Benny Leonard

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Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxing champion of the 1910s and 1920s, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers in history.

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Label Occurrences
Benny Leonard canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
professional boxer
world lightweight boxing champion
alsoKnownAs Benjamin Leonard NERFINISHED
The Ghetto Wizard NERFINISHED
birthDate 1896-04-07
birthPlace Manhattan NERFINISHED
New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
burialPlace Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath heart attack
championshipTitle World Lightweight Title NERFINISHED
citizenship United States of America
deathDate 1947-04-18
diedWhile refereeing a boxing match
era 1910s
1920s
ethnicGroup Jewish American NERFINISHED
foughtOutOf New York City NERFINISHED
fullName Benjamin Leiner NERFINISHED
gender male
heldTitleFrom 1917
heldTitleTo 1925
inductedInto International Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
World Boxing Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
knownFor counterpunching ability
defensive skills
ring intelligence
managedBy Billy Gibson NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableOpponent Freddie Welsh NERFINISHED
Johnny Dundee NERFINISHED
Lew Tendler NERFINISHED
Richie Mitchell NERFINISHED
Rocky Kansas NERFINISHED
occupation boxer
boxing commentator
boxing referee
rankedAmong greatest boxers of all time
greatest lightweight boxers of all time
religion Judaism
residence New York City
sport boxing
stance orthodox stance
style scientific boxer
weightClass lightweight
yearsActive 1911–1932

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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: Benny Leonard
Description of subject: Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxing champion of the 1910s and 1920s, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers in history.

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