Boskalis
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Boskalis is a Dutch dredging and marine services company known for large-scale land reclamation, coastal engineering, and offshore infrastructure projects.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boskalis canonical | 1 |
| Royal Boskalis Westminster | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6153995 — 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: Boskalis Context triple: [Marker Wadden, mainContractor, Boskalis]
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A.
Drydocks World
Drydocks World is a Dubai-based maritime services company known for ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction projects, particularly in the Middle East.
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B.
Transocean
Transocean is a major offshore drilling contractor that owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon rig involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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C.
Morrison-Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture
Morrison-Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture is a civil engineering consortium known for undertaking major infrastructure projects, including the construction of iconic structures in the United Kingdom.
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D.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
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E.
Ship & Offshore Structure Company
Ship & Offshore Structure Company is a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries that specializes in the design and construction of ships and offshore engineering structures.
- 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: Boskalis Target entity description: Boskalis is a Dutch dredging and marine services company known for large-scale land reclamation, coastal engineering, and offshore infrastructure projects.
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A.
Drydocks World
Drydocks World is a Dubai-based maritime services company known for ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction projects, particularly in the Middle East.
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B.
Transocean
Transocean is a major offshore drilling contractor that owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon rig involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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C.
Morrison-Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture
Morrison-Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture is a civil engineering consortium known for undertaking major infrastructure projects, including the construction of iconic structures in the United Kingdom.
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D.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
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E.
Ship & Offshore Structure Company
Ship & Offshore Structure Company is a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries that specializes in the design and construction of ships and offshore engineering structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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dredging company ⓘ marine services company ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Boskalis Westminster N.V. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Dockwise
NERFINISHED
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SMIT Salvage NERFINISHED ⓘ VBMS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.boskalis.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Papendrecht, Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
dredging
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marine services ⓘ maritime infrastructure ⓘ offshore energy services ⓘ |
| legalForm | public limited company ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex dredging operations worldwide
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large-scale land reclamation projects ⓘ marine infrastructure megaprojects ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
coastal defense
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offshore oil and gas ⓘ offshore wind ⓘ port development ⓘ |
| operatesVessels |
cutter suction dredgers
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heavy transport vessels ⓘ offshore support vessels ⓘ trailing suction hopper dredgers ⓘ |
| providesService |
dredging
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heavy lift transport ⓘ marine construction ⓘ offshore installation ⓘ towage and salvage ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
channel deepening
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coastal engineering ⓘ heavy marine transport ⓘ land reclamation ⓘ marine salvage ⓘ offshore infrastructure projects ⓘ offshore wind farm installation support ⓘ port construction ⓘ shoreline protection ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | Euronext Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | BOKA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Boskalis Description of subject: Boskalis is a Dutch dredging and marine services company known for large-scale land reclamation, coastal engineering, and offshore infrastructure projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Royal Boskalis Westminster