Act of March 3, 1887
E448325
The Act of March 3, 1887 was a U.S. federal law that, among other monetary provisions, authorized the redemption of previously issued trade dollars at face value.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Act of March 3, 1887 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4508651 — 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: Act of March 3, 1887 Context triple: [Trade dollar, redeemableByAct, Act of March 3, 1887]
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A.
Act of March 3, 1849
The Act of March 3, 1849 was a United States federal law that, among other monetary provisions, formed part of the mid-19th-century legislative framework expanding and regulating the nation’s coinage system.
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B.
Act of June 28, 1864
The Act of June 28, 1864 was a U.S. federal law passed during the Civil War that helped dismantle the legal framework of slavery by repealing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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C.
Organic Act of 1890
The Organic Act of 1890 was a U.S. federal law that organized Oklahoma Territory and restructured governance in the adjacent Indian Territory, laying groundwork for the future state of Oklahoma.
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D.
Act of Congress of December 13, 1920
The Act of Congress of December 13, 1920 was a U.S. federal law that formally ended wartime restrictions on speech by repealing the Sedition Act provisions added to the Espionage Act during World War I.
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E.
Judiciary Act of 1891
The Judiciary Act of 1891 was a landmark U.S. federal statute that created the intermediate federal courts of appeals, significantly restructuring the federal judiciary and reducing the Supreme Court’s mandatory caseload.
- 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: Act of March 3, 1887 Target entity description: The Act of March 3, 1887 was a U.S. federal law that, among other monetary provisions, authorized the redemption of previously issued trade dollars at face value.
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A.
Act of March 3, 1849
The Act of March 3, 1849 was a United States federal law that, among other monetary provisions, formed part of the mid-19th-century legislative framework expanding and regulating the nation’s coinage system.
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B.
Act of June 28, 1864
The Act of June 28, 1864 was a U.S. federal law passed during the Civil War that helped dismantle the legal framework of slavery by repealing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
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C.
Organic Act of 1890
The Organic Act of 1890 was a U.S. federal law that organized Oklahoma Territory and restructured governance in the adjacent Indian Territory, laying groundwork for the future state of Oklahoma.
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D.
Act of Congress of December 13, 1920
The Act of Congress of December 13, 1920 was a U.S. federal law that formally ended wartime restrictions on speech by repealing the Sedition Act provisions added to the Espionage Act during World War I.
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E.
Judiciary Act of 1891
The Judiciary Act of 1891 was a landmark U.S. federal statute that created the intermediate federal courts of appeals, significantly restructuring the federal judiciary and reducing the Supreme Court’s mandatory caseload.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States federal statute ⓘ |
| appliesTo | previously issued United States trade dollars ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| authorizedAction | redemption of United States trade dollars ⓘ |
| chronology | enacted during the first administration of Grover Cleveland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currencyUnit | United States dollar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | 1887-03-03 ⓘ |
| hasEffect |
affected holders of trade dollars
ⓘ
regulated treatment of outstanding trade dollars ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
currency law
ⓘ
financial law ⓘ |
| legalForm | public law ⓘ |
| legalStatusChange | provided for redemption of trade dollars ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States Congress ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. federal monetary legislation in the 19th century ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | United States Statutes at Large NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| redemptionRate | face value ⓘ |
| signedBy | Grover Cleveland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
United States monetary policy
ⓘ
silver coinage ⓘ trade dollars ⓘ |
| temporalContext | post-Civil War U.S. monetary reforms ⓘ |
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: Act of March 3, 1887 Description of subject: The Act of March 3, 1887 was a U.S. federal law that, among other monetary provisions, authorized the redemption of previously issued trade dollars at face value.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.