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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Umberto Nobile canonical | 19 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arctic explorer
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aeronautical engineer ⓘ airship designer ⓘ human ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Italy
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Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ⓘ Order of the Crown of Italy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Italy
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Kingdom of Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1885-01-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-07-30 ⓘ |
| designed |
airship Italia
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airship Norge ⓘ semi-rigid airships ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Naples Federico II ⓘ |
| employer |
Aeronautica Militare
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surface form:
Italian Air Force
University of Naples Federico II ⓘ |
| familyName | Nobile ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aeronautical engineering
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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
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design of the airship Norge ⓘ pioneering polar airship expeditions ⓘ |
| occupation |
aeronautical engineer
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airship pilot ⓘ explorer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1926 North Pole airship flight
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1928 Italia Arctic expedition ⓘ Italia expedition ⓘ Norge expedition ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Campania
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Italy ⓘ Lauro ⓘ Province of Avellino ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Italy
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Lazio ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the Italian Air Force General Staff
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professor of aeronautical engineering ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: 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.
subject surface form:
Louise Arner Boyd
subject surface form:
Cimitero del Verano