James J. Braddock

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James J. Braddock was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the 1930s whose underdog comeback during the Great Depression earned him the nickname "Cinderella Man."

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
James J. Braddock canonical 8
James Joseph Braddock 1
Jimmy Braddock 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
professional boxer
world heavyweight boxing champion
alsoKnownAs James J. Braddock
surface form: James Joseph Braddock
causeOfDeath heart failure
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1905-06-07
dateOfDeath 1974-11-29
endTime 1937
era Great Depression
ethnicGroup Irish American
familyName Braddock
fought Art Lasky
Corn Griffin
Joe Louis
Max Baer Sr.
surface form: Max Baer

Tommy Loughran
givenName James
hallOfFame International Boxing Hall of Fame
handedness orthodox stance
inductedIntoHallOfFame 2001
lostTitleTo Joe Louis
middleName Joseph
militaryService United States Army
nickname Cinderella Man
notableFor underdog comeback during the Great Depression
winning the world heavyweight title from Max Baer in 1935
numberOfChildren 3
occupation boxer
placeOfBirth Manhattan
New York City
surface form: New York

New York City
United States of America
placeOfDeath New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

North Bergen, New Jersey
United States of America
portrayedBy Russell Crowe
residence New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

North Bergen, New Jersey
United States of America
sexOrGender male
sport boxing
spouse Mae Fox
startTime 1935
subjectOf Cinderella Man
surface form: film "Cinderella Man"
titleHeld World Heavyweight Champion
weightClass heavyweight
wonTitleAgainst Max Baer Sr.
surface form: Max Baer

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: James J. Braddock
Description of subject: James J. Braddock was an American heavyweight boxing champion of the 1930s whose underdog comeback during the Great Depression earned him the nickname "Cinderella Man."

Referenced by (10)

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

Cinderella Man mainCharacter James J. Braddock
Cinderella Man portrays James J. Braddock
Max Baer Sr. lostTitleTo James J. Braddock
James J. Braddock alsoKnownAs James J. Braddock
this entity surface form: James Joseph Braddock
Joe Gould managed James J. Braddock
Joe Gould collaboratedWith James J. Braddock
Joe Gould representedAthlete James J. Braddock
Rosemarie DeWitt relative James J. Braddock
this entity surface form: Jimmy Braddock
Rosemarie DeWitt relative James J. Braddock