Koch

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Koch is a German surname most famously associated with Robert Koch, the pioneering microbiologist who discovered the causative agents of tuberculosis and cholera.

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Label Occurrences
Koch canonical 21

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German-language surname
bacteriologist
family name
human
microbiologist
physician
awardReceived Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
surface form: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
dateOfBirth 1843-12-11
dateOfDeath 1910-05-27
derivedFromOccupation cook
educatedAt University of Göttingen
fieldOfWork infectious diseases
microbiology
hasNotableBearer Robert Koch
Robert Koch
surface form: Robert Koch (microbiologist)
influenced development of modern bacteriology
germ theory of disease
knownFor Koch's postulates
identification of the causative agent of cholera
identification of the causative agent of tuberculosis
languageOfOrigin German
meaning cook
notableWork discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
discovery of Vibrio cholerae
placeOfBirth Clausthal
placeOfDeath Baden-Baden
usedInCountry Austria
Germany
Switzerland

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: Koch
Description of subject: Koch is a German surname most famously associated with Robert Koch, the pioneering microbiologist who discovered the causative agents of tuberculosis and cholera.

Referenced by (21)

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