Maryland Department of Transportation
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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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maryland Department of Transportation canonical | 36 |
| Maryland State Highway Administration | 2 |
| Maryland Transit Administration | 2 |
| MDOT | 1 |
| Maryland Port Administration | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T137340 — 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: Maryland Department of Transportation Context triple: [MARC Train, governingBody, Maryland Department of Transportation]
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A.
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Virginia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Virginia’s highway system and other transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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C.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Massachusetts’ transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, and other mobility systems.
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D.
Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission
The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission is a regional transit agency in Northern Virginia that oversees and funds commuter rail and bus services for member jurisdictions south of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority was a former state agency that operated and maintained the Massachusetts Turnpike and related transportation facilities before its functions were absorbed into the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
- 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: Maryland Department of Transportation Target entity description: 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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A.
Virginia Department of Transportation
The Virginia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Virginia’s highway system and other transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Maine Department of Transportation
The Maine Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Maine’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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C.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Massachusetts’ transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, and other mobility systems.
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D.
Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission
The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission is a regional transit agency in Northern Virginia that oversees and funds commuter rail and bus services for member jurisdictions south of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority was a former state agency that operated and maintained the Massachusetts Turnpike and related transportation facilities before its functions were absorbed into the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Maryland Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MDOT
|
| collaboratesWith |
United States Department of Transportation
ⓘ
regional and local transportation agencies in Maryland ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs | civil servants ⓘ |
| follows | transportation policies of the State of Maryland ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Government of Maryland
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maryland government
|
| fundedBy |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
state budget of Maryland ⓘ |
| goal | to provide safe, efficient, and accessible transportation in Maryland ⓘ |
| hasCabinetLevelStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Maryland Aviation Administration
ⓘ
Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration ⓘ Maryland Port Administration ⓘ Maryland Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland State Highway Administration
Maryland Transit Administration ⓘ Maryland Transportation Authority ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.mdot.maryland.gov ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Anne Arundel County
ⓘ
surface form:
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Hanover, Maryland ⓘ |
| implements |
state transportation plans
ⓘ
transportation safety programs in Maryland ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Maryland
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Maryland
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | transportation ⓘ |
| oversees |
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
ⓘ
Maryland’s state highway system ⓘ Maryland’s state-owned transit services ⓘ Port of Baltimore ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Maryland ⓘ |
| regulates |
commercial transportation operations in Maryland
ⓘ
driver licensing in Maryland ⓘ vehicle registration in Maryland ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
aviation facilities in Maryland
ⓘ
construction of transportation infrastructure in Maryland ⓘ highways in Maryland ⓘ maintenance of Maryland’s transportation systems ⓘ operation of Maryland’s transportation systems ⓘ ports in Maryland ⓘ rail services in Maryland ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Maryland ⓘ transit services in Maryland ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Governor of Maryland ⓘ |
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: Maryland Department of Transportation Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maryland Transit Administration
this entity surface form:
Maryland Transit Administration
this entity surface form:
Maryland Port Administration
Maryland Department of Transportation
→
abbreviation
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
MDOT
Maryland Department of Transportation
→
hasDivision
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Maryland State Highway Administration
this entity surface form:
Maryland State Highway Administration
subject surface form:
Maryland Aviation Administration
Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration
→
parentOrganization
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Maryland Transit Administration
Maryland State Highway Administration
→
parentOrganization
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Yellow Line (Baltimore Light Rail)
subject surface form:
Office of the Executive Director (Maryland Port Administration)
Marketing and Trade Development division
→
parentOrganization
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Maryland Port Administration
subject surface form:
Maryland Vehicle Administration
subject surface form:
Maryland Vehicle Administration
Montgomery County Department of Transportation
→
collaboratesWith
→
Maryland Department of Transportation
ⓘ
subject surface form:
MARC Train station