Life of a Klansman
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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.
All labels observed (1)
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| Life of a Klansman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10205960 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Life of a Klansman Context triple: [Edward Ball, notableWork, Life of a Klansman]
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A.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization led for a time by David Duke that promotes racist, antisemitic, and extremist ideologies.
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B.
KLAN
KLAN is the ICAO airport code for Capital Region International Airport, a public airport serving the Lansing, Michigan area in the United States.
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C.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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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.
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E.
The KKK Took My Baby Away
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its catchy melody and darkly humorous lyrics about a lover being taken away.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of a Klansman Target entity description: 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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A.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi organization led for a time by David Duke that promotes racist, antisemitic, and extremist ideologies.
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B.
KLAN
KLAN is the ICAO airport code for Capital Region International Airport, a public airport serving the Lansing, Michigan area in the United States.
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C.
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a 1905 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that glorifies the Ku Klux Klan and provided the basis for D. W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation.
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D.
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.
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E.
The KKK Took My Baby Away
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, known for its catchy melody and darkly humorous lyrics about a lover being taken away.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
history book
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| aboutEvent |
racial terror in the Reconstruction South
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rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the American Civil War ⓘ |
| author | Edward Ball ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| exploresTheme |
Southern identity
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intergenerational guilt ⓘ legacy of racism ⓘ memory and history ⓘ violence of white supremacy ⓘ |
| focusesOn | Edward Ball’s ancestor who was a Klansman ⓘ |
| genre |
family history
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historical nonfiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasForm |
biographical narrative
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historical investigation ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | white Southern family perspective on the Klan ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Edward Ball family history
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Ku Klux Klan ⓘ racism in the United States ⓘ white supremacy in the American South ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ hardcover ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | first-person investigation ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Slaves in the Family ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
Reconstruction era
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post–Civil War American South ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Louisiana ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
book reviews in major U.S. newspapers
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public discussions on race and memory in the United States ⓘ |
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Subject: Life of a Klansman Description of subject: 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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