Seattle Department of Transportation
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The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Department of Transportation canonical | 11 |
| Seattle Department of Transportation (through legislation and budget) | 1 |
| Seattle Vision Zero safety projects | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2541573 — 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: Seattle Department of Transportation Context triple: [Seattle city government, hasDepartment, Seattle Department of Transportation]
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A.
Portland Bureau of Transportation
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
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B.
Seattle city government
The Seattle city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Seattle, Washington, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
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C.
Seattle City Council
The Seattle City Council is the legislative body of the City of Seattle, responsible for passing laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal policies and services.
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D.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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E.
Sound Transit
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
- 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: Seattle Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
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A.
Portland Bureau of Transportation
The Portland Bureau of Transportation is the city agency responsible for planning, building, managing, and maintaining Portland, Oregon’s transportation infrastructure and services.
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B.
Seattle city government
The Seattle city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Seattle, Washington, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
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C.
Seattle City Council
The Seattle City Council is the legislative body of the City of Seattle, responsible for passing laws, approving budgets, and overseeing municipal policies and services.
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D.
Metro Transit
Metro Transit is the primary public transportation agency for the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, operating buses, light rail, and commuter rail services.
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E.
Sound Transit
Sound Transit is the regional public transit agency that plans, builds, and operates light rail, commuter rail, and express bus services in the greater Puget Sound area of Washington State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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municipal transportation agency ⓘ |
| appliesPolicy | Vision Zero safety policy in Seattle ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
King County Metro
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Washington State Department of Transportation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer |
maintenance crews in Seattle
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transportation engineers in Seattle ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
mobility
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multimodal transportation ⓘ sustainable transportation ⓘ traffic safety ⓘ |
| governs | use of public right-of-way in Seattle ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
capital projects division
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maintenance operations division ⓘ street use division ⓘ traffic operations division ⓘ transit and mobility division ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.seattle.gov/transportation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
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| implements | Seattle transportation policies ⓘ |
| industry | transportation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
City of Seattle
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | municipal department ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Seattle ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
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| ownedBy |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
City of Seattle
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| parentOrganization |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
City of Seattle
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| partOf | Seattle city government ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
bicycle infrastructure in Seattle
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bridges in Seattle ⓘ city streets in Seattle ⓘ pedestrian infrastructure in Seattle ⓘ right-of-way management in Seattle ⓘ street use permitting in Seattle ⓘ traffic signals in Seattle ⓘ transportation construction projects in Seattle ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Seattle ⓘ transportation maintenance in Seattle ⓘ transportation operations in Seattle ⓘ transportation planning in Seattle ⓘ transportation services in Seattle ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Seattle urban area ⓘ |
| shortName | SDOT ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Seattle transportation plans ⓘ |
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: Seattle Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Seattle Department of Transportation is the municipal agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Seattle’s transportation infrastructure and services.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Seattle Department of Transportation (through legislation and budget)
this entity surface form:
Seattle Vision Zero safety projects
Office of Sustainability and Environment (Seattle)
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collaboratesWith
→
Seattle Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
3rd Avenue (Seattle)