Till-Mobley
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Till-Mobley is the hyphenated surname of Mamie Till-Mobley, the American educator and civil rights activist whose son Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Till-Mobley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9420771 — 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: Till-Mobley Context triple: [Mamie Till-Mobley, familyName, Till-Mobley]
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A.
Martell Holt
Martell Holt is a reality television personality and entrepreneur best known for his prominent role on the OWN series "Love & Marriage: Huntsville."
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B.
Anthony Tillmon Williams
Anthony Tillmon Williams, better known as Tony Williams, was a highly influential American jazz drummer renowned for his innovative work with the Miles Davis Quintet and his pioneering role in jazz fusion.
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C.
Sammy Breedlove
Sammy Breedlove is a minor character in Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye," known as Pecola Breedlove’s troubled and often violent older brother.
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D.
Sean Moore
Sean Moore is the drummer and a founding member of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
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E.
Tilane Jones
Tilane Jones is a film industry executive and producer known for her leadership role at ARRAY, the independent distribution and arts collective founded by Ava DuVernay that champions diverse voices in cinema.
- 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: Till-Mobley Target entity description: Till-Mobley is the hyphenated surname of Mamie Till-Mobley, the American educator and civil rights activist whose son Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement.
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A.
Martell Holt
Martell Holt is a reality television personality and entrepreneur best known for his prominent role on the OWN series "Love & Marriage: Huntsville."
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B.
Anthony Tillmon Williams
Anthony Tillmon Williams, better known as Tony Williams, was a highly influential American jazz drummer renowned for his innovative work with the Miles Davis Quintet and his pioneering role in jazz fusion.
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C.
Sammy Breedlove
Sammy Breedlove is a minor character in Toni Morrison’s novel "The Bluest Eye," known as Pecola Breedlove’s troubled and often violent older brother.
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D.
Sean Moore
Sean Moore is the drummer and a founding member of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers.
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E.
Tilane Jones
Tilane Jones is a film industry executive and producer known for her leadership role at ARRAY, the independent distribution and arts collective founded by Ava DuVernay that champions diverse voices in cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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educator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
anti-lynching legislation
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civil rights education ⓘ racial justice ⓘ |
| afterTheEvent | became a prominent public speaker on racial violence ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1921-11-23 ⓘ |
| birthName | Mamie Elizabeth Carthan ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability | response to the 1955 lynching of her son Emmett Till ⓘ |
| child | Emmett Till ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Christopher Benson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2003-01-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Chicago Teachers College
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago Teachers College North
|
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Till-Mobley ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Mamie ⓘ |
| hasHyphenatedSurname | Till-Mobley ⓘ |
| inspired | civil rights leaders and activists of the 1950s and 1960s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
insisting on an open-casket funeral for Emmett Till
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mother of Emmett Till ⓘ role in catalyzing the modern Civil Rights Movement ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of maternal activism in the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ |
| movement |
American Civil Rights Movement
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linked to:
American civil rights movement
|
| notableWork |
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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Open-casket funeral of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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school administrator ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Webb, Mississippi ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Chicago, Illinois
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linked to:
Chicago
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois
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linked to:
Chicago
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gene Mobley
ⓘ
Louis Till ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
film "Women of the Movement"
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linked to:
Women of the Movement
numerous documentaries about Emmett Till ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Chicago public schools
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linked to:
Chicago Public Schools
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Till-Mobley Description of subject: Till-Mobley is the hyphenated surname of Mamie Till-Mobley, the American educator and civil rights activist whose son Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral
subject linked to:
Till-Mobley
subject linked to:
Till-Mobley