Boris Jacobi

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human physicist

Boris Jacobi was a 19th-century German-Russian engineer and physicist known for pioneering work in electroplating and electric motors.

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Label	Occurrences
Boris Jacobi canonical	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ physicist ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Boris Semyonovich Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ Moritz Hermann Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ Moritz Hermann von Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ
areaOfInfluence	Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthDate	1801-09-10 ⓘ
birthPlace	Kingdom of Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ Potsdam NERFINISHED ⓘ
causeOfDeath	natural causes ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia Russian Empire ⓘ
deathDate	1874-03-10 ⓘ
deathPlace	Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Königsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	19th century ⓘ
ethnicOrigin	German ⓘ
familyName	Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	electrical engineering ⓘ electrochemistry ⓘ physics ⓘ
givenName	Boris NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasOccupation	engineer ⓘ inventor ⓘ physicist ⓘ
knownFor	applications of electricity to telegraphy ⓘ development of early electric motors ⓘ pioneering work in electroplating ⓘ work on galvanoplastics ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	German ⓘ Russian ⓘ
memberOf	Imperial Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableAchievement	demonstrated an electric boat on the Neva River in the 1830s ⓘ developed methods for large-scale metal electroforming ⓘ
notableInvention	early direct-current electric motor ⓘ electric boat powered by an electric motor ⓘ practical electroplating process ⓘ
positionHeld	academician of the Imperial Academy of Sciences ⓘ
residence	St. Petersburg ⓘ surface form: Saint Petersburg
sibling	Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ
workLocation	Saint Petersburg NERFINISHED ⓘ

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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: Boris Jacobi
Description of subject: Boris Jacobi was a 19th-century German-Russian engineer and physicist known for pioneering work in electroplating and electric motors.

Referenced by (1)

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

Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg → employerOf → Boris Jacobi ⓘ