Carey W. Hayes
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Carey W. Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including the hit supernatural franchise "The Conjuring."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carey W. Hayes canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748150 — 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: Carey W. Hayes Context triple: [The Conjuring, writer, Carey W. Hayes]
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A.
Timothy P. Boyle
Timothy P. Boyle is an American businessman best known as the longtime president and CEO who led Columbia Sportswear’s growth into a major global outdoor apparel company.
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B.
Mark D. Bailey
Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Leslie L. Byrne
Leslie L. Byrne is an American Democratic politician who was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia.
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D.
Bryan T. Barry
Bryan T. Barry was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the late 19th century.
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E.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Carey W. Hayes Target entity description: Carey W. Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including the hit supernatural franchise "The Conjuring."
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A.
Timothy P. Boyle
Timothy P. Boyle is an American businessman best known as the longtime president and CEO who led Columbia Sportswear’s growth into a major global outdoor apparel company.
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B.
Mark D. Bailey
Mark D. Bailey is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Leslie L. Byrne
Leslie L. Byrne is an American Democratic politician who was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia.
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D.
Bryan T. Barry
Bryan T. Barry was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the late 19th century.
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E.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| basedOn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| collaboratesWith | Chad Hayes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
horror cinema
ⓘ
screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-writing The Conjuring franchise
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writing horror screenplays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
House of Wax (2005 film)
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The Conjuring ⓘ The Conjuring 2 ⓘ The Conjuring Universe (contributions) ⓘ The Reaping ⓘ Whiteout (2009 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| sibling | Chad Hayes ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| writingPartner | Chad Hayes ⓘ |
| wroteGenre |
supernatural horror
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
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: Carey W. Hayes Description of subject: Carey W. Hayes is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular horror films, including the hit supernatural franchise "The Conjuring."
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