Eduard Suess

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Eduard Suess was a 19th-century Austrian geologist and paleontologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Earth and for proposing major concepts in historical geology and continental connections.

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Label Occurrences
Eduard Suess canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geologist
human
paleontologist
scientific author
university professor
awardReceived Copley Medal
Wollaston Medal NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Austria
Austrian Empire NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1831-08-20
dateOfDeath 1914-04-26
educatedAt University of Prague NERFINISHED
employer University of Vienna NERFINISHED
era 19th century
early 20th century
familyName Suess NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork geology
historical geology
paleontology
stratigraphy
tectonics
givenName Eduard NERFINISHED
hasPartInHisName Eduard NERFINISHED
Suess NERFINISHED
influenced development of plate tectonics theory
later concepts of continental drift
influencedBy Charles Lyell NERFINISHED
knownFor concept of Gondwana
concept of the Tethys Ocean
concept of the supercontinent Gondwanaland
ideas on continental connections
pioneering work in paleogeography
theory of the structure of the Earth
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Austrian Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
Royal Society
nativeLanguage German
notableWork Das Antlitz der Erde NERFINISHED
occupation geologist
paleontologist
university teacher
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London
placeOfDeath Vienna NERFINISHED
positionHeld member of the Austrian parliament
professor of geology at the University of Vienna
residence Vienna
sexOrGender male
workLocation Vienna

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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.
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Subject: Eduard Suess
Description of subject: Eduard Suess was a 19th-century Austrian geologist and paleontologist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure of the Earth and for proposing major concepts in historical geology and continental connections.

Referenced by (2)

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

Gondwana namedBy Eduard Suess
Tethys Ocean namedBy Eduard Suess