Alabama Department of Transportation
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The Alabama Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Alabama’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alabama Department of Transportation canonical | 35 |
| Alabama Highway Department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111036 — 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: Alabama Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 20, maintainedBy, Alabama Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Texas Department of Transportation
The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Texas’s highway system and other key 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.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public 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: Alabama Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Alabama Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Alabama’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Texas Department of Transportation
The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Texas’s highway system and other key 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.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ALDOT ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
United States Department of Transportation ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Transportation
local governments in Alabama ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
administrative staff
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows |
federal transportation regulations of the United States
ⓘ
state transportation laws of Alabama ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Bureau of Construction
ⓘ
Bureau of Equipment, Procurement and Services ⓘ Bureau of Finance and Audits ⓘ Bureau of Maintenance ⓘ Bureau of Multimodal Transportation ⓘ Bureau of Personnel and Training ⓘ Bureau of Transportation Planning and Modal Programs ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Alabama Department of Transportation self-link ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| inception | 1970s ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Alabama
ⓘ
Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
State of Alabama
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Alabama ⓘ |
| oversees |
state highway construction projects in Alabama
ⓘ
state highway maintenance projects in Alabama ⓘ transportation infrastructure projects funded by the State of Alabama ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Alabama
|
| partOf |
state government of Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama state government
|
| replaced |
Alabama Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama Highway Department
|
| responsibleFor |
Alabama state highway system
ⓘ
surface form:
Alabama state routes
U.S. highways within Alabama ⓘ construction of state highways in Alabama ⓘ interstate highways within Alabama ⓘ maintenance of state highways in Alabama ⓘ planning of state highways in Alabama ⓘ state bridges in Alabama ⓘ state road safety programs in Alabama ⓘ state transportation planning in Alabama ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Alabama ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Alabama ⓘ |
| shortName | ALDOT ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
state government of Alabama
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Alabama
|
| website | https://www.dot.state.al.us/ ⓘ |
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: Alabama Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Alabama Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Alabama’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Alabama Department of Transportation
→
hasOfficialName
→
Alabama Department of Transportation
self-link
ⓘ
Alabama Department of Transportation
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replaced
→
Alabama Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Alabama Highway Department
subject surface form:
State Route 22 (Alabama)
Columbus-Phenix City Metropolitan Planning Organization
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coordinatesWith
→
Alabama Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
SR 21 (Alabama)
subject surface form:
State Route 119 (Alabama)