Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon
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De Jonge v. Oregon is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that held states cannot criminalize peaceful assembly and political association, reinforcing First Amendment protections through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7476001 — 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: Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon Context triple: [De Jonge v. Oregon, factualBackground, Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon]
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A.
Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act
The Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act was a state law that criminalized advocacy of violence or unlawful methods of political change, later deemed unconstitutional in the landmark free speech case Brandenburg v. Ohio.
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B.
Marie Gitlow
Marie Gitlow was the wife of American socialist politician and activist Benjamin Gitlow.
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C.
Chicago Eight trial
The Chicago Eight trial was a high-profile 1969–1970 U.S. federal court case in which anti–Vietnam War activists were prosecuted for conspiracy and inciting riots related to protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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D.
Debs v. United States
Debs v. United States was a 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case in which socialist leader Eugene V. Debs’s conviction for antiwar speech was upheld, reinforcing broad limits on free speech during wartime.
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E.
Gitlow v. New York
Gitlow v. New York is a 1925 U.S. Supreme Court case that marked a major step in applying First Amendment free speech protections to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
- 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: Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon Target entity description: De Jonge v. Oregon is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that held states cannot criminalize peaceful assembly and political association, reinforcing First Amendment protections through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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A.
Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act
The Ohio Criminal Syndicalism Act was a state law that criminalized advocacy of violence or unlawful methods of political change, later deemed unconstitutional in the landmark free speech case Brandenburg v. Ohio.
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B.
Marie Gitlow
Marie Gitlow was the wife of American socialist politician and activist Benjamin Gitlow.
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C.
Chicago Eight trial
The Chicago Eight trial was a high-profile 1969–1970 U.S. federal court case in which anti–Vietnam War activists were prosecuted for conspiracy and inciting riots related to protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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D.
Debs v. United States
Debs v. United States was a 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case in which socialist leader Eugene V. Debs’s conviction for antiwar speech was upheld, reinforcing broad limits on free speech during wartime.
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E.
Gitlow v. New York
Gitlow v. New York is a 1925 U.S. Supreme Court case that marked a major step in applying First Amendment free speech protections to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
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landmark First Amendment case ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityLeadingToArrest | speaking at a peaceful public meeting in Portland, Oregon ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
First Amendment law
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civil liberties ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ |
| citation | 299 U.S. 353 ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvision |
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
linked to:
Fourteenth Amendment
|
| convictedUnder | Oregon criminal syndicalism statute ⓘ |
| convictionStatusAfterAppeal | reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in De Jonge v. Oregon ⓘ |
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1937-01-04 ⓘ |
| doctrine | First Amendment freedoms are fundamental and safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment from state infringement ⓘ |
| factPattern | Dirk De Jonge was arrested and convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon ⓘ |
| fullName |
Dirk De Jonge v. State of Oregon
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linked to:
De Jonge v. Oregon
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| historicalContext | Red Scare–era criminal syndicalism prosecutions ⓘ |
| holding |
Participation in a peaceful public meeting called by the Communist Party cannot be punished under a criminal syndicalism statute solely because of the party’s advocacy
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States cannot criminalize peaceful assembly for lawful discussion, even if held under the auspices of a political party such as the Communist Party ⓘ The right of peaceable assembly is a fundamental right protected against state infringement by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| legalIssue |
freedom of assembly
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freedom of speech ⓘ incorporation of the First Amendment ⓘ |
| locationOfEvents |
Portland, Oregon
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linked to:
Portland
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| meetingOrganizer | Communist Party ⓘ |
| opinionBy | Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes ⓘ |
| overturnedLaw | application of Oregon’s criminal syndicalism statute to peaceful assembly ⓘ |
| petitioner | Dirk De Jonge ⓘ |
| precedentFor |
incorporation of freedom of assembly against the states
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limits on state criminal syndicalism laws ⓘ protection of peaceful political meetings from state suppression ⓘ |
| relatedCase |
Gitlow v. New York
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Hague v. CIO ⓘ Stromberg v. California ⓘ Whitney v. California ⓘ |
| relatedRight |
freedom of expression
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right to peaceable assembly ⓘ right to political association ⓘ |
| respondent |
State of Oregon
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linked to:
Oregon
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| resultForPetitioner | conviction reversed ⓘ |
| roleInCase | petitioner in De Jonge v. Oregon ⓘ |
| stateInvolved | Oregon ⓘ |
| vote | unanimous decision ⓘ |
| yearDecided | 1937 ⓘ |
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: Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon Description of subject: De Jonge v. Oregon is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that held states cannot criminalize peaceful assembly and political association, reinforcing First Amendment protections through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
De Jonge v. Oregon
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factualBackground
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Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon
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De Jonge v. Oregon
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factPattern
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Dirk De Jonge was arrested and convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon
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subject linked to:
Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon
linked to: Dirk De Jonge was convicted for speaking at a peaceful public meeting held under the auspices of the Communist Party in Portland, Oregon