Labouchere Amendment
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The Labouchere Amendment was a late 19th-century British law criminalizing male homosexual acts, notorious for its broad wording and use in high-profile prosecutions such as those of Oscar Wilde.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Labouchere Amendment canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6451713 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Labouchere Amendment Context triple: [1889 Cleveland Street scandal, legalContext, Labouchere Amendment]
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Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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Nunn–Cohen Amendment
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Burke–Wadsworth Act
The Burke–Wadsworth Act was the landmark 1940 U.S. law that established the first peacetime military draft in American history, preparing the nation’s armed forces on the eve of World War II.
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D.
Hughes Amendment
The Hughes Amendment is a 1986 U.S. federal provision that effectively banned civilian ownership of newly manufactured fully automatic firearms by freezing the machine gun registry.
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Geary Act
The Geary Act was an 1892 U.S. law that extended and intensified Chinese exclusion by requiring Chinese residents to carry residency permits and imposing harsh penalties for noncompliance.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Labouchere Amendment Target entity description: The Labouchere Amendment was a late 19th-century British law criminalizing male homosexual acts, notorious for its broad wording and use in high-profile prosecutions such as those of Oscar Wilde.
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A.
Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee state law enacted in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of human evolution in public schools, becoming infamous as the focus of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
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B.
Nunn–Cohen Amendment
The Nunn–Cohen Amendment is a 1987 U.S. law that created a unified special operations command and funding authority, significantly strengthening and institutionalizing American special operations forces.
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C.
Burke–Wadsworth Act
The Burke–Wadsworth Act was the landmark 1940 U.S. law that established the first peacetime military draft in American history, preparing the nation’s armed forces on the eve of World War II.
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D.
Hughes Amendment
The Hughes Amendment is a 1986 U.S. federal provision that effectively banned civilian ownership of newly manufactured fully automatic firearms by freezing the machine gun registry.
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E.
Geary Act
The Geary Act was an 1892 U.S. law that extended and intensified Chinese exclusion by requiring Chinese residents to carry residency permits and imposing harsh penalties for noncompliance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amendment to criminal law
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provision of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
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gross indecency clause ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
England and Wales
NERFINISHED
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Ireland (under British rule) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citationStyle | 48 & 49 Vict. c. 69, s. 11 ⓘ |
| controversialFor |
persecution of homosexual men
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use of vague moral standards in criminal law ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criminalized |
gross indecency between males
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male homosexual acts ⓘ male homosexual acts in public and private ⓘ |
| dateEnacted | 1885-08-14 ⓘ |
| excludedFromScope | female homosexual acts ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalImpact | contributed to the stigmatization and criminalization of male homosexuality in Britain ⓘ |
| inForceUntil | 1967 in England and Wales for consensual acts between adults in private ⓘ |
| inspiredLaterLaw | similar gross indecency provisions in other jurisdictions of the British Empire ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Henry Labouchere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalConcept | gross indecency ⓘ |
| legalEffect | expanded criminalization beyond sodomy to broader homosexual conduct ⓘ |
| legalStatusInUK | repealed ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Parliament of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry Labouchere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | use in high-profile prosecutions of homosexual men ⓘ |
| partOf | Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| penaltyMaximum | two years imprisonment with or without hard labour ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Buggery Act 1533
NERFINISHED
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Sexual Offences Act 1956 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sexual Offences Act 1967 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| repealedBy | Sexual Offences Act 1967 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| repealYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| sectionNumber | Section 11 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
morality legislation
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sexual offences ⓘ |
| targetedGroup | men who have sex with men ⓘ |
| typeOfOffence | misdemeanour (at the time of enactment) ⓘ |
| usedInProsecutionOf |
Lord Alfred Douglas (indirectly implicated through Wilde trials)
NERFINISHED
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Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ many lesser-known homosexual men in late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ |
| wordingCharacterization |
broadly worded
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vaguely defined offence ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1885 ⓘ |
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