United States Department of Transportation
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The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14458 — 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: United States Department of Transportation Context triple: [Eastern Time Zone, governingBodyForDST, United States Department of Transportation]
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A.
United States Department of the Treasury
The United States Department of the Treasury is the federal executive department responsible for managing national finances, including collecting taxes, producing currency, and formulating economic and fiscal policy.
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B.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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C.
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.
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D.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
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E.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the federal agency responsible for overseeing and ensuring the safe use of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States.
- 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: United States Department of Transportation Target entity description: The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
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A.
United States Department of the Treasury
The United States Department of the Treasury is the federal executive department responsible for managing national finances, including collecting taxes, producing currency, and formulating economic and fiscal policy.
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B.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that funds and promotes fundamental research and education in all non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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C.
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.
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D.
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned U.S. corporation created during the New Deal to provide regional economic development, flood control, and electricity generation in the Tennessee Valley.
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E.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the federal agency responsible for overseeing and ensuring the safe use of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: United States Department of Transportation Description of subject: The United States Department of Transportation is a federal executive department responsible for national transportation policy, safety regulation, and infrastructure across modes such as highways, aviation, rail, and transit.
Referenced by (219)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States Department of Transportation
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abbreviation
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United States Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
USDOT
United States Department of Transportation
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oversees
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United States Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
this entity surface form:
Department of Transportation
Small Business Innovation Research program
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participatingAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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this entity surface form:
Department of Transportation
Union Station Redevelopment Corporation
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collaboratesWith
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United States Department of Transportation
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this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
subject surface form:
United States Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
U.S. DOT
Department of Transportation Act
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createdCabinetDepartment
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United States Department of Transportation
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Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
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partOf
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United States Department of Transportation
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Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
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parentAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
Office of Inspector General (U.S. Department of Transportation)
subject surface form:
Office of Inspector General (U.S. Department of Transportation)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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parentAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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parentAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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parentAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
Federal Railroad Administration
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Maryland Department of Transportation
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collaboratesWith
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United States Department of Transportation
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Transportation Security Administration
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initialParentAgency
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United States Department of Transportation
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Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center
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governingBody
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United States Department of Transportation
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American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
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coordinatesWith
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United States Department of Transportation
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this entity surface form:
Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
National Transportation Safety Board
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independenceFrom
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United States Department of Transportation
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