a U.S. federal law that provides legal and financial protections to active-duty military personnel, particularly in areas such as housing, loans, and civil judicial proceedings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Servicemembers Civil Relief Act canonical | 1 |
| Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1445881 — 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: Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Context triple: [Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, enforces, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act]
-
A.
Defense Base Act
The Defense Base Act is a U.S. federal workers’ compensation law that extends Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act protections to civilian employees working on U.S. military bases or under U.S. government contracts outside the United States.
-
B.
Veterans’ Judicial Review Act
The Veterans’ Judicial Review Act is a landmark 1988 U.S. law that first granted veterans the right to judicial review of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits decisions by creating an independent federal court system for their appeals.
-
C.
Military Justice Act of 1968
The Military Justice Act of 1968 is a U.S. federal law that significantly reformed the military justice system by enhancing procedural safeguards and aligning court-martial practices more closely with civilian criminal courts.
-
D.
Military Justice Act of 1983
The Military Justice Act of 1983 is a U.S. federal law that significantly reformed the military justice system, enhancing procedural safeguards and aligning court-martial practices more closely with civilian criminal courts.
-
E.
Burns-Porter Act
The Burns-Porter Act is a 1960 California bond measure and enabling law that financed and established the framework for the statewide State Water Project, one of the largest public water and power systems in the United States.
- 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: Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Target entity description: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is a U.S. federal law that provides legal and financial protections to active-duty military personnel, particularly in areas such as housing, loans, and civil judicial proceedings.
-
A.
Defense Base Act
The Defense Base Act is a U.S. federal workers’ compensation law that extends Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act protections to civilian employees working on U.S. military bases or under U.S. government contracts outside the United States.
-
B.
Veterans’ Judicial Review Act
The Veterans’ Judicial Review Act is a landmark 1988 U.S. law that first granted veterans the right to judicial review of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits decisions by creating an independent federal court system for their appeals.
-
C.
Military Justice Act of 1968
The Military Justice Act of 1968 is a U.S. federal law that significantly reformed the military justice system by enhancing procedural safeguards and aligning court-martial practices more closely with civilian criminal courts.
-
D.
Military Justice Act of 1983
The Military Justice Act of 1983 is a U.S. federal law that significantly reformed the military justice system, enhancing procedural safeguards and aligning court-martial practices more closely with civilian criminal courts.
-
E.
Burns-Porter Act
The Burns-Porter Act is a 1960 California bond measure and enabling law that financed and established the framework for the statewide State Water Project, one of the largest public water and power systems in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal statute
ⓘ
military law ⓘ |
| administeredBy | United States Department of Justice for enforcement ⓘ |
| allows | private right of action by aggrieved servicemembers ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act modernization ⓘ |
| amendedBy | various subsequent acts of Congress expanding protections ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
activated National Guard members under federal orders of more than 30 days
ⓘ
active-duty servicemembers ⓘ commissioned officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on active service ⓘ commissioned officers of the Public Health Service on active service ⓘ members of the Air Force ⓘ members of the Army ⓘ members of the Coast Guard when on active duty under Title 10 orders ⓘ members of the Marine Corps ⓘ members of the Navy ⓘ |
| codifiedIn | Title 50 of the United States Code ⓘ |
| codifiedSections | 50 U.S.C. §§ 3901–4043 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateEnacted | 2003-12-19 ⓘ |
| effectiveDate | 2003-12-19 ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
Civil Rights Division
ⓘ
surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
state attorneys general in some cases ⓘ |
| keyProvision |
interest rate cap on certain pre-service debts at 6 percent per year during military service
ⓘ
protections against certain adverse actions by creditors based solely on assertion of SCRA rights ⓘ protections against eviction from primary residence under certain rent thresholds ⓘ protections against nonjudicial foreclosures on mortgages incurred before military service ⓘ protections regarding repossession of property purchased or leased under installment contracts ⓘ protections related to enforcement of storage liens ⓘ right to terminate automobile leases upon entering qualifying military service or deployment under certain conditions ⓘ right to terminate residential leases upon entering qualifying military service or receiving certain orders ⓘ stay of civil court and administrative proceedings when military service materially affects ability to appear ⓘ tolling of statutes of limitations during military service in some circumstances ⓘ |
| legalArea |
civil procedure
ⓘ
consumer protection law ⓘ credit and lending law ⓘ housing law ⓘ |
| providesProtectionIn |
automobile leases
ⓘ
civil judicial proceedings ⓘ credit card obligations ⓘ default judgments ⓘ evictions ⓘ foreclosures ⓘ installment contracts ⓘ mortgages ⓘ residential leases ⓘ taxes ⓘ |
| publicLawNumber | Public Law 108-189 ⓘ |
| purpose | to enable servicemembers to devote full attention to duty by providing temporary suspension of certain civil obligations ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Military Lending Act ⓘ |
| replaced |
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940
|
| shortName | SCRA ⓘ |
| signedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
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: Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Description of subject: The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is a U.S. federal law that provides legal and financial protections to active-duty military personnel, particularly in areas such as housing, loans, and civil judicial proceedings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
→
replaced
→
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940