Esaki

E314661
Japanese physicist Japanese surname person physicist

Esaki is a Japanese surname most notably associated with physicist Leo Esaki, a Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling in semiconductors.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Esaki canonical 2

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese physicist ⓘ
Japanese surname ⓘ
person ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
awardReceived Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun ⓘ
JPS Nishina Memorial Prize ⓘ
surface form: Nishina Memorial Prize

Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ
Order of Culture ⓘ
surface form: Order of Culture (Japan)
countryOfCitizenship Japan ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Japan ⓘ
employer IBM ⓘ
University of Tsukuba NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName Esaki NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork physics ⓘ
semiconductor physics ⓘ
solid-state physics ⓘ
givenName Leo ⓘ
knownFor Esaki diode ⓘ
quantum tunneling in semiconductors ⓘ
Esaki diode ⓘ
surface form: tunnel diode
languageOfOrigin Japanese ⓘ
nationality Japanese ⓘ
nobelPrizeCategory Physics ⓘ
nobelPrizeReason for his experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors ⓘ
notableAchievement discovery of tunneling phenomena in semiconductors ⓘ
notableBearer Leo Esaki ⓘ
occupation research physicist ⓘ
university professor ⓘ
usedAs family name ⓘ
writingSystem Kanji ⓘ

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: Esaki
Description of subject: Esaki is a Japanese surname most notably associated with physicist Leo Esaki, a Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling in semiconductors.

Referenced by (2)

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

Leo Esaki → familyName → Esaki ⓘ
Reona → familyName → Esaki ⓘ
subject surface form: Reona Esaki