Colorado Department of Transportation
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The Colorado Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colorado Department of Transportation canonical | 30 |
| Colorado traveler information systems | 1 |
| Division of Highway Maintenance (CDOT) | 1 |
| Division of Transportation Development (CDOT) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2356010 — 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: Colorado Department of Transportation Context triple: [U.S. Route 50 Business (Pueblo, Colorado), maintainedBy, Colorado Department of Transportation]
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South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’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.
Kansas Department of Transportation
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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D.
Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Mexico’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: Colorado Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Colorado Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’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.
Kansas Department of Transportation
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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D.
Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Mexico’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CDOT ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Colorado
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surface form:
State of Colorado
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| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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local governments in Colorado ⓘ regional transportation authorities in Colorado ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
civil engineers
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maintenance workers ⓘ snowplow operators ⓘ traffic operations specialists ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
freight movement in Colorado
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highway safety in Colorado ⓘ mobility improvements in Colorado ⓘ multimodal transportation options in Colorado ⓘ transportation infrastructure resilience in Colorado ⓘ |
| fullName | Colorado Department of Transportation self-link ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Division of Aeronautics (CDOT)
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Colorado Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Highway Maintenance (CDOT)
Colorado Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Transportation Development (CDOT)
Engineering and Construction divisions (CDOT) ⓘ CDOT ⓘ
surface form:
Office of Communications (CDOT)
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| headquartersLocation | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| operates |
Colorado road condition information services
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Colorado Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado traveler information systems
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| oversees |
Colorado State Highway system
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surface form:
Colorado state highway system
Interstate highways within Colorado in cooperation with federal agencies ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Colorado ⓘ |
| partOf | Executive branch of the State of Colorado ⓘ |
| regulates | access to state highways in Colorado ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
bridge maintenance on state highways in Colorado
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construction of state highways in Colorado ⓘ maintenance of state highways in Colorado ⓘ multimodal transportation planning in Colorado ⓘ operation of state highway system in Colorado ⓘ planning of state transportation infrastructure in Colorado ⓘ public information on road conditions in Colorado ⓘ snow and ice removal on state highways in Colorado ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Colorado ⓘ traffic management on state highways in Colorado ⓘ transportation safety programs in Colorado ⓘ |
| sector |
infrastructure
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transportation ⓘ |
| shortName | CDOT ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Colorado state law
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federal transportation regulations ⓘ |
| uses | state and federal transportation funding ⓘ |
| website | https://www.codot.gov ⓘ |
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: Colorado Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Colorado Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 50 Business (Pueblo, Colorado)
Colorado Department of Transportation
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fullName
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Colorado Department of Transportation
self-link
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Colorado Department of Transportation
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hasDivision
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Colorado Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Division of Transportation Development (CDOT)
Colorado Department of Transportation
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hasDivision
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Colorado Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Division of Highway Maintenance (CDOT)
Colorado Department of Transportation
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operates
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Colorado Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Colorado traveler information systems
subject surface form:
US 50 Bus. (Pueblo, Colorado)
Colorado Scenic and Historic Byways system
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administeredBy
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Colorado Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
State Highway 66 (Colorado)