Michigan Department of Transportation
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The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1522917 — 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: Michigan Department of Transportation Context triple: [M-28 (Michigan highway), maintainedBy, Michigan Department of Transportation]
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A.
Indiana Department of Transportation
The Indiana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Indiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
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B.
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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C.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
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E.
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.
- 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: Michigan Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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A.
Indiana Department of Transportation
The Indiana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Indiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways and related systems.
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B.
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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C.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Iowa Department of Transportation
The Iowa Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Iowa’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways and interstates.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Michigan Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
MDOT
|
| appliesToJurisdiction | Michigan ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
local road agencies in Michigan ⓘ public transit agencies in Michigan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
administrative staff
ⓘ
civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal and state transportation laws and regulations ⓘ |
| goal |
to maintain and improve mobility for people and goods in Michigan
ⓘ
to provide safe and efficient transportation in Michigan ⓘ to support economic development through transportation infrastructure in Michigan ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bureau of Transportation Planning of the Michigan Department of Transportation
ⓘ
Michigan Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Department of Transportation Aeronautics division
Michigan Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Department of Transportation Highway operations
Michigan Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan Department of Transportation Rail division
|
| hasResponsibilityOver |
interstate highways within Michigan, in cooperation with federal authorities
ⓘ
state transportation funding programs in Michigan ⓘ state trunkline bridges in Michigan ⓘ state-owned rest areas in Michigan ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Lansing, Michigan ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
government of Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan state government
Michigan ⓘ
surface form:
State of Michigan
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Michigan
|
| partOf |
government of Michigan
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan state government cabinet
|
| responsibleFor |
Michigan state trunkline highway system
ⓘ
aeronautics programs in Michigan ⓘ construction of state transportation infrastructure in Michigan ⓘ maintenance of state transportation infrastructure in Michigan ⓘ planning of state transportation infrastructure in Michigan ⓘ public transportation grant programs in Michigan ⓘ rail transportation programs in Michigan ⓘ state-owned bridges in Michigan ⓘ statewide transportation planning in Michigan ⓘ support of public transit systems in Michigan ⓘ traffic and safety programs on state highways in Michigan ⓘ transportation asset management in Michigan ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Executive branch of the State of Michigan
ⓘ
government of Michigan ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Michigan
|
| uses | state and federal transportation funds ⓘ |
| website | https://www.michigan.gov/mdot ⓘ |
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: Michigan Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Michigan Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Michigan’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
M-28
subject surface form:
M-104 (Michigan highway)
subject surface form:
M-60