Redemption in Mississippi
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Redemption in Mississippi refers to the late-19th-century political movement in which white supremacist Democrats violently overthrew Reconstruction-era governments to restore white rule and roll back Black civil and political rights in the state.
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| Redemption in Mississippi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20683583 — 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)
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Target entity: Redemption in Mississippi Context triple: [Reconstruction and its rollback, significantEvent, Redemption in Mississippi]
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A.
Three Years in Mississippi
Three Years in Mississippi is a memoir by civil rights pioneer James Meredith recounting his experiences integrating the University of Mississippi and challenging segregation in the American South.
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B.
Three Lives for Mississippi
Three Lives for Mississippi is a 1965 non-fiction book by William Bradford Huie that investigates the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and exposes the racism and violence surrounding the case.
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C.
Ghosts of Mississippi
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
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D.
A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill is a 1996 legal drama film based on John Grisham's novel, centered on a racially charged trial in Mississippi.
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E.
A Time to Kill (novel)
A Time to Kill (novel) is John Grisham’s debut legal thriller about a young lawyer defending a Black father who kills the white men who brutally assaulted his daughter in a racially divided Mississippi town.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Redemption in Mississippi Target entity description: Redemption in Mississippi refers to the late-19th-century political movement in which white supremacist Democrats violently overthrew Reconstruction-era governments to restore white rule and roll back Black civil and political rights in the state.
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A.
Three Years in Mississippi
Three Years in Mississippi is a memoir by civil rights pioneer James Meredith recounting his experiences integrating the University of Mississippi and challenging segregation in the American South.
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B.
Three Lives for Mississippi
Three Lives for Mississippi is a 1965 non-fiction book by William Bradford Huie that investigates the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and exposes the racism and violence surrounding the case.
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C.
Ghosts of Mississippi
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
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D.
A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill is a 1996 legal drama film based on John Grisham's novel, centered on a racially charged trial in Mississippi.
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E.
A Time to Kill (novel)
A Time to Kill (novel) is John Grisham’s debut legal thriller about a young lawyer defending a Black father who kills the white men who brutally assaulted his daughter in a racially divided Mississippi town.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.