The Yankee Clipper

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The Yankee Clipper was the legendary New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio, famed for his graceful play and his record 56-game hitting streak.

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Label Occurrences
The Yankee Clipper canonical 5

Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Major League Baseball player
human
professional baseball player
AllStarSelections 13
bats right
burialPlace Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States
careerBattingAverage .325
careerHits 2214
careerHomeRuns 361
careerRBIs 1537
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-11-25
dateOfDeath 1999-03-08
finalMLBGame 1951-10-10
HallOfFameInductionYear 1955
hasNickname Joltin' Joe
The Yankee Clipper
heritage Italian-American
hittingStreakEndDate 1941-07-16
hittingStreakLength 56 games
hittingStreakStartDate 1941-05-15
honor Monument Park plaque at Yankee Stadium
jerseyNumber 5
jerseyNumberRetiredBy New York Yankees
knownFor 56-game hitting streak in 1941
graceful fielding
power hitting
league American League
marriageEndWithMarilynMonroe 1954-10-27
marriageStartWithMarilynMonroe 1954-01-14
memberOf National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
surface form: National Baseball Hall of Fame
mentionedInLyric "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
militaryService United States Army Air Forces
MLBDebut 1936-05-03
MVPAwards 3
notableRecord 56-game hitting streak
numberOfSeasonsWithTeam 13
placeOfBirth Martinez, California
surface form: Martinez, California, United States
placeOfDeath Hollywood, Florida, United States
playedFor New York Yankees
positionPlayed center fielder
servedDuring World War II
spouse Dorothy Arnold
Marilyn Monroe
subjectOfSong Mrs. Robinson
teamDebut New York Yankees
teamFinal New York Yankees
throws right
wasAllStarEverySeasonPlayed true
wonMVPInSeason 1939
1941
1947
WorldSeriesChampionSeason 1936
1937
1938
1939
1941
1947
1949
1950
1951
WorldSeriesTitles 9
yearsOfMilitaryService 1943–1945

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: The Yankee Clipper
Description of subject: The Yankee Clipper was the legendary New York Yankees center fielder Joe DiMaggio, famed for his graceful play and his record 56-game hitting streak.

Referenced by (5)

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

Joe DiMaggio nickname The Yankee Clipper
Joseph nickname The Yankee Clipper
subject surface form: Joe DiMaggio
The Yankee Clipper hasNickname The Yankee Clipper
subject surface form: Joe DiMaggio
Joltin' Joe alsoKnownAs The Yankee Clipper
Philippe De Lacy notableWork The Yankee Clipper