Chad Hayes
E210493
Chad Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including "The Conjuring," often in collaboration with his twin brother Carey W. Hayes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chad Hayes canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748149 — 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: Chad Hayes Context triple: [The Conjuring, writer, Chad Hayes]
-
A.
Chad Hugo
Chad Hugo is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter best known as one half of the influential production duo The Neptunes, alongside Pharrell Williams.
-
B.
Adam Chapman
Adam Chapman is a television producer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary series "Our Planet."
-
C.
Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Horcoff is a former NHL center, best known for his long tenure with the Edmonton Oilers, who transitioned into hockey management after retiring as a player.
-
D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
-
E.
Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin is an American chemist and nanotechnology pioneer known for inventing dip-pen nanolithography and developing spherical nucleic acids for biomedical applications.
- 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: Chad Hayes Target entity description: Chad Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including "The Conjuring," often in collaboration with his twin brother Carey W. Hayes.
-
A.
Chad Hugo
Chad Hugo is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter best known as one half of the influential production duo The Neptunes, alongside Pharrell Williams.
-
B.
Adam Chapman
Adam Chapman is a television producer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary series "Our Planet."
-
C.
Shawn Horcoff
Shawn Horcoff is a former NHL center, best known for his long tenure with the Edmonton Oilers, who transitioned into hockey management after retiring as a player.
-
D.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
-
E.
Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin is an American chemist and nanotechnology pioneer known for inventing dip-pen nanolithography and developing spherical nucleic acids for biomedical applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriter | Carey W. Hayes ⓘ |
| coWrote |
House of Wax (2005 film)
ⓘ
The Conjuring ⓘ The Conjuring 2 ⓘ The Reaping ⓘ Whiteout (2009 film) ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
horror cinema
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
horror film
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| hasTwinSibling | Carey W. Hayes ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing popular horror films
ⓘ
collaborations with his twin brother Carey W. Hayes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
House of Wax (2005 film)
ⓘ
The Conjuring ⓘ The Conjuring 2 ⓘ The Reaping ⓘ Whiteout (2009 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Carey W. Hayes ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Chad Hayes Description of subject: Chad Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including "The Conjuring," often in collaboration with his twin brother Carey W. Hayes.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Christine in The Conjuring
subject linked to:
Bathsheba in The Conjuring
subject linked to:
Roger Perron in The Conjuring