Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2473249 — 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: Wisconsin Department of Transportation Context triple: [Milwaukee Intermodal Station, owner, Wisconsin Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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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.
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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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: Wisconsin Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
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A.
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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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.
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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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 (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
state government agency
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transportation agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Wisconsin
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surface form:
State of Wisconsin
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| cooperatesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
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Federal Transit Administration ⓘ local governments in Wisconsin ⓘ regional planning commissions in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employs |
administrative staff
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civil engineers ⓘ law enforcement officers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | Wisconsin state statutes ⓘ |
| hasOfficialAbbreviation |
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
WisDOT
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| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://wisconsindot.gov ⓘ |
| hasTask |
administering federal transportation funds in Wisconsin
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collecting transportation data in Wisconsin ⓘ developing statewide transportation plans ⓘ enforcing commercial vehicle regulations in Wisconsin ⓘ issuing driver licenses ⓘ promoting highway safety education in Wisconsin ⓘ registering motor vehicles ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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surface form:
Madison, Wisconsin
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| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
aviation sector
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rail sector ⓘ surface transportation sector ⓘ |
| oversees |
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Division of Business Management (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Highways (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Motor Vehicles (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Division of State Patrol (Wisconsin Department of Transportation) ⓘ Wisconsin Department of Transportation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Division of Transportation Investment Management (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
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| responsibleFor |
aeronautics and airports oversight in Wisconsin
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driver licensing in Wisconsin ⓘ highway construction in Wisconsin ⓘ highway maintenance in Wisconsin ⓘ interstate highways in Wisconsin ⓘ motor vehicle registration in Wisconsin ⓘ public transit policy in Wisconsin ⓘ rail transportation policy in Wisconsin ⓘ state trunk highway system in Wisconsin ⓘ traffic safety programs in Wisconsin ⓘ transportation funding administration in Wisconsin ⓘ transportation planning in Wisconsin ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Wisconsin state government
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surface form:
Government of Wisconsin
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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: Wisconsin Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Wisconsin’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, public transit, rail, and related facilities.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wisconsin Department of Transportation (through Amtrak services)
subject surface form:
Midwest States Consortium
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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hasOfficialAbbreviation
→
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
WisDOT
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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oversees
→
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Division of Highways (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
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oversees
→
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Division of Motor Vehicles (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
→
oversees
→
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Division of Transportation Investment Management (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
→
oversees
→
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Division of Business Management (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)
this entity surface form:
State of Wisconsin transportation funds