Byron De La Beckwith
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Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Byron De La Beckwith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839406 — 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: Byron De La Beckwith Context triple: [Ghosts of Mississippi, character, Byron De La Beckwith]
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A.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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B.
Roy Bryant
Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
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C.
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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D.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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E.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
- 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: Byron De La Beckwith Target entity description: Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
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A.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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B.
Roy Bryant
Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
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C.
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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D.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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E.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ku Klux Klan member
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human ⓘ white supremacist ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 80 ⓘ |
| arrestedFor | murder of Medgar Evers ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Citizens' Councils NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| causeOfImprisonment | racially motivated murder ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder of Medgar Evers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-11-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 1994-02-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfCrime | 1963-06-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2001-01-21 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| familyName | De La Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Byron De La Beckwith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Byron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | white supremacy ⓘ |
| legalSignificance | example of delayed justice in civil rights era murders ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ku Klux Klan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| notableCourt | Hinds County Circuit Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCrime | murder of Medgar Evers ⓘ |
| notableEvent | retrial for Medgar Evers murder in the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableFor | assassination of Medgar Evers ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation | fertilizer salesman ⓘ |
| opposedBy | civil rights activists ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Pacific Theater of World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| penalty | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Colusa, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfCrime | Jackson, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Jackson, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | opposition to civil rights movement ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Ghosts of Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Louise Williams
NERFINISHED
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Thelma Lindsay Neff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trial |
1964 Medgar Evers murder trials
NERFINISHED
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1994 Medgar Evers murder trial NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialOutcome | hung jury ⓘ |
| victimOfCrime | Medgar Evers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Byron De La Beckwith Description of subject: Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
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