Maine Department of Transportation
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maine Department of Transportation canonical | 339 |
| MaineDOT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59526 — 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: Maine Department of Transportation Context triple: [U.S. Route 2 in Maine, maintainedBy, Maine Department of Transportation]
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Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Massachusetts’ transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, and other mobility systems.
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Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Oregon’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit support, rail, and other infrastructure.
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C.
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Virginia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Virginia’s highway system and other transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Georgia Department of Transportation
The Georgia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Georgia’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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E.
Augusta, Maine
Augusta, Maine is a small city in the northeastern United States known as the capital of the state of Maine and situated along the Kennebec River.
- 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: Maine Department of Transportation Target entity description: 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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A.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Massachusetts’ transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, and other mobility systems.
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B.
Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Oregon’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit support, rail, and other infrastructure.
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C.
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Virginia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Virginia’s highway system and other transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Georgia Department of Transportation
The Georgia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Georgia’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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Augusta, Maine
Augusta, Maine is a small city in the northeastern United States known as the capital of the state of Maine and situated along the Kennebec River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Maine Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
MaineDOT
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| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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Federal Transit Administration ⓘ local governments in Maine ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| follows | laws of the State of Maine ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
State of Maine budget
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federal transportation funds ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Augusta, Maine ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maine
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maine ⓘ |
| mandate | to provide safe and efficient transportation systems in Maine ⓘ |
| oversees |
Maine State Ferry Service
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Maine state bridge network ⓘ Maine state highway system ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Maine ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Maine State Ferry Service
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Maine state bridges ⓘ Maine state highways ⓘ aviation system planning in Maine ⓘ bicycle and pedestrian transportation planning in Maine ⓘ construction of transportation infrastructure in Maine ⓘ maintenance of transportation infrastructure in Maine ⓘ planning of transportation infrastructure in Maine ⓘ public transportation policy in Maine ⓘ rail transportation planning in Maine ⓘ state ferry services in Maine ⓘ state-owned transportation facilities in Maine ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| serviceArea | entire State of Maine ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Executive branch of the Government of Maine ⓘ |
| topic |
bridge engineering
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freight transportation ⓘ highway engineering ⓘ multimodal transportation ⓘ public transit ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ |
| uses | state and federal transportation standards ⓘ |
| website | https://www.maine.gov/mdot ⓘ |
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: Maine Department of Transportation Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (340)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 395 (Bangor, Maine)
Maine Department of Transportation
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abbreviation
→
Maine Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
MaineDOT
subject surface form:
U.S. Route 1A (Maine)
subject surface form:
SR 100 (Maine)
subject surface form:
SR 27 (Maine)