Alan Ameche

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Alan Ameche was an American Hall of Fame fullback best known for his game-winning overtime touchdown in the 1958 NFL Championship, often called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

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Label Occurrences
Alan Ameche canonical 6

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American football player
fullback
human
awardReceived Heisman Trophy
NFL Rookie of the Year honors
surface form: NFL Rookie of the Year
businessActivity restaurant owner
causeOfDeath heart failure
collegeAttended University of Wisconsin–Madison
collegeAwardReceived All-American honors
Big Ten rushing records (during his career)
collegeTeam Wisconsin Badgers football
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1933-03-01
dateOfDeath 1988-08-08
draftedBy Baltimore Colts (original NFL Colts franchise)
surface form: Baltimore Colts
draftLeague National Football League
surface form: NFL
draftPickNumber 3
draftRound 1
draftYear 1955
ethnicGroup Italian American
familyName Ameche
founded Ameche's Drive-In restaurants
givenName Alan
hallOfFame College Football Hall of Fame
Pro Football Hall of Fame
hallOfFameInductionYear 1975 (College Football Hall of Fame)
1975 (Pro Football Hall of Fame)
height approximately 6 ft 0 in
jerseyNumber 35
league National Football League
memberOf College Football Hall of Fame
Pro Football Hall of Fame
memberOfSportsTeam Baltimore Colts (original NFL Colts franchise)
surface form: Baltimore Colts
nickname The Horse
notableFor game-winning overtime touchdown in the 1958 NFL Championship Game
participation in the game often called "The Greatest Game Ever Played"
occupation professional American football player
placeOfBirth Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
placeOfDeath Houston, Texas, United States
playedFor Indianapolis Colts
surface form: Baltimore Colts
playedIn 1958 NFL Championship Game
positionPlayed fullback
residence Baltimore, Maryland, United States
scored game-winning overtime touchdown in the 1958 NFL Championship Game
sexOrGender male
sport American football

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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: Alan Ameche
Description of subject: Alan Ameche was an American Hall of Fame fullback best known for his game-winning overtime touchdown in the 1958 NFL Championship, often called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

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