The Lynching
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"The Lynching" is a powerful anti-lynching poem by Claude McKay that starkly condemns racial violence and its brutal impact on Black communities in early 20th-century America.
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| The Lynching canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12609964 — 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: The Lynching Context triple: [Harlem Shadows, containsPoem, The Lynching]
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A.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
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B.
The Man They Could Not Hang
The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1934 Australian film directed by Raymond Longford, dramatizing the true story of John Babbacombe Lee, a man who survived multiple failed execution attempts.
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C.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
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D.
Life of a Klansman
Life of a Klansman is a nonfiction book by Edward Ball that investigates his own family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and explores the broader history of white supremacy in the American South.
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E.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
- 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: The Lynching Target entity description: "The Lynching" is a powerful anti-lynching poem by Claude McKay that starkly condemns racial violence and its brutal impact on Black communities in early 20th-century America.
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A.
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
-
B.
The Man They Could Not Hang
The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1934 Australian film directed by Raymond Longford, dramatizing the true story of John Babbacombe Lee, a man who survived multiple failed execution attempts.
-
C.
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
-
D.
Life of a Klansman
Life of a Klansman is a nonfiction book by Edward Ball that investigates his own family’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan and explores the broader history of white supremacy in the American South.
-
E.
The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
"The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
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