Umberto Nobile

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Umberto Nobile was an Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer best known for designing and piloting airships on pioneering polar expeditions in the 1920s.

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Label Occurrences
Umberto Nobile canonical 19

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arctic explorer
aeronautical engineer
airship designer
human
university professor
awardReceived Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Italy
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
Order of the Crown of Italy
countryOfCitizenship Italy
Kingdom of Italy
dateOfBirth 1885-01-21
dateOfDeath 1978-07-30
designed airship Italia
airship Norge
semi-rigid airships
educatedAt University of Naples Federico II
employer Aeronautica Militare
surface form: Italian Air Force

University of Naples Federico II
familyName Nobile
fieldOfWork aeronautical engineering
airship design
polar exploration
givenName Umberto
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned Italian
militaryRank general
movement early 20th-century polar exploration
name Umberto Nobile self-link
notableEvent survived the crash of the airship Italia in 1928
notableWork design of the airship Italia
design of the airship Norge
pioneering polar airship expeditions
occupation aeronautical engineer
airship pilot
explorer
university professor
participantIn 1926 North Pole airship flight
1928 Italia Arctic expedition
Italia expedition
Norge expedition
placeOfBirth Campania
Italy
Lauro
Province of Avellino
placeOfDeath Italy
Lazio
Rome
positionHeld member of the Italian Air Force General Staff
professor of aeronautical engineering
sexOrGender male

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- 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.
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Subject: Umberto Nobile
Description of subject: Umberto Nobile was an Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer best known for designing and piloting airships on pioneering polar expeditions in the 1920s.

Referenced by (19)

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

Roald Amundsen coExplorer Umberto Nobile
“Ice Woman” for her Arctic work ledSearchFor Umberto Nobile
subject surface form: Louise Arner Boyd
Umberto Nobile name Umberto Nobile self-link
airship Norge designer Umberto Nobile
airship Norge operatedBy Umberto Nobile
airship Norge expeditionCoLeader Umberto Nobile
airship Norge crewIncluded Umberto Nobile
airship Norge associatedWith Umberto Nobile
Norge expedition leader Umberto Nobile
Norge expedition operator Umberto Nobile
Norge expedition designedBy Umberto Nobile
Norge expedition relatedTo Umberto Nobile
Lincoln Ellsworth partnerInExpedition Umberto Nobile
Cimitero del Verano, Rome hasBurial Umberto Nobile
subject surface form: Cimitero del Verano
Norge Arctic flight 1926 coLeader Umberto Nobile