Kansas Department of Transportation
E101648
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kansas Department of Transportation canonical | 15 |
| KDOT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844667 — 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: Kansas Department of Transportation Context triple: [U.S. Route 75, maintainedBy, Kansas Department of Transportation]
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A.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
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E.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Kentucky’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- 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: Kansas Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
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E.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Kentucky’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Kansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KDOT
|
| appliesToJurisdiction | Kansas ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
local governments in Kansas ⓘ regional planning organizations in Kansas ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
civil engineers
ⓘ
maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
state funds of Kansas ⓘ |
| goal |
improve transportation safety in Kansas
ⓘ
maintain and preserve Kansas transportation infrastructure ⓘ support economic development through transportation in Kansas ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver | state highway right-of-way in Kansas ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.ksdot.gov/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Topeka, Kansas ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Kansas
ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ
surface form:
State of Kansas
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Kansas ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Government of Kansas
ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ
surface form:
State of Kansas
|
| responsibleFor |
Kansas state highway system
ⓘ
construction of state transportation facilities in Kansas ⓘ highway safety programs in Kansas ⓘ maintenance of state transportation facilities in Kansas ⓘ planning of transportation systems in Kansas ⓘ public information on Kansas transportation projects ⓘ state highways in Kansas ⓘ state transportation planning in Kansas ⓘ traffic engineering on Kansas state highways ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Kansas ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Government of Kansas
ⓘ
Government of Kansas ⓘ
surface form:
Kansas state government
|
| typeOfTransportManaged |
highway transport
ⓘ
road transport ⓘ |
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: Kansas Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Kansas Department of Transportation
→
abbreviation
→
Kansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
KDOT