Denis Hayes

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Denis Hayes is an American environmental advocate best known for organizing the first Earth Day and helping launch the modern environmental movement.

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Denis Hayes canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf environmental activist
environmentalist
human
non-fiction writer
advocatesFor climate change mitigation
environmental protection
renewable energy policy
sustainable urban development
appointedBy Jimmy Carter
awardReceived John Muir Award
Jefferson Award for Public Service
surface form: National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen

Rachel Carson Award
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1944-08-29
educatedAt Harvard University
Stanford University
employer Bullitt Foundation
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
surface form: Solar Energy Research Institute
fieldOfWork environmentalism
renewable energy
sustainability
genre environmental literature
hasGender male
hasInfluenced environmental education in the United States
modern environmental movement
knownFor helping launch the modern environmental movement
leadership in environmental and energy policy
organizing the first Earth Day
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Earth Day Network
surface form: Earth Day movement

environmental movement
notableWork Earth Day
surface form: Earth Day 1990 global campaign

The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
organization of the first Earth Day
occupation author
environmental advocate
environmental lawyer
public speaker
participatedIn Earth Day 1990
Earth Day
surface form: first Earth Day (1970)

global environmental policy advocacy
placeOfBirth Ridgefield, Washington
surface form: Ridgefield, Washington, United States
positionHeld CEO of the Bullitt Foundation
chair of Earth Day 1990
director of the Solar Energy Research Institute
national coordinator of the first Earth Day
president of the Bullitt Foundation
residence Seattle, Washington, United States

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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.
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Subject: Denis Hayes
Description of subject: Denis Hayes is an American environmental advocate best known for organizing the first Earth Day and helping launch the modern environmental movement.

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Earth Day wasCoordinatedBy Denis Hayes