John Wood Group PLC
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John Wood Group PLC is a multinational energy services and engineering company headquartered in Scotland, known for providing consulting, operations, and project management services to the oil, gas, and broader energy industries.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Wood Group PLC canonical | 2 |
| John Wood Group plc | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5655261 — 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: John Wood Group PLC Context triple: [Sir Ian Wood, employer, John Wood Group PLC]
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A.
Holmes Group
Holmes Group is a construction and home-improvement company founded by Canadian contractor and television personality Mike Holmes, known for promoting high-quality building standards and renovations.
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B.
Holly Group
Holly Group is a cluster of ancestral Puebloan ruins and masonry structures located within Hovenweep National Monument in the U.S. Southwest.
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C.
Hylton Group
Hylton Group is a real estate development company known for planning and building large suburban communities such as Dale City in Virginia.
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D.
WB Group
WB Group is a leading Polish defense technology company specializing in advanced military communications, unmanned systems, and battlefield management solutions.
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E.
Caddick Group
Caddick Group is a UK-based property development and construction company known for its significant investments in sports and leisure infrastructure, including ownership of the Leeds Rhinos rugby league club.
- 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: John Wood Group PLC Target entity description: John Wood Group PLC is a multinational energy services and engineering company headquartered in Scotland, known for providing consulting, operations, and project management services to the oil, gas, and broader energy industries.
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A.
Holmes Group
Holmes Group is a construction and home-improvement company founded by Canadian contractor and television personality Mike Holmes, known for promoting high-quality building standards and renovations.
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B.
Holly Group
Holly Group is a cluster of ancestral Puebloan ruins and masonry structures located within Hovenweep National Monument in the U.S. Southwest.
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C.
Hylton Group
Hylton Group is a real estate development company known for planning and building large suburban communities such as Dale City in Virginia.
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D.
WB Group
WB Group is a leading Polish defense technology company specializing in advanced military communications, unmanned systems, and battlefield management solutions.
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E.
Caddick Group
Caddick Group is a UK-based property development and construction company known for its significant investments in sports and leisure infrastructure, including ownership of the Leeds Rhinos rugby league club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
energy services company
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engineering company ⓘ public limited company ⓘ |
| acquired | Amec Foster Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| basedInCity | Aberdeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | business-to-business ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focus |
decarbonisation consulting
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energy transition services ⓘ |
| formerName | Wood Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ian Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Consulting
ⓘ
Operations ⓘ Projects ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Amec Foster Wheeler
NERFINISHED
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Wood Group Kenny NERFINISHED ⓘ Wood Group Mustang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Aberdeen
NERFINISHED
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Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| industry |
consulting
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energy ⓘ engineering services ⓘ oil and gas ⓘ project management ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | PLC ⓘ |
| listedInIndex | FTSE 250 Index NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | 10000-50000 ⓘ |
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
downstream oil and gas
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midstream oil and gas ⓘ petrochemicals ⓘ power generation ⓘ renewable energy ⓘ upstream oil and gas ⓘ |
| serviceType |
asset integrity management
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digital and technology services ⓘ engineering consulting ⓘ environmental consulting ⓘ operations support ⓘ project management services ⓘ technical consulting ⓘ |
| stockExchange | London Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WG. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.woodplc.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: John Wood Group PLC Description of subject: John Wood Group PLC is a multinational energy services and engineering company headquartered in Scotland, known for providing consulting, operations, and project management services to the oil, gas, and broader energy industries.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Wood Group plc