Cool Papa Bell

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Cool Papa Bell was an American center fielder renowned as one of the fastest and most dynamic stars in Negro league baseball history.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cool Papa Bell canonical 7
Cool Papa 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
bats left
battingAverageApprox .300-plus in Negro leagues (various estimates)
battingStyle contact hitter
birthName James Thomas Bell
burialPlace St. Peter's Cemetery, Normandy, Missouri, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1903-05-17
dateOfDeath 1991-03-07
era Negro league baseball era
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Bell
fieldingPosition outfielder
givenName James
hallOfFameInduction National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
surface form: National Baseball Hall of Fame
hallOfFameInductionYear 1974
heritage Mississippi-born African American athlete
honor considered one of the fastest players in baseball history
knownFor base stealing
defensive range in center field
exceptional speed
league Negro Leagues
surface form: Negro leagues
memberOfSportsTeam Águilas Cibaeñas
surface form: Aguilas Cibaeñas

Chicago American Giants
Cuban House of David
Cuban Stars (East)
Detroit Wolves
Homestead Grays
Kansas City Monarchs (baseball)
surface form: Kansas City Monarchs

Pittsburgh Crawfords
Dominican Republic national baseball team
surface form: Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic team)

St. Louis Stars
name Cool Papa Bell self-link
nickname Cool Papa Bell self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cool Papa
notableQuoteAbout Satchel Paige allegedly said Bell was so fast he could turn off the light and be in bed before the room was dark
occupation baseball player
placeOfBirth Starkville, Mississippi
surface form: Starkville, Mississippi, United States
placeOfDeath St. Louis, Missouri, United States
playedAbroad Cuba
Dominican Republic
Mexico
playedInLeague Negro American League
Negro National League
positionPlayed center fielder
residence St. Louis, Missouri, United States
sexOrGender male
sport baseball
throws left

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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: Cool Papa Bell
Description of subject: Cool Papa Bell was an American center fielder renowned as one of the fastest and most dynamic stars in Negro league baseball history.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Negro National League notablePlayer Cool Papa Bell
Cool Papa Bell name Cool Papa Bell self-link
Cool Papa Bell nickname Cool Papa Bell self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cool Papa
St. Louis Stars notablePlayer Cool Papa Bell
St. Louis Stars hadHallOfFamer Cool Papa Bell
Negro Leagues notablePlayer Cool Papa Bell
Homestead Grays notablePlayer Cool Papa Bell