Leflore County, Mississippi, United States
E227138
Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, is a county in the Mississippi Delta historically known as the site of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a pivotal event in the American civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leflore County, Mississippi, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2005350 — 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: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States Context triple: [Murder of Emmett Till, tookPlaceIn, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States]
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A.
Kemper County, Mississippi, United States
Kemper County, Mississippi, United States, is a rural county in eastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of long-serving U.S. Senator John C. Stennis.
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B.
DeSoto County, Mississippi
DeSoto County, Mississippi is a rapidly growing suburban county in northwestern Mississippi that serves as a major part of the greater Memphis metropolitan area.
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C.
Newton County, Mississippi
Newton County, Mississippi is a rural county in east-central Mississippi notable as the birthplace of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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D.
Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States
Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States, is a rural county in central Mississippi known historically for its role in the Jim Crow South and as the birthplace of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
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E.
Lowndes County, Mississippi
Lowndes County, Mississippi is a county in eastern Mississippi known for its county seat, the city of Columbus, and its role in the Golden Triangle region’s industrial and educational economy.
- 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: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States Target entity description: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, is a county in the Mississippi Delta historically known as the site of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a pivotal event in the American civil rights movement.
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A.
Kemper County, Mississippi, United States
Kemper County, Mississippi, United States, is a rural county in eastern Mississippi known as the birthplace of long-serving U.S. Senator John C. Stennis.
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B.
DeSoto County, Mississippi
DeSoto County, Mississippi is a rapidly growing suburban county in northwestern Mississippi that serves as a major part of the greater Memphis metropolitan area.
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C.
Newton County, Mississippi
Newton County, Mississippi is a rural county in east-central Mississippi notable as the birthplace of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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D.
Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States
Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States, is a rural county in central Mississippi known historically for its role in the Jim Crow South and as the birthplace of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.
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E.
Lowndes County, Mississippi
Lowndes County, Mississippi is a county in eastern Mississippi known for its county seat, the city of Columbus, and its role in the Golden Triangle region’s industrial and educational economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
civil rights activism in Mississippi ⓘ racial segregation in the United States ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat |
Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenwood, Mississippi
|
| economyHistoricallyBasedOn | cotton agriculture ⓘ |
| eventLocation | lynching of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| hasAreaCharacteristic | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | majority African American population ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction |
Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenwood, Mississippi
Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Itta Bena, Mississippi
Morgan City, Mississippi ⓘ Schlater, Mississippi ⓘ Sidon, Mississippi ⓘ |
| hasMajorIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| hasTransportationInfrastructure |
Mississippi Highway 7
ⓘ
Mississippi Highway 8 ⓘ U.S. Route 49E NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 82 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Jim Crow laws
ⓘ
surface form:
Jim Crow era in the American South
|
| historicallyKnownFor | lynching of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| largestCity |
Greenwood, Mississippi, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Greenwood, Mississippi
|
| locatedIn |
Mississippi
ⓘ
North Mississippi Delta ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Delta
|
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
North Mississippi Delta
ⓘ
surface form:
Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Tallahatchie River
ⓘ
Yalobusha River NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazoo River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Greenwood LeFlore ⓘ |
| partOf |
Deep South
ⓘ
North Mississippi Delta ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Delta cotton-growing region
North Mississippi Delta ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi Delta region
Mississippi's 2nd congressional district ⓘ
surface form:
Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district
United States South ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Murder of Emmett Till
ⓘ
surface form:
1955 lynching of Emmett Till
|
| state | Mississippi ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| usesLegalSystem |
Mississippi state law
ⓘ
United States law ⓘ |
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: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States Description of subject: Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, is a county in the Mississippi Delta historically known as the site of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a pivotal event in the American civil rights movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.