Leonhard

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Leonhard is a masculine given name most famously borne by the prolific 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Leonhard canonical 11
Leonhard (Old High German personal name) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf given name
human
masculine given name
citizenship Switzerland
commonInCentury 18th century
commonInRegion German-speaking Europe
countryOfOrigin Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1707-04-15
dateOfDeath 1783-09-18
derivedFrom Old High German "hart" (brave, hardy)
Old High German "lewo" or "leo" (lion)
etymologicalRoot Leonhard self-linksurface differs
surface form: Leonhard (Old High German personal name)
familyName Leonhard Euler
surface form: Euler
fieldOfWork analysis
astronomy
engineering
graph theory
mathematics
mechanics
number theory
optics
physics
topology
gender masculine
givenName Leonhard self-linksurface differs
hasVariant Lenhart
Leonard
Leonardo da Vinci
surface form: Leonardo

Léonard
languageOfOrigin German
meaning brave lion
lion-strong
notableBearer Leonhard Euler
notableFor Euler’s polyhedron formula
surface form: Euler characteristic in topology

Euler's formula e^{iπ}+1=0
Euler’s formula for complex exponentials
surface form: Euler's identity

foundational work in many areas of mathematics
introducing much of modern mathematical notation
occupation mathematician
physicist
placeOfBirth Basel-Stadt
surface form: Basel
placeOfDeath St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
relatedName Leo
Leon
Leonid
usage Austrian German
German
Alemannic German
surface form: Swiss German
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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: Leonhard
Description of subject: Leonhard is a masculine given name most famously borne by the prolific 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler.

Referenced by (12)

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

Leonhard Euler givenName Leonhard
Leonard derivedFrom Leonhard
Leonard hasVariant Leonhard
Leonhard etymologicalRoot Leonhard self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Leonhard (Old High German personal name)
Leonhard givenName Leonhard self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Leonhard Euler
Lennard hasSpellingVariant Leonhard
Lennart relatedName Leonhard
Lenhart isVariantOf Leonhard
Leonhard Tietz givenName Leonhard
Léonard correspondsTo Leonhard