MDOT
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MDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MDOT canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5886749 — 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: MDOT Context triple: [Mississippi Department of Transportation, abbreviation, MDOT]
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A.
Michigan Department of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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B.
IDOT
IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation systems, including highways and public transit.
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C.
SecDOT
SecDOT is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Secretary of Transportation, the Cabinet-level official who oversees federal transportation policy and programs.
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D.
Arizona Department of Transportation
The Arizona Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arizona’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
- 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: MDOT Target entity description: MDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
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A.
Michigan Department of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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B.
IDOT
IDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation systems, including highways and public transit.
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C.
SecDOT
SecDOT is the commonly used abbreviation for the United States Secretary of Transportation, the Cabinet-level official who oversees federal transportation policy and programs.
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D.
Arizona Department of Transportation
The Arizona Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arizona’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mississippi state agency
ⓘ
government agency ⓘ state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MDOT ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
local governments in Mississippi ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| focusArea |
highways
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transportation infrastructure ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ |
| fullName | Mississippi Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
federal transportation funds
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state funds ⓘ |
| goal |
improve mobility in Mississippi
ⓘ
maintain transportation infrastructure in Mississippi ⓘ provide safe transportation in Mississippi ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Mississippi ⓘ |
| location | Mississippi ⓘ |
| parentGovernment | Government of Mississippi ⓘ |
| regulatoryScope | statewide transportation in Mississippi ⓘ |
| responsibility |
Mississippi state highways
ⓘ
linked to:
Mississippi State Highway System
building Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ planning Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ state roads in Mississippi ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| systemManaged | highway system of Mississippi ⓘ |
| typeOfInfrastructure | surface transportation ⓘ |
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: MDOT Description of subject: MDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.