Emmett Till
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Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emmett Till canonical | 28 |
| Emmett Louis Till | 1 |
| Emmett Till (original grave site) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9420616 — 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: Emmett Till Context triple: [Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, hasNotablePersonEvent, Emmett Till]
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A.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
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B.
Gertrude Ross Till
Gertrude Ross Till was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer George Read.
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C.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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E.
Louis Till
Louis Till was an African American man and U.S. Army private best known as the father of Emmett Till, whose life and controversial military death later drew renewed attention during the civil rights era.
- 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: Emmett Till Target entity description: Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
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A.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
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B.
Gertrude Ross Till
Gertrude Ross Till was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer George Read.
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C.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
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D.
Eugene Williams
Eugene Williams was a Black teenager whose death after being attacked for drifting into a whites-only area of Lake Michigan helped ignite the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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E.
Louis Till
Louis Till was an African American man and U.S. Army private best known as the father of Emmett Till, whose life and controversial military death later drew renewed attention during the civil rights era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights movement figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ victim of lynching ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 14 ⓘ |
| allegedIncidentPrecedingLynching | accusation of offending Carolyn Bryant in a grocery store ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bobo Till ⓘ |
| associatedLegalDevelopment | renewed federal investigations into civil rights–era cold cases ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| bodyDiscoveredIn | Tallahatchie River ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
homicide
ⓘ
lynching ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1955-08-28 ⓘ |
| education | student at McCosh Elementary School (Chicago) ⓘ |
| era | Jim Crow era in the United States ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Till ⓘ |
| father | Louis Till ⓘ |
| fullName |
Emmett Louis Till
ⓘ
linked to:
Emmett Till
|
| givenName | Emmett ⓘ |
| hasRoleInHistory | symbol of the brutality of Jim Crow–era racism in the United States ⓘ |
| impact |
catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement
ⓘ
galvanized national and international attention to racial violence in the U.S. South ⓘ |
| locationOfLynching | near Money, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | violent death ⓘ |
| memorializedBy |
Emmett Till Interpretive Center
ⓘ
Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument ⓘ
linked to:
Emmett Till Interpretive Center
historical markers in Mississippi ⓘ |
| mother | Mamie Till-Mobley ⓘ |
| notableEvent | murder of Emmett Till ⓘ |
| notableFor | his 1955 lynching and its impact on the U.S. civil rights movement ⓘ |
| perpetrator |
J. W. Milam
ⓘ
Roy Bryant ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Money, Mississippi, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Jet magazine open-casket funeral photographs
ⓘ
book "Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America" ⓘ documentary film "The Murder of Emmett Till" ⓘ
linked to:
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
numerous articles and books on U.S. civil rights history ⓘ |
| trialOutcome | acquittal of the defendants by an all-white jury ⓘ |
| trialRelatedToDeath |
State of Mississippi v. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam
ⓘ
linked to:
Murder of Emmett Till
|
| victimOf |
racially motivated violence
ⓘ
white supremacist violence ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Emmett Till Description of subject: Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States
subject linked to:
Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on open-casket funeral
subject linked to:
Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
subject linked to:
Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip, Illinois, United States
linked to: Emmett Till
subject linked to:
Till-Mobley
subject linked to:
Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, Money, Mississippi
linked to: Emmett Till