Michael Hayes
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Michael Hayes was a British television director best known for his work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who, including the acclaimed serial "City of Death."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Hayes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12196957 — 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: Michael Hayes Context triple: [City of Death, director, Michael Hayes]
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A.
John Hayes
John Hayes is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the data storage company Pure Storage.
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B.
John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including writing the screenplay for "Rear Window."
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C.
Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes is a British diplomat and civil servant who has served in senior roles including Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory.
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D.
Philip Dunn
Philip Dunn is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Gregory J. Hayes
Gregory J. Hayes is an American business executive best known for leading major aerospace and defense companies, including serving as CEO of RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies).
- 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: Michael Hayes Target entity description: Michael Hayes was a British television director best known for his work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who, including the acclaimed serial "City of Death."
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A.
John Hayes
John Hayes is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the data storage company Pure Storage.
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B.
John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including writing the screenplay for "Rear Window."
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C.
Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes is a British diplomat and civil servant who has served in senior roles including Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory.
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D.
Philip Dunn
Philip Dunn is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Gregory J. Hayes
Gregory J. Hayes is an American business executive best known for leading major aerospace and defense companies, including serving as CEO of RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
person ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Doctor Who serial "City of Death"
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linked to:
Doctor Who story "City of Death"
Doctor Who serial "The Androids of Tara" ⓘ Doctor Who serial "The Armageddon Factor" ⓘ |
| employer | BBC ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television
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television directing ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing Doctor Who
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directing the Doctor Who serial "City of Death" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | work on classic-era Doctor Who ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"City of Death"
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linked to:
City of Death
Doctor Who ⓘ |
| occupation | television director ⓘ |
| partOf | classic Doctor Who production team ⓘ |
| workedOn |
"City of Death"
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linked to:
City of Death
"The Androids of Tara" ⓘ
linked to:
The Androids of Tara
"The Armageddon Factor" ⓘ
linked to:
The Armageddon Factor
Doctor Who ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Lalla Ward
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Tom Baker ⓘ |
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: Michael Hayes Description of subject: Michael Hayes was a British television director best known for his work on the classic science fiction series Doctor Who, including the acclaimed serial "City of Death."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.