Kevin Hart

CTL-E-5884 · Person · other · 1979–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07133 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5884.

Kevin Darnell Hart (born July 6, 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American comedian and actor, raised in Philadelphia by his mother Nancy, who worked as a systems analyst at the University of Pennsylvania. After amateur comedy competitions around New England and a recurring role on the television series Undeclared, he built his reputation through stand-up releases beginning with I'm a Grown Little Man in 2008 and film roles including Think Like a Man (2012), Ride Along (2014), and Central Intelligence (2016). His What Now? tour made him, by Forbes's accounting for June 2015 to June 2016, the highest-paid comedian in the world, ending Jerry Seinfeld's decade at the top of Forbes's list. Time magazine named him to the Time 100, its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2015, and in 2017 he launched the Laugh Out Loud Network in partnership with Lionsgate. Hart remains an active touring comedian and film star in 2026, one of the most commercially successful stand-up performers of his era.

The record

• Also known as: Kevin Darnell Hart

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 8; first Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Kevin Hart entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5884 free. Hand-read, as directed: token hits on 'Hart' in the graph are the Hartman family — Hermene Hartman (CTL-E-1151), Herman Hartman (CTL-E-3962), Johnny Hartman (CTL-E-3963) and The Hartman Group (CTL-E-3964) — plus Stephanie Hart (CTL-E-5074); all are different people from Kevin Hart, and none is an alias or duplicate of this record. Subtype note: 'comedian' is not a legal Person subtype in schema v0.2.6, so this record is staged as subtype 'other'. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan tail tranche (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #392). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — one of the era's defining Black comedians and a Forbes-topping touring figure; a national Black popular-culture record. Vital status: LIVING — profiled as an active comedian and actor in 2026 coverage (Parade, 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Forbes ranked Hart the world's highest-paid comedian for the period June 2015 to June 2016, with earnings of $87.5 million, roughly double the next comedian's, from more than 100 shows in that period (Forbes ranking as reported by NPR, September 2016). No net-worth figure is asserted; published estimates conflict. MEDIA: photo HELD (no image verified at file-page level in this pass; named candidate is the Time 100 (2015) portrait of Kevin Hart); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5884-kevin-hart.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short in the catalog and no verified embeddable archival video staged); audio HELD (no verified archival audio of Kevin Hart staged in this pass). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No verified archival audio of Kevin Hart was staged in this pass.)

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Kevin Hart" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Kevin Darnell Hart, born July 6, 1979 in Philadelphia; raised by his mother Nancy, a University of Pennsylvania systems analyst; recurring role on Undeclared; stand-up albums from I'm a Grown Little Man (2008); Time 100 in 2015; Laugh Out Loud Network launched with Lionsgate in 2017 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hart (build store)
• NPR (via North Country Public Radio), "Kevin Hart And Amy Schumer: The New King And Queen Of Comedy" (September 2016) — Forbes ranked Hart the highest-paid comedian for June 2015–June 2016 at $87.5 million, ending Jerry Seinfeld's decade atop the list, on the strength of a tour of huge venues — https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/495662447/kevin-hart-and-amy-schumer-the-new-king-and-queen-of-comedy (build store)
• Parade, "Kevin Hart Net Worth (2026): How Much Kevin Hart Is Worth" (2026) — current-career profile of Hart as an active comedian and actor in 2026, reporting Forbes tour figures for the What Now? era — https://parade.com/944438/parade/kevin-hart-net-worth/ (build store)

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