Robert Koch
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Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Koch canonical | 19 |
| Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch | 1 |
| Robert Koch (microbiologist) | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bacteriologist
ⓘ
human ⓘ microbiologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
ⓘ
Order of the Red Eagle ⓘ Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ
surface form:
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
|
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Empire
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1843-12-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1910-05-27 ⓘ |
| developed |
Koch's postulates
ⓘ
methods for cultivating bacteria on solid media ⓘ |
| discovered |
Bacillus anthracis
ⓘ
Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⓘ Vibrio cholerae ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Göttingen ⓘ |
| employer |
Reich Health Office
ⓘ
surface form:
Imperial Health Office of Germany
Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ
surface form:
University of Berlin
|
| familyName | Koch ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bacteriology
ⓘ
infectious disease ⓘ microbiology ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalName |
Robert Koch
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch
|
| influencedBy | Louis Pasteur ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Koch's postulates
ⓘ
founding modern bacteriology ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
ⓘ
surface form:
Physiology or Medicine
|
| NobelPrizeYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
discovery of Bacillus anthracis
ⓘ
discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⓘ discovery of Vibrio cholerae ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
ⓘ
scientist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Clausthal
ⓘ
Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Hanover
|
| placeOfDeath |
Baden-Baden
ⓘ
Grand Duchy of Baden ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin
ⓘ
Professor of Hygiene at the University of Berlin ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
anthrax
ⓘ
cholera ⓘ tuberculosis ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
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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: Robert Koch Description of subject: Robert Koch was a pioneering German physician and microbiologist who identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, laying the foundations of modern bacteriology.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch
subject surface form:
Emil Adolf von Behring
subject surface form:
Emil Adolf von Behring
this entity surface form:
Robert Koch (microbiologist)