Met Lab

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Manhattan Project site World War II research group nuclear research laboratory

Met Lab was the secret World War II research group at the University of Chicago that played a central role in developing nuclear reactor technology for the Manhattan Project.

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Label	Occurrences
Met Lab canonical	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Manhattan Project site ⓘ World War II research group ⓘ nuclear research laboratory ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory ⓘ Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory ⓘ surface form: Metallurgical Laboratory
contributedTo	design of plutonium production reactors at Hanford Site ⓘ development of chemical separation processes for plutonium ⓘ development of reactor control methods ⓘ development of reactor shielding and safety procedures ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dateOfEvent	1942-12-02 ⓘ
director	Arthur H. Compton ⓘ
dissolvedInto	Argonne National Laboratory ⓘ Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory ⓘ surface form: University of Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies
employed	Enrico Fermi ⓘ Eugene Wigner ⓘ George Weil ⓘ Glenn T. Seaborg ⓘ Harold Urey ⓘ Herbert L. Anderson ⓘ James Franck ⓘ John Archibald Wheeler ⓘ surface form: John A. Wheeler Joseph J. Katz ⓘ Leo Szilard ⓘ Leona Woods ⓘ Louis Slotin ⓘ Maria Goeppert Mayer ⓘ Nathan Sugarman ⓘ Robert F. Christy ⓘ Samuel Allison ⓘ Walter Zinn ⓘ Willard F. Libby ⓘ
endTime	1946 ⓘ
era	World War II ⓘ
fieldOfWork	health physics ⓘ metallurgy ⓘ nuclear engineering ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ radiation biology ⓘ
foundedBy	Arthur H. Compton ⓘ
hasEthicalDebate	use of atomic bombs against Japan ⓘ
hasResearchFocus	neutron physics ⓘ nuclear reactor design ⓘ plutonium production ⓘ radiation safety ⓘ radioactive materials handling ⓘ
legacy	predecessor of Argonne National Laboratory ⓘ predecessor of the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute ⓘ
locatedIn	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ surface form: Chicago, Illinois Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States University of Chicago ⓘ
locationOfEvent	Stagg Field, University of Chicago ⓘ
notableAchievement	construction of Chicago Pile-1, the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction ⓘ
notableWork	Chicago Pile-1 ⓘ
partOf	Manhattan Project ⓘ
startTime	1942 ⓘ
subjectOf	Franck Report ⓘ
supervisedBy	Office of Scientific Research and Development ⓘ Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ surface form: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Engineer District

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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: Met Lab
Description of subject: Met Lab was the secret World War II research group at the University of Chicago that played a central role in developing nuclear reactor technology for the Manhattan Project.

Referenced by (1)

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

Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory → codeName → Met Lab ⓘ