Montana Department of Transportation
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The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montana Department of Transportation canonical | 5 |
| Aeronautics Division of the Montana Department of Transportation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1972754 — 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: Montana Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 15, maintainedBy, Montana Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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B.
Idaho Transportation Department
The Idaho Transportation Department is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Idaho’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Missouri Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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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: Montana Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
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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B.
Idaho Transportation Department
The Idaho Transportation Department is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Idaho’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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C.
Missouri Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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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
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MDT ⓘ |
| cooperatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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local governments in Montana ⓘ tribal governments in Montana ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
civil engineers
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construction inspectors ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| goal |
provide a safe transportation system in Montana
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provide an efficient transportation system in Montana ⓘ support economic development through transportation in Montana ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Helena, Montana, United States
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surface form:
Helena, Montana
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| jurisdiction |
Montana
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surface form:
State of Montana
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| operatesIn | Montana ⓘ |
| oversees |
snow and ice control on state highways in Montana
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state highway pavement conditions in Montana ⓘ state rest areas in Montana ⓘ state traffic signage in Montana ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
government of Montana
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surface form:
Government of Montana
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| responsibleFor |
Montana state highway system
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aeronautics programs in Montana ⓘ building Montana’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ federal-aid highway program implementation in Montana ⓘ freight and rail planning in Montana ⓘ highway construction projects in Montana ⓘ highway design in Montana ⓘ maintaining Montana’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ planning Montana’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ public transit support in Montana ⓘ right-of-way acquisition for highways in Montana ⓘ state bridges in Montana ⓘ traffic operations in Montana ⓘ transportation funding administration in Montana ⓘ transportation planning in Montana ⓘ transportation safety programs in Montana ⓘ winter road maintenance in Montana ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subdivision |
Montana Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Aeronautics Division of the Montana Department of Transportation
Highways and Engineering Division of the Montana Department of Transportation ⓘ Maintenance Division of the Montana Department of Transportation ⓘ Motor Carrier Services Division of the Montana Department of Transportation ⓘ Rail, Transit and Planning Division of the Montana Department of Transportation ⓘ Traffic and Safety programs of the Montana Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| website | https://www.mdt.mt.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: Montana Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Montana Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Montana’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Montana Department of Transportation
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subdivision
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Montana Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Aeronautics Division of the Montana Department of Transportation
subject surface form:
Government of Montana