Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and restricts courts from overturning a jury's factual findings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution canonical | 5 |
| Seventh Amendment | 1 |
| Seventh Amendment jury trial clause | 1 |
| U.S. Const. amend. VII | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T507784 — 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: Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Context triple: [Bill of Rights, containsAmendment, Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution]
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A.
Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is a 1795 amendment that limits the ability of individuals to bring suits against states in federal court, reinforcing the principle of state sovereign immunity.
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B.
Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a key provision in the Bill of Rights that protects individuals from excessive bail and fines, as well as from cruel and unusual punishments, and serves as a central basis for challenges to the death penalty and prison conditions.
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C.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a key component of the Bill of Rights that protects individuals against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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D.
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants rights such as a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, notice of accusations, confrontation of witnesses, compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, and the assistance of counsel.
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E.
Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a provision in the Bill of Rights that affirms the existence of fundamental rights retained by the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
- 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: Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Target entity description: The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and restricts courts from overturning a jury's factual findings.
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A.
Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is a 1795 amendment that limits the ability of individuals to bring suits against states in federal court, reinforcing the principle of state sovereign immunity.
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B.
Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a key provision in the Bill of Rights that protects individuals from excessive bail and fines, as well as from cruel and unusual punishments, and serves as a central basis for challenges to the death penalty and prison conditions.
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C.
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a key component of the Bill of Rights that protects individuals against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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D.
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants rights such as a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, notice of accusations, confrontation of witnesses, compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, and the assistance of counsel.
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E.
Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution is a provision in the Bill of Rights that affirms the existence of fundamental rights retained by the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
amendment to the United States Constitution
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constitutional amendment ⓘ |
| adoptedOn | 1791-12-15 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
civil cases in federal courts
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suits at common law ⓘ |
| basedOn | English common law tradition ⓘ |
| bindingOn | federal courts ⓘ |
| category |
United States civil rights law
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United States constitutional law ⓘ |
| citation |
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
U.S. Const. amend. VII
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| containsPhrase |
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
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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 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| doesNotApplyTo |
criminal prosecutions
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most equitable proceedings ⓘ |
| draftedBy | James Madison ⓘ |
| firstClauseKnownAs | jury trial clause ⓘ |
| follows |
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
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surface form:
Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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| guaranteesRight | right to trial by jury in certain civil cases ⓘ |
| hasNumber | 7 ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Anti-Federalist concerns about federal judicial power ⓘ |
| includedIn | original ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights ⓘ |
| inForce | true ⓘ |
| initiallyNotIncorporatedAgainst | U.S. states ⓘ |
| interpretedBy | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
civil procedure
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jury trial ⓘ |
| limits | reexamination of facts tried by a jury ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bill of Rights
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surface form:
United States Bill of Rights
United States Constitution ⓘ |
| precedes | Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| proposedBy | First United States Congress ⓘ |
| proposedOn | 1789-09-25 ⓘ |
| protects | civil litigants ⓘ |
| protectsFrom | judicial encroachment on jury fact-finding ⓘ |
| protectsRightOf |
civil defendants
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civil plaintiffs ⓘ |
| purpose |
to limit appellate and trial judges from reweighing jury-found facts
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to preserve the common-law right to civil jury trial ⓘ |
| ratifiedOn | 1791-12-15 ⓘ |
| relatedDoctrine |
directed verdict
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judgment as a matter of law ⓘ summary judgment ⓘ |
| restricts | federal courts from overturning a jury's factual findings except as allowed by common law ⓘ |
| secondClauseKnownAs | reexamination clause ⓘ |
| setsMonetaryThreshold | twenty dollars ⓘ |
| textualStructure | two clauses ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution Description of subject: The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and restricts courts from overturning a jury's factual findings.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
First United States Congress
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proposedAmendment
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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United States constitutional amendments
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includes
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
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ratifiedWith
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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subject surface form:
Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
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citation
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
U.S. Const. amend. VII
this entity surface form:
Seventh Amendment jury trial clause
this entity surface form:
Seventh Amendment