SHA
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SHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Maryland State Highway Administration, the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maryland’s state highway system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SHA canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6747766 — 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: SHA Context triple: [Maryland State Highway Administration, shortName, SHA]
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A.
SHA
SHA is the IATA airport code for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, a major domestic and regional aviation hub serving Shanghai, China.
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B.
SHA
SHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the School of Hospitality Administration, an academic institution focused on hospitality and related fields.
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C.
SHA
SHA is the vehicle registration code for the German district of Schwäbisch Hall in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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D.
SHA-2
SHA-2 is a family of cryptographic hash functions widely used for data integrity, digital signatures, and security protocols on the internet.
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E.
SHA-1
SHA-1 is a now-legacy 160-bit cryptographic hash function once widely used for data integrity and digital signatures but today considered insecure due to practical collision attacks.
- 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: SHA Target entity description: SHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Maryland State Highway Administration, the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maryland’s state highway system.
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A.
SHA
SHA is the IATA airport code for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, a major domestic and regional aviation hub serving Shanghai, China.
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B.
SHA
SHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the School of Hospitality Administration, an academic institution focused on hospitality and related fields.
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C.
SHA
SHA is the vehicle registration code for the German district of Schwäbisch Hall in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
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D.
SHA-2
SHA-2 is a family of cryptographic hash functions widely used for data integrity, digital signatures, and security protocols on the internet.
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E.
SHA-1
SHA-1 is a now-legacy 160-bit cryptographic hash function once widely used for data integrity and digital signatures but today considered insecure due to practical collision attacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
organizational abbreviation ⓘ state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SHA ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Maryland state highway system ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
congestion management
ⓘ
environmental stewardship in transportation ⓘ highway safety ⓘ infrastructure preservation ⓘ mobility ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | executive branch of Maryland ⓘ |
| hasAcronym | SHA ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://roads.maryland.gov ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Baltimore, Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
| jurisdiction |
State of Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Baltimore
ⓘ
Maryland ⓘ |
| maintains |
Maryland numbered routes
ⓘ
Maryland state highways ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland numbered routes
state highway signage in Maryland ⓘ state-owned bridges in Maryland ⓘ state-owned culverts in Maryland ⓘ |
| networkType | state highway system ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Maryland ⓘ |
| oversees |
highway construction projects in Maryland
ⓘ
highway maintenance contracts in Maryland ⓘ traffic operations centers for Maryland highways ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
State of Maryland
ⓘ
linked to:
Maryland
|
| parentOrganization | Maryland Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| partOf |
Maryland state government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Maryland
|
| refersTo | Maryland State Highway Administration ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
constructing Maryland state highways
ⓘ
designing Maryland state highways ⓘ highway safety programs on Maryland state highways ⓘ maintaining Maryland state highways ⓘ operating Maryland state highways ⓘ planning Maryland state highways ⓘ snow and ice removal on Maryland state highways ⓘ traffic engineering on Maryland state highways ⓘ |
| sector |
infrastructure
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| shortName | Maryland SHA ⓘ |
| standsFor | Maryland State Highway Administration ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Maryland Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| usesAbbreviation | SHA ⓘ |
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: SHA Description of subject: SHA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Maryland State Highway Administration, the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maryland’s state highway system.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.