Johnson v. Eisentrager
E730076
Johnson v. Eisentrager is a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held nonresident enemy aliens detained outside U.S. sovereign territory had no constitutional right to seek habeas corpus in American courts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnson v. Eisentrager canonical | 2 |
| Johnson, Secretary of Defense v. Eisentrager et al. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8387209 — 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: Johnson v. Eisentrager Context triple: [Boumediene v. Bush, precedentOverruledOrLimited, Johnson v. Eisentrager]
-
A.
Johnson v. Zerbst
Johnson v. Zerbst is a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held federal courts must provide counsel to indigent defendants in serious criminal cases unless there is a competent and intelligent waiver.
-
B.
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. is a landmark 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that broadly affirmed the president’s independent and plenary authority in conducting foreign affairs.
-
C.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
-
D.
United States v. Carolene Products Co.
United States v. Carolene Products Co. is a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court case best known for its Footnote Four, which laid the groundwork for modern constitutional scrutiny of legislation affecting fundamental rights and discrete and insular minorities.
-
E.
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.
- 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: Johnson v. Eisentrager Target entity description: Johnson v. Eisentrager is a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held nonresident enemy aliens detained outside U.S. sovereign territory had no constitutional right to seek habeas corpus in American courts.
-
A.
Johnson v. Zerbst
Johnson v. Zerbst is a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held federal courts must provide counsel to indigent defendants in serious criminal cases unless there is a competent and intelligent waiver.
-
B.
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. is a landmark 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that broadly affirmed the president’s independent and plenary authority in conducting foreign affairs.
-
C.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
-
D.
United States v. Carolene Products Co.
United States v. Carolene Products Co. is a 1938 U.S. Supreme Court case best known for its Footnote Four, which laid the groundwork for modern constitutional scrutiny of legislation affecting fundamental rights and discrete and insular minorities.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
ⓘ
legal case ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
constitutional law
ⓘ
federal courts ⓘ national security law ⓘ |
| argued |
1950-04-17
ⓘ
1950-04-18 ⓘ |
| chiefJustice |
Fred M. Vinson
ⓘ
linked to:
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
|
| citation |
339 U.S. 763
ⓘ
70 S. Ct. 936 ⓘ 94 L. Ed. 1255 ⓘ |
| constitutionalProvisionDiscussed |
Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
ⓘ
Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Constitution, Sixth Amendment
Suspension Clause of the U.S. Constitution ⓘ
linked to:
Suspension Clause
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 1950-06-05 ⓘ |
| detentionLocation |
Landsberg Prison, American Zone of Occupation, Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Landsberg Prison
|
| dissentingOpinionBy | Hugo L. Black ⓘ |
| fullCaseName |
Johnson, Secretary of Defense v. Eisentrager et al.
ⓘ
linked to:
Johnson v. Eisentrager
|
| holding | Nonresident enemy aliens detained outside U.S. sovereign territory have no constitutional right to seek habeas corpus in U.S. courts ⓘ |
| impact | Limited the reach of U.S. constitutional protections to foreign nationals held outside U.S. sovereign territory ⓘ |
| joinedDissent |
Frank Murphy
ⓘ
William O. Douglas ⓘ |
| joinedMajority |
Felix Frankfurter
ⓘ
Fred M. Vinson ⓘ
linked to:
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
Harold H. Burton ⓘ Sherman Minton ⓘ Stanley F. Reed ⓘ
linked to:
Stanley Reed
Tom C. Clark ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
availability of habeas corpus to enemy aliens
ⓘ
extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution ⓘ jurisdiction of U.S. federal courts ⓘ |
| lowerCourt | United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ |
| lowerCourtHolding | Held that U.S. courts had jurisdiction to entertain habeas corpus petitions of the German prisoners ⓘ |
| majorityOpinionBy | Robert H. Jackson ⓘ |
| parties |
Hans Eisentrager
ⓘ
Lyle B. Johnson ⓘ |
| petitionerRole |
Secretary of Defense of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Secretary of Defense
|
| proceduralPosture | Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Boumediene v. Bush
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush
Ex parte Quirin ⓘ
linked to:
Ex parte Quirin (U.S. Supreme Court case)
Rasul v. Bush ⓘ |
| respondentDescription | German nationals captured and tried by a U.S. military commission in China after World War II ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | rights of enemy aliens in wartime ⓘ |
| supremeCourtDisposition | Reversed the judgment of the Court of Appeals ⓘ |
| term | October Term 1949 ⓘ |
| timePeriodContext | post-World War II occupation of Germany ⓘ |
| yearDecided | 1950 ⓘ |
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: Johnson v. Eisentrager Description of subject: Johnson v. Eisentrager is a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that held nonresident enemy aliens detained outside U.S. sovereign territory had no constitutional right to seek habeas corpus in American courts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.