Allen West
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Allen West was an American inmate best known for helping plan the infamous 1962 escape attempt from Alcatraz prison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Allen West canonical | 2 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Alcatraz inmate
ⓘ
American prisoner ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alcatraz Island
ⓘ
San Francisco Bay ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1929-03-25 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Florida ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
acute peritonitis
ⓘ
bleeding ulcers ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
Clarence Anglin
ONNED1
ⓘ
Frank Morris ⓘ John Anglin ⓘ |
| confinedIn |
Alcatraz Island
ⓘ
surface form:
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Florida Department of Corrections ⓘ
surface form:
Florida State Prison system
Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary ⓘ
surface form:
United States Penitentiary, Atlanta
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
bank robbery
ⓘ
car theft ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1978-12-21 ⓘ |
| escapeAttemptDate | 1962-06-11 ⓘ |
| escapeMethodPlanned |
climbing utility corridor to reach the roof of Alcatraz
ⓘ
use of improvised raft made from raincoats ⓘ |
| escapeOutcome | failed to leave his cell during the 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt ⓘ |
| escapePlanRole |
primary planner of the 1962 Alcatraz escape
ⓘ
responsible for enlarging ventilation ducts in his cell ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | West ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Allen ⓘ |
| incarcerationReason | armed robbery ⓘ |
| inPopularCulture | portrayed in the film "Escape from Alcatraz" ⓘ |
| knownFor | planning the 1962 escape attempt from Alcatraz ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Allen Clayton West ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
participation in constructing a raft and life vests for the 1962 escape
ⓘ
transfer to Alcatraz in the 1950s ⓘ |
| occupation | inmate ⓘ |
| participantIn | 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Gainesville, Florida, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Gainesville, Florida
|
| portrayedBy | Larry Hankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prisonerNumber | AZ-1335 ⓘ |
| providedInformationTo |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
ⓘ
surface form:
FBI
|
| reasonForFailureToEscape | could not remove the ventilator grill in time ⓘ |
| statementAfterEscape | described details of the escape plan to authorities ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FBI investigative reports on the 1962 Alcatraz escape
ⓘ
books about the Alcatraz escape ⓘ |
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: Allen West Description of subject: Allen West was an American inmate best known for helping plan the infamous 1962 escape attempt from Alcatraz prison.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frank Lee Morris