Delaware Department of Transportation
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The Delaware Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Delaware’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delaware Department of Transportation canonical | 41 |
| DelDOT | 1 |
| Delaware highway operations division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7076503 — 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: Delaware Department of Transportation Context triple: [Delaware Route 273, maintainedBy, Delaware Department of Transportation]
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A.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
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B.
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Rhode Island’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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C.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
Connecticut Department of Transportation
The Connecticut Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, developing, and managing Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation systems.
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E.
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.
- 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: Delaware Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Delaware Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Delaware’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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A.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
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B.
Rhode Island Department of Transportation
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Rhode Island’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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C.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
Connecticut Department of Transportation
The Connecticut Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, developing, and managing Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation systems.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
State of Delaware
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linked to:
Delaware
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employerOf |
administrative staff
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
highway engineering
ⓘ
infrastructure management ⓘ public transit ⓘ traffic engineering ⓘ transportation ⓘ urban and regional planning ⓘ |
| hasPart |
DART First State bus system
ⓘ
linked to:
DART First State bus services
Delaware highway operations division ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware Department of Transportation
Delaware maintenance and operations units ⓘ Delaware planning division ⓘ Delaware transit operations division ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware Transit Corporation
|
| headquartersLocation | Dover, Delaware ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Delaware ⓘ |
| oversees | DART First State ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
State of Delaware
ⓘ
linked to:
Delaware
|
| responsibleFor |
bridges in Delaware
ⓘ
highways in Delaware ⓘ maintenance of state-owned rest areas in Delaware ⓘ maintenance of state-owned road signs in Delaware ⓘ maintenance of state-owned toll facilities in Delaware ⓘ maintenance of state-owned traffic signals in Delaware ⓘ public transit systems in Delaware ⓘ public transportation policy in Delaware ⓘ road construction in Delaware ⓘ road maintenance in Delaware ⓘ snow and ice removal on state highways in Delaware ⓘ state road planning in Delaware ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Delaware ⓘ traffic management in Delaware ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Delaware ⓘ transportation safety programs in Delaware ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| shortName |
DelDOT
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linked to:
Delaware Department of Transportation
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| subdivisionOf | Government of Delaware ⓘ |
| website | https://deldot.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: Delaware Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Delaware Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Delaware’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
U.S. Route 13 Business (Claymont, Delaware)
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maintainedBy
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Delaware Department of Transportation
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subject linked to:
U.S. Route 13 Business
linked to: Delaware Department of Transportation
linked to: Delaware Department of Transportation
subject linked to:
Summit Bridge over Chesapeake and Delaware Canal