CDOT
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CDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and transit systems.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CDOT canonical | 4 |
| Office of Communications (CDOT) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9863778 — 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: CDOT Context triple: [Colorado Department of Transportation, abbreviation, CDOT]
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A.
CDOT
CDOT is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Chicago’s transportation infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, and traffic systems.
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B.
CDOT
CDOT is the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the state agency responsible for overseeing and operating Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure and services, including rail operations.
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C.
TDOT
TDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Tennessee’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
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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E.
CTDOT
CTDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and bridges.
- 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: CDOT Target entity description: CDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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A.
CDOT
CDOT is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Chicago’s transportation infrastructure, including streets, sidewalks, and traffic systems.
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B.
CDOT
CDOT is the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the state agency responsible for overseeing and operating Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure and services, including rail operations.
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C.
TDOT
TDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Tennessee’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
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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E.
CTDOT
CTDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and bridges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
public sector organization ⓘ state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CDOT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| abbreviationFor | Colorado Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fullName | Colorado Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Denver, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
bridge construction projects
ⓘ
highway construction projects ⓘ multimodal transportation projects ⓘ transit planning ⓘ transportation planning ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintains | state highway network in Colorado ⓘ |
| oversees |
major bridge structures in Colorado
ⓘ
traffic operations on state highways in Colorado ⓘ transportation safety programs in Colorado ⓘ |
| parentGovernment | Government of Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Colorado state bridges
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Colorado state highways NERFINISHED ⓘ Colorado transit systems ⓘ building Colorado’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ maintaining Colorado’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ planning Colorado’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| serves |
residents of Colorado
ⓘ
travelers in Colorado ⓘ |
| shortName | CDOT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.codot.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: CDOT Description of subject: CDOT is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Colorado’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and transit systems.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Colorado Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
Office of Communications (CDOT)