Ohio Department of Transportation
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The Ohio Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Ohio’s transportation infrastructure, including its highway and interstate systems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ohio Department of Transportation canonical | 24 |
| ODOT | 2 |
| Division of Highways (ODOT) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2234442 — 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: Ohio Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 77, maintainedBy, Ohio 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.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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C.
Michigan Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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E.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Kentucky’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- 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: Ohio Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Ohio Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Ohio’s transportation infrastructure, including its highway and interstate 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.
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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C.
Michigan Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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E.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Kentucky’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Ohio Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ODOT
|
| budgetSource |
State of Ohio transportation funds
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federal transportation funds ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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local governments in Ohio ⓘ metropolitan planning organizations in Ohio ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
highway safety in Ohio
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infrastructure preservation in Ohio ⓘ mobility and congestion management in Ohio ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Division of Finance (ODOT)
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Ohio Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Highways (ODOT)
Division of Human Resources (ODOT) ⓘ Division of Information Technology (ODOT) ⓘ Division of Operations (ODOT) ⓘ Division of Planning (ODOT) ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Columbus, Ohio ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Ohio
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Ohio
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| maintains |
Interstate highways in Ohio
ⓘ
U.S. highways in Ohio ⓘ state routes in Ohio ⓘ |
| oversees | Ohio’s 12 transportation districts ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Ohio state government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Ohio
|
| partOf | Executive branch of the government of Ohio ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Ohio state highway network
ⓘ
surface form:
Ohio state highway system
Ohio Interstate Highways ⓘ
surface form:
Ohio’s Interstate Highway System within the state
building Ohio’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ highway maintenance in Ohio ⓘ maintaining Ohio’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ planning Ohio’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ road construction projects on state and interstate highways in Ohio ⓘ snow and ice removal on state highways in Ohio ⓘ state-owned bridges in Ohio ⓘ traffic engineering on state routes in Ohio ⓘ transportation planning for Ohio ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Statewide in Ohio ⓘ |
| shortName |
Ohio Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ODOT
|
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | Governor of Ohio ⓘ |
| typeOfTransportInfrastructure |
bridges
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highways ⓘ interstate highways ⓘ roadways ⓘ |
| website | https://www.transportation.ohio.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: Ohio Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Ohio Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Ohio’s transportation infrastructure, including its highway and interstate systems.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Ohio Department of Transportation
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shortName
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Ohio Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ODOT
Ohio Department of Transportation
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abbreviation
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Ohio Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
ODOT
Ohio Department of Transportation
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hasDivision
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Ohio Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Division of Highways (ODOT)
subject surface form:
State Route 8 (Ohio)