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Contextualization links time series, files, and diagram tags to assets (functional locations) in your industrial knowledge graph. The first part of contextualization is to ensure that each unique entity shares the same identifier in CDF, even if it has different IDs in the source systems. This step is mostly performed during the transformation stage when you shape and match incoming data and compare it with existing resources in your collection.

Start with foundations

About contextualization

Learn what must exist in the graph (assets, identities, and aliases) before matching or annotation can work.

Prepare aliases and match fields

Populate name and aliases on match targets before entity matching tokenizes strings and applies blocking.

Operate matching and annotation

Scope pipelines, configure incremental reruns, and preserve subject matter expert (SME)-confirmed links.

Understanding contextualization quality

Interpret in-scope coverage, orphans, and confidence before you tune matching models.

Match and connect entities

About entity matching

Learn how tokenization, blocking, and match scores pair sources with targets.

Match entities

Match Cognite Data Fusion resources to assets using pipelines or quick match in the UI.

Parse diagrams

About diagram parsing for data modeling

Detect tags, symbols, and connections to build a structured knowledge graph from engineering diagrams.

Parse diagrams

Extract and map assets and files from engineering diagrams in the CDF UI.

Create interactive diagrams

Review detected tags and build interactive P&IDs linked to your asset hierarchy.

Manage symbol libraries

Create and modify symbol libraries for diagram parsing workflows.

Parse documents

About document parsing

Learn how document parsing extracts key-value data into data model views (public preview).

Parsing documents

Run document parsing jobs on key-value PDFs in the CDF UI.

Deploy with Cognite Toolkit

CDF Entity Matching

Automate time series-to-asset matching with metadata enrichment, rules, and machine learning in production.

File Annotation

Annotate engineering files at scale with incremental processing and threshold-based approval.

Contextualization Quality Dashboard

Measure hierarchy, time series, file annotation, and related contextualization metrics.

Reference

Troubleshooting interactive diagrams

Resolve issues when interactive diagram parsing cannot resolve tags to assets.
Last modified on October 28, 2026