The Greatest Game Ever Played
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The Greatest Game Ever Played is the legendary triple-overtime showdown between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns in the 1976 NBA Finals, widely regarded as one of the most dramatic and exciting games in basketball history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Greatest Game Ever Played canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2454515 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Greatest Game Ever Played Context triple: [1976 NBA Finals, game5Nickname, The Greatest Game Ever Played]
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A.
The Hustler
The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film about an ambitious pool hustler, starring Paul Newman and widely regarded as a classic of sports and character-driven cinema.
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B.
The Bambino
The Bambino is the legendary nickname of Babe Ruth, one of baseball’s greatest sluggers and most iconic sports figures.
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C.
The Cincinnati Kid
The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film starring Steve McQueen as a young poker player determined to prove himself against a legendary card sharp in high-stakes New Orleans games.
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D.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Greatest Game Ever Played Target entity description: The Greatest Game Ever Played is the legendary triple-overtime showdown between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns in the 1976 NBA Finals, widely regarded as one of the most dramatic and exciting games in basketball history.
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A.
The Hustler
The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film about an ambitious pool hustler, starring Paul Newman and widely regarded as a classic of sports and character-driven cinema.
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B.
The Bambino
The Bambino is the legendary nickname of Babe Ruth, one of baseball’s greatest sluggers and most iconic sports figures.
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C.
The Cincinnati Kid
The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film starring Steve McQueen as a young poker player determined to prove himself against a legendary card sharp in high-stakes New Orleans games.
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D.
The Name of the Game
"The Name of the Game" is a 1977 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its melodic complexity and introspective lyrics.
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E.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NBA Finals game
ⓘ
basketball game ⓘ |
| attendance | 15320 ⓘ |
| awayTeam | Phoenix Suns ⓘ |
| broadcaster | CBS ⓘ |
| city |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | June 4, 1976 ⓘ |
| decade | 1970s ⓘ |
| finalScore | Boston Celtics 128 – Phoenix Suns 126 ⓘ |
| gameNumberInSeries | Game 5 ⓘ |
| homeTeam | Boston Celtics ⓘ |
| impact |
cemented 1976 NBA Finals as a classic championship series
ⓘ
enhanced reputation of Boston Garden as a historic NBA venue ⓘ |
| isRegardedAs |
one of the greatest games in NBA history
ⓘ
one of the most dramatic games in basketball history ⓘ |
| league |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
surface form:
NBA
National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| loserCoach | John MacLeod ⓘ |
| losingTeam | Phoenix Suns ⓘ |
| notablePlay |
Garfield Heard’s buzzer-beating shot to force third overtime
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John Havlicek’s apparent game-winning shot at end of second overtime ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Dave Cowens
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Garfield Heard ⓘ Jo Jo White ⓘ John Havlicek ⓘ Paul Westphal ⓘ |
| notableStatistic |
Jo Jo White
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surface form:
Jo Jo White played 60 minutes
multiple lead changes in final minutes of regulation and overtimes ⓘ |
| overtimeCount | 3 ⓘ |
| overtimeType | triple overtime ⓘ |
| ruleContext | no three-point line ⓘ |
| season | 1975–76 NBA season ⓘ |
| series | 1976 NBA Finals ⓘ |
| seriesFormat | best-of-seven ⓘ |
| seriesResultAfterGame | Boston Celtics led series 3–2 ⓘ |
| sport | basketball ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| team |
Boston Celtics
ⓘ
Phoenix Suns ⓘ |
| title | The Greatest Game Ever Played ⓘ |
| venue | Boston Garden ⓘ |
| winnerCoach | Tom Heinsohn ⓘ |
| winningTeam | Boston Celtics ⓘ |
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 Greatest Game Ever Played Description of subject: The Greatest Game Ever Played is the legendary triple-overtime showdown between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns in the 1976 NBA Finals, widely regarded as one of the most dramatic and exciting games in basketball history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.