North Dakota Department of Transportation
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The North Dakota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining North Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| North Dakota Department of Transportation canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10674190 — 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: North Dakota Department of Transportation Context triple: [I-94, maintainedBy, North Dakota Department of Transportation]
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South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Minnesota Department of Transportation
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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D.
Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Mexico’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- 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: North Dakota Department of Transportation Target entity description: The North Dakota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining North Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Nebraska Department of Transportation
The Nebraska Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nebraska’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Minnesota Department of Transportation
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Minnesota’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and transit systems.
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D.
Montana Department of Transportation
The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Mexico’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | NDDOT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
NERFINISHED
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North Dakota Highway Patrol NERFINISHED ⓘ local governments in North Dakota ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
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civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| goal |
provide efficient transportation system in North Dakota
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provide safe transportation system in North Dakota ⓘ provide sustainable transportation system in North Dakota ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bismarck, North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesIn | North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oversees |
roadway signage on state highways in North Dakota
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state highway construction projects in North Dakota ⓘ state highway maintenance projects in North Dakota ⓘ traffic signals on state highways in North Dakota ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Executive branch of the Government of North Dakota ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
aviation system planning support in North Dakota
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bridge construction and maintenance in North Dakota ⓘ construction of state transportation infrastructure in North Dakota ⓘ driver licensing in North Dakota ⓘ freight and rail planning in North Dakota ⓘ issuance of license plates in North Dakota ⓘ maintenance of North Dakota state highways ⓘ maintenance of state transportation infrastructure in North Dakota ⓘ oversight of motor vehicle laws administration in North Dakota ⓘ planning of state transportation infrastructure in North Dakota ⓘ public transit program support in North Dakota ⓘ roadway design standards in North Dakota ⓘ snow and ice control on state highways in North Dakota ⓘ state highway system of North Dakota ⓘ state transportation funding programs administration in North Dakota ⓘ traffic safety programs in North Dakota ⓘ transportation planning for highways in North Dakota ⓘ vehicle registration in North Dakota ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| uses | state and federal transportation funds ⓘ |
| website | https://www.dot.nd.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: North Dakota Department of Transportation Description of subject: The North Dakota Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining North Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.