plain feel doctrine
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The plain feel doctrine is a legal principle allowing police officers during a lawful pat-down to seize contraband detected by touch when its illicit nature is immediately apparent without further manipulation.
All labels observed (1)
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| plain feel doctrine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21190020 — 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: plain feel doctrine Context triple: [Minnesota v. Dickerson, doctrineRecognized, plain feel doctrine]
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A.
Sanctuary doctrine
The Sanctuary doctrine is a distinctive Seventh-day Adventist teaching that interprets Christ’s ongoing heavenly ministry and the investigative judgment through the symbolism of the Old Testament sanctuary services.
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B.
Noerr-Pennington doctrine
The Noerr-Pennington doctrine is a U.S. legal principle that shields individuals and entities from antitrust liability when they petition the government, even if their efforts have anticompetitive effects.
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C.
Bivens doctrine
The Bivens doctrine is a judicially created legal principle that allows individuals to seek damages in federal court against U.S. federal officials for certain constitutional rights violations, despite the general barrier of sovereign immunity.
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D.
rule of reason
The rule of reason is an antitrust legal doctrine that evaluates whether a business practice unreasonably restrains trade by weighing its pro-competitive benefits against its anti-competitive harms.
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E.
flexible response doctrine
The flexible response doctrine was a Cold War U.S. military strategy that emphasized a wide range of graduated, conventional and nuclear options to deter or respond to aggression, rather than relying primarily on massive nuclear retaliation.
- 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: plain feel doctrine Target entity description: The plain feel doctrine is a legal principle allowing police officers during a lawful pat-down to seize contraband detected by touch when its illicit nature is immediately apparent without further manipulation.
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A.
Sanctuary doctrine
The Sanctuary doctrine is a distinctive Seventh-day Adventist teaching that interprets Christ’s ongoing heavenly ministry and the investigative judgment through the symbolism of the Old Testament sanctuary services.
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B.
Noerr-Pennington doctrine
The Noerr-Pennington doctrine is a U.S. legal principle that shields individuals and entities from antitrust liability when they petition the government, even if their efforts have anticompetitive effects.
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C.
Bivens doctrine
The Bivens doctrine is a judicially created legal principle that allows individuals to seek damages in federal court against U.S. federal officials for certain constitutional rights violations, despite the general barrier of sovereign immunity.
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D.
rule of reason
The rule of reason is an antitrust legal doctrine that evaluates whether a business practice unreasonably restrains trade by weighing its pro-competitive benefits against its anti-competitive harms.
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E.
flexible response doctrine
The flexible response doctrine was a Cold War U.S. military strategy that emphasized a wide range of graduated, conventional and nuclear options to deter or respond to aggression, rather than relying primarily on massive nuclear retaliation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.