Carl Lee Hailey
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Carl Lee Hailey is a Black Mississippi father who becomes the central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "A Time to Kill" after he kills the men who brutally assaulted his young daughter, sparking a racially charged murder trial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl Lee Hailey canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7499447 — 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: Carl Lee Hailey Context triple: [A Time to Kill, mainCharacter, Carl Lee Hailey]
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A.
Raymond Chambers
Raymond Chambers is an American philanthropist and businessman known for his work in global health initiatives and efforts to combat malaria.
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B.
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
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C.
Melvin Webb
Melvin Webb is a songwriter known for contributing to the country music hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
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D.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
- 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: Carl Lee Hailey Target entity description: Carl Lee Hailey is a Black Mississippi father who becomes the central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "A Time to Kill" after he kills the men who brutally assaulted his young daughter, sparking a racially charged murder trial.
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A.
Raymond Chambers
Raymond Chambers is an American philanthropist and businessman known for his work in global health initiatives and efforts to combat malaria.
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B.
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
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C.
Melvin Webb
Melvin Webb is a songwriter known for contributing to the country music hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
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D.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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E.
Jack Gladney
Jack Gladney is the middle-aged, anxiety-ridden professor who founded the academic field of Hitler studies and narrates Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | 1996 film A Time to Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Time to Kill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationalityContext | American literature ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation |
moral ambiguity of the law
ⓘ
racial tension in the American South ⓘ vigilante justice ⓘ |
| child |
Clorox Hailey
ⓘ
Lester Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonya Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| communityContext | racially segregated Mississippi town ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | John Grisham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defenseAttorney | Jake Brigance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Black ⓘ |
| familyRole | father ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYearContext | 1989 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | legal thriller ⓘ |
| involvedIn | racially charged murder trial ⓘ |
| judgeInTrial | Omar Noose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kills |
Billy Ray Cobb
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Louis Willard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalChargeInStory | capital murder ⓘ |
| legalStatusInStory |
accused of murder
ⓘ
acquitted ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Ford County universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralPerceptionByCommunity | divisive figure ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire to protect his family
ⓘ
revenge for assault on his daughter ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
defendant in murder trial
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| notableQuoteContext | "Yes, they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!" ⓘ |
| occupation | factory worker ⓘ |
| opposedBy | prosecutor Rufus Buckley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Samuel L. Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Canton, Mississippi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ford County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riskInTrial | death penalty ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| spouse | Gwen Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportFrom | NAACP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | Ku Klux Klan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialLocation | Ford County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimOfCrimeInFamily | Tonya Hailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Carl Lee Hailey Description of subject: Carl Lee Hailey is a Black Mississippi father who becomes the central figure in John Grisham’s legal thriller "A Time to Kill" after he kills the men who brutally assaulted his young daughter, sparking a racially charged murder trial.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.