Rule 415
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Rule 415 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that governs the admissibility of evidence of similar acts in civil cases involving sexual assault or child molestation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rule 415 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3392727 — 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: Rule 415 Context triple: [Article IV – Relevance and Its Limits, contains, Rule 415]
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A.
Rule 44
Rule 44 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the right to and appointment of counsel for defendants in federal criminal cases, including issues of joint representation and potential conflicts of interest.
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B.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
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C.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the issuance and execution of search and seizure warrants in federal criminal investigations.
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D.
Rule 1.140
Rule 1.140 is a provision of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure that governs defenses, objections, and motions in response to civil pleadings, including how and when they must be raised.
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E.
Rule 15
Rule 15 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs when and how parties may amend their pleadings in civil lawsuits.
- 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: Rule 415 Target entity description: Rule 415 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that governs the admissibility of evidence of similar acts in civil cases involving sexual assault or child molestation.
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A.
Rule 44
Rule 44 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the right to and appointment of counsel for defendants in federal criminal cases, including issues of joint representation and potential conflicts of interest.
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B.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
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C.
Rule 41
Rule 41 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the issuance and execution of search and seizure warrants in federal criminal investigations.
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D.
Rule 1.140
Rule 1.140 is a provision of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure that governs defenses, objections, and motions in response to civil pleadings, including how and when they must be raised.
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E.
Rule 15
Rule 15 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs when and how parties may amend their pleadings in civil lawsuits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
provision of the Federal Rules of Evidence
ⓘ
rule of evidence ⓘ |
| allows |
admission of evidence that a party committed any other child molestation
ⓘ
admission of evidence that a party committed any other sexual assault ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
civil cases involving child molestation
ⓘ
civil cases involving sexual assault ⓘ |
| citationForm | Fed. R. Evid. 415 ⓘ |
| codifiedIn |
Title 28 of the United States Code Appendix
ⓘ
linked to:
Title 28 of the United States Code
|
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| evidenceType | character and propensity evidence ⓘ |
| exceptionTo | general prohibition on propensity evidence under Rule 404(a) ⓘ |
| governs | admissibility of evidence of similar acts in civil cases ⓘ |
| implementedBy | federal district courts ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal courts
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
|
| legalEffect | permits propensity evidence in specified civil cases ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law–based U.S. federal legal system ⓘ |
| partOf |
Federal Rules of Evidence
ⓘ
linked to:
rules of evidence for the federal courts
|
| purpose | to allow juries to consider patterns of sexual misconduct in civil cases ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Rule 413
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Rule 414 ⓘ |
| requires | advance notice to the opposing party of intent to use such evidence ⓘ |
| scope |
applies when a party is accused of child molestation in a civil case
ⓘ
applies when a party is accused of sexual assault in a civil case ⓘ |
| standard | evidence is subject to Rule 403 balancing ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
similar acts of child molestation
ⓘ
similar acts of sexual assault ⓘ |
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: Rule 415 Description of subject: Rule 415 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that governs the admissibility of evidence of similar acts in civil cases involving sexual assault or child molestation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.