Hal Lear

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Hal Lear was an American professional basketball player best known as a standout guard at Temple University in the 1950s and a member of the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame.

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Label Occurrences
Hal Lear canonical 1

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf basketball player
college basketball player
human
professional basketball player
awardReceived Most Outstanding Player of the 1956 NCAA Final Four
collegeTeam Temple Owls men's basketball NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1935-01-31
dateOfDeath 2016-06-25
draftedBy Philadelphia Warriors NERFINISHED
educatedAt Temple University NERFINISHED
familyName Lear NERFINISHED
givenName Harold
hallOfFame Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
Temple University Athletics Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
league Eastern Professional Basketball League NERFINISHED
National Basketball Association
memberOf Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame NERFINISHED
memberOfSportsTeam Temple Owls men's basketball NERFINISHED
notableAchievement Temple retired his jersey number
led Temple to the 1956 NCAA Final Four
notableWork standout guard at Temple University in the 1950s
occupation basketball player
participantIn NCAA men's basketball NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath White Plains, New York, United States NERFINISHED
playedFor Allentown Jets NERFINISHED
Easton Madisons NERFINISHED
Philadelphia Warriors NERFINISHED
Trenton Colonials NERFINISHED
positionPlayed guard
sexOrGender male
sport basketball

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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: Hal Lear
Description of subject: Hal Lear was an American professional basketball player best known as a standout guard at Temple University in the 1950s and a member of the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame.

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