Harold Hayes
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Harold Hayes was an influential American magazine editor best known for transforming Esquire in the 1960s into a flagship of New Journalism and cutting-edge cultural commentary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Hayes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8501094 — 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: Harold Hayes Context triple: [Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, editor, Harold Hayes]
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A.
Harold Briggs
Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Harold Huth
Harold Huth was a British film director, producer, and occasional actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his work in the British studio system.
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D.
Harold William Tilman
Harold William Tilman was a renowned British mountaineer and explorer noted for pioneering climbs and adventurous sea voyages to remote regions in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Harold Henry Reese
Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese was a Hall of Fame shortstop for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, renowned for his leadership and his supportive role in Jackie Robinson’s integration of Major League Baseball.
- 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: Harold Hayes Target entity description: Harold Hayes was an influential American magazine editor best known for transforming Esquire in the 1960s into a flagship of New Journalism and cutting-edge cultural commentary.
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A.
Harold Briggs
Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
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B.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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C.
Harold Huth
Harold Huth was a British film director, producer, and occasional actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his work in the British studio system.
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D.
Harold William Tilman
Harold William Tilman was a renowned British mountaineer and explorer noted for pioneering climbs and adventurous sea voyages to remote regions in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Harold Henry Reese
Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese was a Hall of Fame shortstop for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, renowned for his leadership and his supportive role in Jackie Robinson’s integration of Major League Baseball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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magazine editor ⓘ |
| contributedTo | rise of New Journalism in mainstream media ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Esquire
ⓘ
linked to:
Esquire magazine
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| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
magazine publishing ⓘ |
| genre | New Journalism ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting |
cultural commentary
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literary journalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
American magazine journalism
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narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cutting-edge cultural commentary
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promoting New Journalism ⓘ transforming Esquire in the 1960s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaTypeWorkedIn | print magazines ⓘ |
| movement | New Journalism ⓘ |
| name | Harold Hayes ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
developing Esquire as a flagship of New Journalism
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publishing innovative long-form nonfiction ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing provocative and experimental magazine covers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Esquire magazine (1960s era)
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linked to:
Esquire magazine
|
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
magazine editor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-in-chief of Esquire ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Harold Hayes Description of subject: Harold Hayes was an influential American magazine editor best known for transforming Esquire in the 1960s into a flagship of New Journalism and cutting-edge cultural commentary.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.