Missouri Department of Transportation
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The Missouri Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Missouri’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Missouri Department of Transportation canonical | 45 |
| Missouri Department of Transportation (through Amtrak services) | 1 |
| MoDOT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T987784 — 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: Missouri Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 435, maintainedBy, Missouri Department of Transportation]
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A.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
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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D.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
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.
- 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: Missouri Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Missouri Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Missouri’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
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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D.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Missouri Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
MoDOT
|
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Missouri
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Missouri
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| cooperatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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Missouri State Highway Patrol ⓘ local governments in Missouri ⓘ neighboring state departments of transportation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
civil engineers
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highway maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal transportation regulations of the United States ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Construction and materials division
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Highway and Transportation division ⓘ Maintenance division ⓘ Motor carrier services division ⓘ Multimodal operations division ⓘ Transportation planning division ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Jefferson City, Missouri ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| oversees |
Missouri U.S. highways within the state
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Missouri interstate highways within the state ⓘ Missouri lettered route system ⓘ state transportation funding programs in Missouri ⓘ state-owned rail crossings in Missouri ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Missouri state government
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surface form:
Government of Missouri
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| partOf | Executive branch of the government of Missouri ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Transportation Improvement Programs
ⓘ
surface form:
Missouri Statewide Transportation Improvement Program
Missouri bridges on the state system ⓘ Missouri state highways ⓘ
surface form:
Missouri state highway system
Missouri state road network ⓘ construction of state transportation infrastructure in Missouri ⓘ maintenance of state transportation infrastructure in Missouri ⓘ planning of state transportation infrastructure in Missouri ⓘ road safety programs on Missouri state highways ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Missouri ⓘ traffic management on Missouri state highways ⓘ winter road maintenance on Missouri state highways ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
commercial motor carriers in Missouri
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freight transportation in Missouri ⓘ motorists in Missouri ⓘ public transportation users in Missouri ⓘ |
| uses |
federal highway funds
ⓘ
state fuel tax revenues of Missouri ⓘ |
| website | https://www.modot.org/ ⓘ |
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: Missouri Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Missouri Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Missouri’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Missouri Department of Transportation (through Amtrak services)
Missouri Department of Transportation
→
abbreviation
→
Missouri Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
MoDOT
subject surface form:
Midwest States Consortium