Tom Hayden
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Tom Hayden was a prominent American social and political activist, author, and politician best known as a leader of the 1960s New Left and a key figure in the anti–Vietnam War and civil rights movements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Hayden canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4559552 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Hayden Context triple: [The Trial of the Chicago 7, mainCharacter, Tom Hayden]
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Mario Savio
Mario Savio was a prominent American political activist best known as a leading voice and orator of the 1960s student protest movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
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B.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale is an American political activist best known as the co-founder and early leader of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organization central to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Toby in Tim Burton’s 2007 film adaptation of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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D.
A. J. Muste
A. J. Muste was a prominent 20th-century American clergyman, labor organizer, and pacifist leader known for his influential role in the nonviolent peace and civil rights movements.
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E.
Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes is an American environmental advocate best known for organizing the first Earth Day and helping launch the modern environmental movement.
- 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: Tom Hayden Target entity description: Tom Hayden was a prominent American social and political activist, author, and politician best known as a leader of the 1960s New Left and a key figure in the anti–Vietnam War and civil rights movements.
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A.
Mario Savio
Mario Savio was a prominent American political activist best known as a leading voice and orator of the 1960s student protest movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
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B.
Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale is an American political activist best known as the co-founder and early leader of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary organization central to the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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C.
Ed Sanders
Ed Sanders is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Toby in Tim Burton’s 2007 film adaptation of the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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D.
A. J. Muste
A. J. Muste was a prominent 20th-century American clergyman, labor organizer, and pacifist leader known for his influential role in the nonviolent peace and civil rights movements.
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E.
Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes is an American environmental advocate best known for organizing the first Earth Day and helping launch the modern environmental movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ political activist ⓘ politician ⓘ social activist ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
civil rights
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environmental causes ⓘ peace movement ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas Emmet Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from a stroke ⓘ |
| child | Troy Garity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-12-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-10-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterAffiliation | Progressive Democrats of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Students for a Democratic Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
New Left
NERFINISHED
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anti–Vietnam War movement NERFINISHED ⓘ American civil rights movement ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
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| notableWork |
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
NERFINISHED
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Port Huron Statement NERFINISHED ⓘ Reunion NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Royal Oak, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the California State Assembly
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member of the California State Senate ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| role | principal author of the Port Huron Statement ⓘ |
| spouse |
Barbara Williams
NERFINISHED
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Jane Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra Cason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasTriedAs | member of the Chicago Seven ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
American politics
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Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ social movements ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tom Hayden Description of subject: Tom Hayden was a prominent American social and political activist, author, and politician best known as a leader of the 1960s New Left and a key figure in the anti–Vietnam War and civil rights movements.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicago 10
subject surface form:
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
subject surface form:
Jane Fonda