COWI
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COWI is an international consulting engineering group known for its expertise in large-scale infrastructure projects, including major bridges and tunnels.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COWI canonical | 5 |
| COWI Gulf | 1 |
| COWI India | 1 |
| COWI North America | 1 |
| COWI UK | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3220504 — 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: COWI Context triple: [Øresund Bridge, designedBy, COWI]
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A.
Ove Arup & Partners
Ove Arup & Partners is a globally renowned engineering and design consultancy known for its pioneering structural work on landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House.
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B.
Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy known for its work on major infrastructure projects worldwide.
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C.
CWI
CWI is the Netherlands' national research institute for mathematics and computer science, known for its pioneering contributions to theoretical and applied informatics.
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D.
Arup Associates
Arup Associates is a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering firm known for designing innovative, high-performance buildings and cultural venues.
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E.
Kirkegaard Associates
Kirkegaard Associates is an acoustical consulting firm renowned for designing the sound environments of prominent performance spaces and concert halls worldwide.
- 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: COWI Target entity description: COWI is an international consulting engineering group known for its expertise in large-scale infrastructure projects, including major bridges and tunnels.
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A.
Ove Arup & Partners
Ove Arup & Partners is a globally renowned engineering and design consultancy known for its pioneering structural work on landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House.
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B.
Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy known for its work on major infrastructure projects worldwide.
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C.
CWI
CWI is the Netherlands' national research institute for mathematics and computer science, known for its pioneering contributions to theoretical and applied informatics.
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D.
Arup Associates
Arup Associates is a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering firm known for designing innovative, high-performance buildings and cultural venues.
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E.
Kirkegaard Associates
Kirkegaard Associates is an acoustical consulting firm renowned for designing the sound environments of prominent performance spaces and concert halls worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineering consulting company
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multinational company ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Denmark ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bridge engineering
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buildings ⓘ civil engineering ⓘ marine and offshore engineering ⓘ structural engineering ⓘ sustainability consulting ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ tunnel engineering ⓘ urban development ⓘ water and environment ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
climate-resilient design
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sustainable infrastructure ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Christen Ostenfeld ⓘ |
| hasClient |
multilateral development banks
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private sector ⓘ public sector ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
COWI
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
COWI Gulf
COWI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
COWI India
COWI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
COWI North America
COWI self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
COWI UK
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| headquartersLocation | Lyngby, Denmark ⓘ |
| inception | 1930 ⓘ |
| industry |
energy consulting
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engineering consulting ⓘ environmental consulting ⓘ infrastructure consulting ⓘ transportation consulting ⓘ urban planning consulting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex marine structures
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large-scale infrastructure projects ⓘ long-span bridges ⓘ major bridge projects ⓘ major tunnel projects ⓘ multidisciplinary engineering services ⓘ |
| legalForm | aktieselskab ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| providesService |
construction supervision
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design and engineering ⓘ environmental impact assessment ⓘ feasibility studies ⓘ operation and maintenance advisory ⓘ project management ⓘ sustainability and climate advisory ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cowi.com ⓘ |
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: COWI Description of subject: COWI is an international consulting engineering group known for its expertise in large-scale infrastructure projects, including major bridges and tunnels.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Øresund Bridge
this entity surface form:
COWI North America
this entity surface form:
COWI UK
this entity surface form:
COWI Gulf
this entity surface form:
COWI India