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.

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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

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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: 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.

Frank Morris plannedWith Allen West
realPerson Frank Lee Morris coConspirator Allen West
subject surface form: Frank Lee Morris