Eddie Plank

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Eddie Plank was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century, renowned for his exceptional control and longevity on the mound.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eddie Plank canonical 9
Edward Stewart Plank 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf baseball player
human
pitcher
bats left-handed
brokeRecord first left-handed pitcher to win over 300 games in Major League Baseball
burialPlace Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
careerCompleteGames 410
careerEarnedRunAverage 2.35
careerInningsPitched 4245.2
careerLosses 194
careerShutouts 69
careerStrikeouts 2246
careerWins 326
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1875-08-31
dateOfDeath 1926-02-24
era Dead-ball era
finalMLBGameDate 1917-09-28
finalMLBTeam St. Louis Browns
fullName Eddie Plank self-linksurface differs
surface form: Edward Stewart Plank
givenName Edward
hallOfFame National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
hallOfFameInductionYear 1946
knownFor durability and longevity on the mound
exceptional control as a pitcher
league American League
Federal League
memberOfSportsTeam Philadelphia Athletics
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis Terriers
MLBDebutDate 1901-05-13
MLBDebutTeam Philadelphia Athletics
nickname Eddie
Gettysburg Eddie
notableGameType World Series appearances with Philadelphia Athletics
placeOfBirth Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
playedForFranchise Philadelphia Athletics
surface form: Philadelphia Athletics (1901–1914)

St. Louis Browns
surface form: St. Louis Browns (1916–1917)

St. Louis Terriers
surface form: St. Louis Terriers (1915)
positionPlayed pitcher
sexOrGender male
sport baseball
teamManagedBy Connie Mack
throws left-handed
worldSeriesChampion 1910
1911
1913

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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: Eddie Plank
Description of subject: Eddie Plank was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 20th century, renowned for his exceptional control and longevity on the mound.

Referenced by (10)

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

1905 World Series notablePlayer Eddie Plank
Eddie Plank fullName Eddie Plank self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Edward Stewart Plank
1911 World Series notablePitcher Eddie Plank
Rube Waddell notableTeammate Eddie Plank
Gettysburg Eddie alsoKnownAs Eddie Plank
1910 World Series notablePitcher Eddie Plank