state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois
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The state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois are the government agencies responsible for planning, building, and maintaining each of their states’ highway and transportation systems.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2206530 — 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: state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois Context triple: [U.S. Route 34, maintainedBy, state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois]
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A.
state departments of transportation of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming
The state departments of transportation of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming are the government agencies responsible for planning, building, and maintaining each state’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
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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C.
Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Illinois Department of Transportation
The Illinois Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Illinois’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation 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: state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois Target entity description: The state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois are the government agencies responsible for planning, building, and maintaining each of their states’ highway and transportation systems.
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A.
state departments of transportation of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming
The state departments of transportation of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming are the government agencies responsible for planning, building, and maintaining each state’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
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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C.
Kansas Department of Transportation
The Kansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Kansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
South Dakota Department of Transportation
The South Dakota Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining South Dakota’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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E.
Illinois Department of Transportation
The Illinois Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Illinois’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and aviation systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state department of transportation
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state department of transportation ⓘ state department of transportation ⓘ state department of transportation ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Colorado
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Illinois ⓘ Iowa ⓘ Nebraska ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation |
Ames, Iowa
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Denver, Colorado ⓘ Lincoln, Nebraska ⓘ Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| industry |
transportation
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transportation ⓘ transportation ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| maintains |
state highways in Colorado
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state highways in Illinois ⓘ state highways in Iowa ⓘ state highways in Nebraska ⓘ |
| oversees |
state transportation funding in Colorado
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state transportation funding in Illinois ⓘ state transportation funding in Iowa ⓘ state transportation funding in Nebraska ⓘ |
| partOf |
Government of Colorado
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Government of Illinois ⓘ Government of Iowa ⓘ Nebraska state government ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Nebraska
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| plans |
state transportation projects in Colorado
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state transportation projects in Illinois ⓘ state transportation projects in Iowa ⓘ state transportation projects in Nebraska ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
highway system of Colorado
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highway system of Illinois ⓘ highway system of Iowa ⓘ highway system of Nebraska ⓘ transportation infrastructure of Colorado ⓘ transportation infrastructure of Illinois ⓘ transportation infrastructure of Iowa ⓘ transportation infrastructure of Nebraska ⓘ |
| sector |
public sector
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public sector ⓘ public sector ⓘ public sector ⓘ |
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: state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois Description of subject: The state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois are the government agencies responsible for planning, building, and maintaining each of their states’ highway and transportation systems.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
U.S. Route 34
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maintainedBy
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state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois
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