Dallas Public Works Department
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The Dallas Public Works Department is a municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining the city’s public infrastructure and related services.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3520418 — 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: Dallas Public Works Department Context triple: [Dallas city government, oversees, Dallas Public Works Department]
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A.
Dallas city government
The Dallas city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Dallas, Texas, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
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B.
Dallas City Council
The Dallas City Council is the elected legislative body that sets policy, passes ordinances, and oversees the governance of the city of Dallas, Texas.
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C.
Dallas Division
The Dallas Division is a regional branch of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas that handles federal cases arising from the Dallas area.
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D.
Denton County Transportation Authority
Denton County Transportation Authority is a regional public transit agency in North Texas that operates bus and rail services primarily within Denton County and connects to the broader Dallas–Fort Worth transportation network.
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E.
Dallas Police Department
The Dallas Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Dallas, Texas, and investigating crimes within its jurisdiction.
- 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: Dallas Public Works Department Target entity description: The Dallas Public Works Department is a municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining the city’s public infrastructure and related services.
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A.
Dallas city government
The Dallas city government is the municipal authority responsible for governing the city of Dallas, Texas, overseeing local services, policies, and administration.
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B.
Dallas City Council
The Dallas City Council is the elected legislative body that sets policy, passes ordinances, and oversees the governance of the city of Dallas, Texas.
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C.
Dallas Division
The Dallas Division is a regional branch of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas that handles federal cases arising from the Dallas area.
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D.
Denton County Transportation Authority
Denton County Transportation Authority is a regional public transit agency in North Texas that operates bus and rail services primarily within Denton County and connects to the broader Dallas–Fort Worth transportation network.
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E.
Dallas Police Department
The Dallas Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing the city of Dallas, Texas, and investigating crimes within its jurisdiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government organization
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municipal agency ⓘ public works department ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
civil engineers
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construction inspectors ⓘ maintenance personnel ⓘ project managers ⓘ |
| governedBy | Dallas City Council ⓘ |
| hasDuty |
comply with municipal, state, and federal infrastructure regulations
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ensure safety of public infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ manage public works-related contracts in Dallas ⓘ support economic development through infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ support mobility through street infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ |
| headedBy | Public Works Director of Dallas ⓘ |
| industry | public administration ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Dallas
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Dallas
|
| locatedIn | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Dallas County
NERFINISHED
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Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| parentOrganization |
Dallas city government
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Dallas government
|
| partOf |
Dallas, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
City of Dallas
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| responsibleFor |
alleys in Dallas
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capital improvement projects for infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ city streets in Dallas ⓘ city-owned bridges in Dallas ⓘ construction management of city projects in Dallas ⓘ coordination of utility work in public right-of-way in Dallas ⓘ design of city infrastructure projects in Dallas ⓘ inspection of public works construction in Dallas ⓘ maintenance of certain city facilities and structures in Dallas ⓘ public infrastructure construction in Dallas ⓘ public infrastructure maintenance in Dallas ⓘ public infrastructure planning in Dallas ⓘ right-of-way infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ sidewalks in Dallas ⓘ storm drainage infrastructure in Dallas ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| serviceType |
capital project delivery
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infrastructure management ⓘ public works services ⓘ |
| website | official website of the Dallas Public Works Department ⓘ |
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: Dallas Public Works Department Description of subject: The Dallas Public Works Department is a municipal agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining the city’s public infrastructure and related services.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
City of Dallas Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
City of Dallas Public Works
this entity surface form:
Dallas Department of Sanitation Services
this entity surface form:
Dallas Department of Public Works