Arizona Department of Transportation
E162856
The Arizona Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arizona’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arizona Department of Transportation canonical | 31 |
| ADOT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1414839 — 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: Arizona Department of Transportation Context triple: [Arizona State Route 143, maintainedBy, Arizona Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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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.
Alabama Department of Transportation
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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D.
Nevada Department of Transportation
The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Alaska’s transportation infrastructure and many public facilities, including highways, airports, and marine routes.
- 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: Arizona Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Arizona Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arizona’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
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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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.
Alabama Department of Transportation
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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D.
Nevada Department of Transportation
The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Alaska’s transportation infrastructure and many public facilities, including highways, airports, and marine routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Arizona Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ADOT
|
| appliesToJurisdiction | Arizona ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Arizona Department of Public Safety
ⓘ
Federal Highway Administration ⓘ local governments in Arizona ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
administrative staff
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal transportation regulations of the United States ⓘ |
| goal |
improve transportation safety in Arizona
ⓘ
maintain and improve Arizona transportation infrastructure ⓘ support economic development through transportation in Arizona ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Aeronautics division
ⓘ
Infrastructure Delivery and Operations division ⓘ Motor Vehicle Division of Arizona ⓘ Multimodal Planning Division ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Phoenix, Arizona ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Arizona
ⓘ
Arizona ⓘ
surface form:
State of Arizona
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Mountain Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Mountain Standard Time
|
| operatesIn | Arizona ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
U.S. highways within Arizona
ⓘ
aeronautics programs in Arizona ⓘ construction of state highways in Arizona ⓘ driver licensing in Arizona ⓘ interstate highways within Arizona ⓘ maintenance of state highways in Arizona ⓘ motor vehicle services in Arizona ⓘ planning of state highways in Arizona ⓘ public transit support in Arizona ⓘ state highway system in Arizona ⓘ state routes in Arizona ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Arizona ⓘ transportation planning in Arizona ⓘ transportation safety programs in Arizona ⓘ vehicle registration in Arizona ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Executive branch of Arizona
ⓘ
Government of Arizona ⓘ |
| uses |
Arizona state budget funds
ⓘ
federal transportation funds ⓘ |
| website | https://azdot.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: Arizona Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Arizona Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arizona’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge
→
maintainedBy
→
Arizona Department of Transportation
ⓘ
Arizona Department of Transportation
→
abbreviation
→
Arizona Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
ADOT
subject surface form:
Loop 202
subject surface form:
Loop 101