the life of Ira Hayes
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The life of Ira Hayes centers on the real story of a Pima Native American U.S. Marine who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II and later struggled with trauma, discrimination, and alcoholism after returning home.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the life of Ira Hayes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042796 — 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: the life of Ira Hayes Context triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), basedOn, the life of Ira Hayes]
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A.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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B.
Men of Honor
Men of Honor is a 2000 biographical drama film about the struggles and achievements of Carl Brashear, the U.S. Navy’s first Black master diver.
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C.
Once I Was an Eagle
Once I Was an Eagle is a critically acclaimed 2013 folk album by English singer-songwriter Laura Marling, noted for its intimate, narrative-driven songwriting and sparse, acoustic arrangements.
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D.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
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E.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
- 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: the life of Ira Hayes Target entity description: The life of Ira Hayes centers on the real story of a Pima Native American U.S. Marine who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II and later struggled with trauma, discrimination, and alcoholism after returning home.
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A.
A Soldier's Story
A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
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B.
Men of Honor
Men of Honor is a 2000 biographical drama film about the struggles and achievements of Carl Brashear, the U.S. Navy’s first Black master diver.
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C.
Once I Was an Eagle
Once I Was an Eagle is a critically acclaimed 2013 folk album by English singer-songwriter Laura Marling, noted for its intimate, narrative-driven songwriting and sparse, acoustic arrangements.
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D.
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
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E.
The American Soldier
The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographical film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Ira Hayes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depictsEvent |
Ira Hayes’ experience of discrimination
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Ira Hayes’ return home after World War II ⓘ Ira Hayes’ struggle with alcoholism ⓘ raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Ira Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
effects of fame on veterans
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marginalization of Native Americans ⓘ racism ⓘ social injustice ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Ira Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Battle of Iwo Jima
NERFINISHED
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Native American soldiers
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Pima people NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ alcoholism ⓘ flag raising on Iwo Jima ⓘ post-traumatic stress ⓘ racial discrimination in the United States ⓘ veterans’ struggles after war ⓘ |
| setting |
Arizona
NERFINISHED
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Iwo Jima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
World War II era
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post–World War II United States ⓘ |
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: the life of Ira Hayes Description of subject: The life of Ira Hayes centers on the real story of a Pima Native American U.S. Marine who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II and later struggled with trauma, discrimination, and alcoholism after returning home.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.