Norm Schachter

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Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.

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Label Occurrences
Norm Schachter canonical 5

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American football official
human
awardReceived Art McNally Award
conflict World War II
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-04-30
dateOfDeath 2014-10-02
describedBySource obituaries in major U.S. newspapers
educatedAt City College of New York
University of Southern California
employer Los Angeles Unified School District
National Football League
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
fieldOfWork officiating in American football
genre sports memoir
hasOccupation high school English teacher
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOfSportsTeam NFL officiating crews
militaryBranch United States Army
notableFor early leader in NFL officiating training and evaluation
referee in Super Bowl I
referee in Super Bowl II
referee in Super Bowl III
notableWork Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee
occupation American football official
author
school teacher
participantIn National Football League
Super Bowl I
Super Bowl II
Super Bowl III
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
United States of America
placeOfDeath California, United States
surface form: California

San Clemente, California, United States
surface form: San Clemente, California

United States of America
positionPlayed referee
residence Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California

San Clemente, California, United States
surface form: San Clemente, California
sexOrGender male
sport American football
workPeriod 1954–1976
wrote Close Calls: The Confessions of an NFL Referee

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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.
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Subject: Norm Schachter
Description of subject: Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.

Referenced by (5)

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

Super Bowl I referee Norm Schachter
Super Bowl V referee Norm Schachter
Super Bowl X referee Norm Schachter
1966 NFL Championship Game referee Norm Schachter
1967 NFL Championship Game (Ice Bowl) referee Norm Schachter
subject surface form: 1967 NFL Championship Game