Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral
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Mamie Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till and a pivotal civil rights figure whose courageous decision to publicly display her son’s brutalized body helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
All labels observed (1)
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| Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2005370 — 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: Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral Context triple: [Murder of Emmett Till, motherDecision, Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral]
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Myrlie Evers
Myrlie Evers is an American civil rights activist, author, and former NAACP chair best known for her decades-long advocacy for racial justice following the assassination of her husband, Medgar Evers.
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B.
Yolanda King
Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
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C.
Murder of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
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D.
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Emma Tillinger Koskoff is an American film producer best known for her longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on acclaimed films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, and The Irishman.
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E.
Bernice King
Bernice King is an American minister, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who serves as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and works to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolence and social justice.
- 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: Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral Target entity description: Mamie Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till and a pivotal civil rights figure whose courageous decision to publicly display her son’s brutalized body helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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A.
Myrlie Evers
Myrlie Evers is an American civil rights activist, author, and former NAACP chair best known for her decades-long advocacy for racial justice following the assassination of her husband, Medgar Evers.
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B.
Yolanda King
Yolanda King was an American activist, actress, and the eldest daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., known for her work promoting nonviolence and social justice.
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C.
Murder of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
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D.
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Emma Tillinger Koskoff is an American film producer best known for her longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on acclaimed films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Departed, and The Irishman.
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E.
Bernice King
Bernice King is an American minister, lawyer, and civil rights advocate who serves as CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and works to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolence and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
anti-lynching legislation
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racial justice ⓘ |
| birthName | Mamie Elizabeth Carthan ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfFame | response to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Christopher Benson ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Mamie Till-Mobley
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surface form:
Mamie Till-Mobley Memorial Foundation
|
| commemoratedIn | museums and memorials dedicated to Emmett Till ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-11-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-01-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Chicago Teachers College North
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago Teachers College
|
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| familyName | Till-Mobley ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mamie ⓘ |
| influenced |
American public opinion on racial violence
ⓘ
growth of the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ |
| keyEvent |
insisted on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till in Chicago
ⓘ
traveled to Mississippi to retrieve Emmett Till’s body ⓘ |
| knownFor |
allowing Jet magazine to photograph Emmett Till’s body
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publicly displaying Emmett Till’s brutalized body ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legacy |
catalyst for later civil rights activism
ⓘ
symbol of maternal courage in the face of racial terror ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
Jet magazine
ⓘ
Chicago Defender ⓘ
surface form:
The Chicago Defender
|
| motherOf | Emmett Till ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
American Civil Rights Movement
|
| notableFor |
galvanizing the modern Civil Rights Movement
ⓘ
insisting on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till ⓘ |
| notableWork | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights leader
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Webb, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfKeyEvent | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gene Mobley
ⓘ
Louis Till ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America ⓘ |
| yearOfKeyEvent | 1955 ⓘ |
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Subject: Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral Description of subject: Mamie Till-Mobley was the mother of Emmett Till and a pivotal civil rights figure whose courageous decision to publicly display her son’s brutalized body helped galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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