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.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T414697 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Koch Context triple: [Robert Koch, familyName, Koch]
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A.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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B.
Krafft
Krafft is a variant spelling of the surname Kraft, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
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C.
Klein
Klein is a common German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by many notable figures across politics, arts, science, and business.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Klecko
Klecko is the surname of former American football defensive lineman Joe Klecko, best known for his standout career with the New York Jets as part of the “New York Sack Exchange.”
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Koch Target entity description: 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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A.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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B.
Krafft
Krafft is a variant spelling of the surname Kraft, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
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C.
Klein
Klein is a common German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by many notable figures across politics, arts, science, and business.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Klecko
Klecko is the surname of former American football defensive lineman Joe Klecko, best known for his standout career with the New York Jets as part of the “New York Sack Exchange.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language surname
ⓘ
bacteriologist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ microbiologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
ⓘ
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ⓘ
linked to:
Order 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 (microbiologist) ⓘ
linked to:
Robert Koch
|
| influenced |
development of modern bacteriology
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germ theory of disease ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Koch's postulates
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identification of the causative agent of cholera ⓘ identification of the causative agent of tuberculosis ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| meaning | cook ⓘ |
| notableWork |
discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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discovery of Vibrio cholerae ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clausthal ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Baden-Baden ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Austria
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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 (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Koch