Ove Arup

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businessperson civil engineer human philosopher of design structural engineer

Ove Arup was a pioneering Anglo-Danish engineer and philosopher of design best known for founding the global engineering firm Arup and for his influential work on landmark modernist structures such as the Sydney Opera House.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Ove Arup canonical 3
Ove Arup (collaborator) 1
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf businessperson ⓘ
civil engineer ⓘ
human ⓘ
philosopher of design ⓘ
structural engineer ⓘ
awardReceived Knight Bachelor ⓘ
citizenship Denmark ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
countryOfBirth United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1895-04-16 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1988-02-05 ⓘ
educatedAt Technical University of Denmark ⓘ
University of Copenhagen ⓘ
ethnicOrigin Danish ⓘ
familyName Ove Arup & Partners ⓘ
surface form: Arup
fieldOfWork architecture ⓘ
civil engineering ⓘ
design philosophy ⓘ
structural engineering ⓘ
founded Ove Arup & Partners ⓘ
surface form: Arup Group Limited
fullName Ove Arup self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sir Ove Nyquist Arup
givenName Hjalmar ⓘ
surface form: Ove
hasPhilosophy total design approach integrating architecture and engineering ⓘ
honorificPrefix Sir ⓘ
influenced Arup Group design culture ⓘ
modern structural engineering practice ⓘ
knownFor founding the engineering firm Arup ⓘ
influential design philosophy in engineering practice ⓘ
pioneering integrated design and engineering ⓘ
work on the Sydney Opera House ⓘ
languageSpoken Danish ⓘ
English ⓘ
memberOf Institution of Civil Engineers ⓘ
Institution of Structural Engineers ⓘ
militaryService World War I ⓘ
nationality British ⓘ
Danish ⓘ
notableWork development of integrated multi-disciplinary design practice at Arup ⓘ
structural engineering for the Sydney Opera House ⓘ
work on early reinforced concrete structures in the UK ⓘ
occupation business executive ⓘ
consulting engineer ⓘ
engineer ⓘ
placeOfBirth Newcastle upon Tyne ⓘ
surface form: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
placeOfDeath London, England ⓘ
residence London, England ⓘ
workLocation London, England ⓘ
surface form: London

United Kingdom ⓘ

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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: Ove Arup
Description of subject: Ove Arup was a pioneering Anglo-Danish engineer and philosopher of design best known for founding the global engineering firm Arup and for his influential work on landmark modernist structures such as the Sydney Opera House.

Referenced by (5)

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

Ove Arup & Partners → foundedBy → Ove Arup ⓘ
Royal Gold Medal → notableRecipient → Ove Arup ⓘ
Ove Arup → fullName → Ove Arup self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sir Ove Nyquist Arup
RIBA Gold Medal → hasNotableRecipient → Ove Arup ⓘ
Freeman Fox & Partners → hasKeyPerson → Ove Arup ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ove Arup (collaborator)