Minnesota Department of Transportation
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Department of Transportation canonical | 24 |
| MnDOT | 1 |
| Office of Aeronautics (MnDOT) | 1 |
| Office of Traffic, Safety and Technology (MnDOT) | 1 |
| Office of Transit and Active Transportation (MnDOT) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844670 — 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: Minnesota Department of Transportation Context triple: [U.S. Route 75, maintainedBy, Minnesota Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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B.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
- 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: Minnesota Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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A.
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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B.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Minnesota Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
MnDOT
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| appliesToJurisdiction |
Minnesota
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surface form:
State of Minnesota
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| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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Metropolitan Council ⓘ
surface form:
Metropolitan Council (Minnesota)
city public works departments in Minnesota ⓘ county highway departments in Minnesota ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
civil engineers
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construction inspectors ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal transportation regulations of the United States ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Government of Minnesota
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surface form:
State of Minnesota government
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| hasAuthorityOver | state trunk highway right-of-way in Minnesota ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
District offices of MnDOT across Minnesota
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Minnesota Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office of Aeronautics (MnDOT)
Minnesota Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office of Traffic, Safety and Technology (MnDOT)
Minnesota Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office of Transit and Active Transportation (MnDOT)
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| headquartersLocation |
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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surface form:
St. Paul, Minnesota
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| oversees |
Minnesota state trunk highway system
ⓘ
interstate highways within Minnesota in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration ⓘ state aid to local road authorities in Minnesota ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Minnesota ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
aeronautics and aviation programs in Minnesota
ⓘ
bicycle and pedestrian transportation planning in Minnesota ⓘ construction of state highways in Minnesota ⓘ maintenance of state bridges in Minnesota ⓘ maintenance of state highways in Minnesota ⓘ planning Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ snow and ice control on state highways in Minnesota ⓘ state rail planning in Minnesota ⓘ statewide freight planning in Minnesota ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Minnesota ⓘ support for public transit systems in Minnesota ⓘ traffic engineering on state highways in Minnesota ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| subjectTo | Minnesota Statutes ⓘ |
| usesFundingSource |
federal transportation funds
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state fuel taxes ⓘ state vehicle registration fees ⓘ |
| website | https://www.dot.state.mn.us/ ⓘ |
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: Minnesota Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 35W (Minnesota)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
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abbreviation
→
Minnesota Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
MnDOT
Minnesota Department of Transportation
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hasDivision
→
Minnesota Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Office of Traffic, Safety and Technology (MnDOT)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
→
hasDivision
→
Minnesota Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Office of Aeronautics (MnDOT)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
→
hasDivision
→
Minnesota Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Office of Transit and Active Transportation (MnDOT)
subject surface form:
Interstate 35E (Minnesota)