reexamination clause
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The reexamination clause is the part of the Seventh Amendment that restricts federal courts from overturning a jury’s factual findings in civil cases except under rules recognized at common law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| reexamination clause canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2861614 — 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: reexamination clause Context triple: [Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, secondClauseKnownAs, reexamination clause]
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A.
Chapter 25 – Amendment and correction of patents
Chapter 25 – Amendment and correction of patents is a section of U.S. patent law that sets out the legal procedures and requirements for modifying, correcting, and reissuing granted patents.
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B.
Presentment Clause
The Presentment Clause is a provision of the U.S. Constitution that outlines the process by which Congress passes legislation and presents it to the President for approval or veto.
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C.
Patent Clause of the United States Constitution
The Patent Clause of the United States Constitution is the provision that empowers Congress to grant inventors exclusive rights to their discoveries for limited times in order to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
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D.
Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act
The Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, commonly known as the Bayh–Dole Act, is a U.S. federal law that allows universities, small businesses, and non-profits to retain ownership of inventions developed with federal funding, thereby promoting commercialization of research.
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E.
Hague Revision Act
The Hague Revision Act is an international agreement that updated and amended the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property to modernize and harmonize global rules on industrial property rights.
- 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: reexamination clause Target entity description: The reexamination clause is the part of the Seventh Amendment that restricts federal courts from overturning a jury’s factual findings in civil cases except under rules recognized at common law.
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A.
Chapter 25 – Amendment and correction of patents
Chapter 25 – Amendment and correction of patents is a section of U.S. patent law that sets out the legal procedures and requirements for modifying, correcting, and reissuing granted patents.
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B.
Presentment Clause
The Presentment Clause is a provision of the U.S. Constitution that outlines the process by which Congress passes legislation and presents it to the President for approval or veto.
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C.
Patent Clause of the United States Constitution
The Patent Clause of the United States Constitution is the provision that empowers Congress to grant inventors exclusive rights to their discoveries for limited times in order to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
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D.
Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act
The Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, commonly known as the Bayh–Dole Act, is a U.S. federal law that allows universities, small businesses, and non-profits to retain ownership of inventions developed with federal funding, thereby promoting commercialization of research.
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E.
Hague Revision Act
The Hague Revision Act is an international agreement that updated and amended the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property to modernize and harmonize global rules on industrial property rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
clause of the United States Constitution
ⓘ
constitutional provision ⓘ |
| allows | reexamination of jury facts according to rules of the common law ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
civil cases
ⓘ
federal courts ⓘ |
| basedOn | English common law traditions ⓘ |
| concerns | standard of review for jury fact-finding ⓘ |
| constitutionalLevel | federal ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateRatified | 1791 ⓘ |
| distinguishes | questions of fact from questions of law ⓘ |
| foundIn |
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
surface form:
Seventh Amendment
|
| governs | reexamination of facts found by a jury ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasText | "no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law" ⓘ |
| historicalContext | adopted to address Anti-Federalist concerns about civil juries ⓘ |
| influences | appellate review of jury verdicts in federal civil cases ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
federal judiciary of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
federal courts of the United States
|
| legalSystem | United States law ⓘ |
| limits | judicial power to reweigh evidence found by a jury ⓘ |
| partOf |
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
Bill of Rights ⓘ
surface form:
United States Bill of Rights
|
| permits |
judgment as a matter of law under common-law standards
ⓘ
new trial under common-law standards ⓘ |
| protects |
finality of jury fact-finding
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role of the civil jury ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
surface form:
Seventh Amendment jury trial clause
jury trial in civil cases ⓘ |
| restricts | federal courts overturning jury factual findings ⓘ |
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: reexamination clause Description of subject: The reexamination clause is the part of the Seventh Amendment that restricts federal courts from overturning a jury’s factual findings in civil cases except under rules recognized at common law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.