Rule 902
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Rule 902 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that lists categories of documents and records that are considered self-authenticating and therefore require no extrinsic evidence of authenticity to be admitted in court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rule 902 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3392938 — 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 902 Context triple: [Article IX – Authentication and Identification, hasSection, Rule 902]
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A.
Rule 82
Rule 82 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that clarifies the rules do not extend or limit the jurisdiction of federal courts or venue requirements.
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B.
Rule 37
Rule 37 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs sanctions and remedies for failures to make disclosures or cooperate in discovery during civil litigation.
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C.
Rule 8
Rule 8 is a key provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that sets out the basic requirements for the content and form of pleadings, including the standard for stating a claim for relief.
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D.
Rule 21
Rule 21 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the transfer of criminal proceedings from one district court to another to ensure fairness or convenience.
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E.
Rule 23
Rule 23 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs how and when a criminal defendant’s case is tried by a jury or by a judge alone.
- 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 902 Target entity description: Rule 902 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that lists categories of documents and records that are considered self-authenticating and therefore require no extrinsic evidence of authenticity to be admitted in court.
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A.
Rule 82
Rule 82 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that clarifies the rules do not extend or limit the jurisdiction of federal courts or venue requirements.
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B.
Rule 37
Rule 37 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs sanctions and remedies for failures to make disclosures or cooperate in discovery during civil litigation.
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C.
Rule 8
Rule 8 is a key provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that sets out the basic requirements for the content and form of pleadings, including the standard for stating a claim for relief.
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D.
Rule 21
Rule 21 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs the transfer of criminal proceedings from one district court to another to ensure fairness or convenience.
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E.
Rule 23
Rule 23 is a provision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that governs how and when a criminal defendant’s case is tried by a jury or by a judge alone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
provision of the Federal Rules of Evidence
ⓘ
rule of evidence ⓘ |
| appliesIn |
civil proceedings
ⓘ
criminal proceedings ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
certain electronic evidence
ⓘ
documents ⓘ records ⓘ |
| authority | promulgated by the United States Supreme Court under the Rules Enabling Act ⓘ |
| bindingOn |
United States courts of appeals
ⓘ
United States district courts ⓘ |
| citationForm | Fed. R. Evid. 902 ⓘ |
| codifiesConcept | self-authentication ⓘ |
| distinguishes | self-authenticating evidence from evidence requiring foundational testimony ⓘ |
| effect | eliminates need for extrinsic evidence of authenticity for listed items ⓘ |
| goal |
promote judicial efficiency
ⓘ
reduce evidentiary disputes over authenticity ⓘ |
| interpretationGuidedBy | federal case law ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal courts
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
|
| languageType | procedural rule ⓘ |
| legalDomain | evidence law ⓘ |
| listsCategory |
acknowledged documents
ⓘ
certified copies of public records ⓘ certified data copied from an electronic device, storage medium, or file ⓘ certified domestic records of a regularly conducted activity ⓘ certified foreign records of a regularly conducted activity ⓘ certified records generated by an electronic process or system ⓘ commercial paper and related documents ⓘ domestic public documents not under seal but certified ⓘ domestic public documents under seal ⓘ foreign public documents ⓘ newspapers and periodicals ⓘ official publications ⓘ presumptions under federal statute ⓘ trade inscriptions and the like ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Article IX of the Federal Rules of Evidence ⓘ |
| partOf |
Federal Rules of Evidence
ⓘ
linked to:
rules of evidence for the federal courts
|
| primaryFunction | define self-authenticating evidence ⓘ |
| purpose | streamline admission of commonly reliable evidence ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
authentication of evidence
ⓘ
extrinsic evidence of authenticity ⓘ |
| relatedRule | Rule 901 ⓘ |
| requires | compliance with specified certification procedures ⓘ |
| requiresNoticeFor | certain certified records and electronic evidence categories ⓘ |
| sectionNumber | 902 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
civil litigants
ⓘ
defense attorneys ⓘ federal prosecutors ⓘ |
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 902 Description of subject: Rule 902 is a provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence that lists categories of documents and records that are considered self-authenticating and therefore require no extrinsic evidence of authenticity to be admitted in court.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.