The Red Record
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The Red Record is Ida B. Wells’s groundbreaking 1895 pamphlet that systematically documents and analyzes lynching in the United States to expose its racial and political motives.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Red Record canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2683820 — 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 Red Record Context triple: [Ida B. Wells, notableWork, The Red Record]
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A.
The Man from Elysian Fields
The Man from Elysian Fields is a 2001 drama film in which Andy García plays a struggling writer who becomes a high-end escort, leading to complex moral and personal entanglements.
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B.
Island in the Sun
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C.
One of Ours
One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
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D.
The Last of the Finest
The Last of the Finest is a 1990 American crime-action film about a group of maverick cops who uncover a high-level drug and corruption conspiracy.
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E.
The Revolution
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- 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 Red Record Target entity description: The Red Record is Ida B. Wells’s groundbreaking 1895 pamphlet that systematically documents and analyzes lynching in the United States to expose its racial and political motives.
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A.
The Man from Elysian Fields
The Man from Elysian Fields is a 2001 drama film in which Andy García plays a struggling writer who becomes a high-end escort, leading to complex moral and personal entanglements.
-
B.
Island in the Sun
"Island in the Sun" is a 1957 calypso-style song by Harry Belafonte that became one of his signature hits and is closely associated with Caribbean themes and imagery.
-
C.
One of Ours
One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
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D.
The Last of the Finest
The Last of the Finest is a 1990 American crime-action film about a group of maverick cops who uncover a high-level drug and corruption conspiracy.
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E.
The Revolution
The Revolution is the American funk rock band best known as Prince’s backing group during his peak 1980s period, including the Purple Rain era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical document
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nonfiction work ⓘ pamphlet ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
challenge narratives of Black criminality
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expose false justifications for lynching ⓘ mobilize opposition to lynching ⓘ |
| analyzes |
causes of lynching
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political motives of lynching ⓘ racial motives of lynching ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
African American civil rights movement
ⓘ
linked to:
American civil rights movement
anti-lynching movement ⓘ |
| author | Ida B. Wells ⓘ |
| circulationType | mass-distributed reform literature ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| critiques |
U.S. legal system’s failure to prosecute lynchers
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complicity of local authorities in lynching ⓘ sensationalist press coverage of alleged Black crimes ⓘ |
| documents |
lynching cases
ⓘ
statistics on lynching ⓘ |
| field |
African American history
ⓘ
U.S. social history ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod |
late 19th century United States
ⓘ
post-Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| form | pamphlet-length publication ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-lynching literature
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political pamphlet ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | African American woman activist ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Jim Crow era
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linked to:
Jim Crow laws
|
| influenced |
later civil rights activism
ⓘ
subsequent anti-lynching campaigns ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
American public
ⓘ
reformers and policymakers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American civil rights
ⓘ
lynching in the United States ⓘ racial violence ⓘ white supremacy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first comprehensive studies of lynching
ⓘ
challenging the myth that lynching punished rape ⓘ linking lynching to economic and political control ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1895 ⓘ |
| publisherType | reform press ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor | Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
statistical analysis
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systematic data collection ⓘ |
| usesSource |
newspaper reports
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public records ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Red Record Description of subject: The Red Record is Ida B. Wells’s groundbreaking 1895 pamphlet that systematically documents and analyzes lynching in the United States to expose its racial and political motives.
Referenced by (2)
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subject linked to:
Ida