Nevada Department of Transportation
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The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nevada Department of Transportation canonical | 38 |
| NDOT | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T745025 — 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: Nevada Department of Transportation Context triple: [Sierra Nevada transportation corridor, maintainedBy, Nevada Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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B.
Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Oregon’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit support, rail, and other infrastructure.
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C.
New Hampshire Department of Transportation
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Hampshire’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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D.
California State Transportation Agency
The California State Transportation Agency is a California state government cabinet-level department that oversees and coordinates the state’s transportation-related entities and policies, including highways, rail, transit, and other mobility systems.
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E.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Alaska’s transportation infrastructure and many public facilities, including highways, airports, and marine routes.
- 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: Nevada Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
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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B.
Oregon Department of Transportation
The Oregon Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Oregon’s transportation systems, including highways, public transit support, rail, and other infrastructure.
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C.
New Hampshire Department of Transportation
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining New Hampshire’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related facilities.
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D.
California State Transportation Agency
The California State Transportation Agency is a California state government cabinet-level department that oversees and coordinates the state’s transportation-related entities and policies, including highways, rail, transit, and other mobility systems.
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E.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities is the state agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Alaska’s transportation infrastructure and many public facilities, including highways, airports, and marine routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Nevada Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NDOT
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| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
local governments in Nevada ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| employs |
civil engineers
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maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
highway safety in Nevada
ⓘ
traffic operations in Nevada ⓘ transportation infrastructure resilience in Nevada ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Carson City
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surface form:
Carson City, Nevada
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| jurisdiction |
Nevada
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Nevada
|
| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| mandate | provide safe and efficient transportation for Nevada ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Nevada ⓘ |
| oversees |
road construction projects in Nevada
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road maintenance projects in Nevada ⓘ state transportation projects in Nevada ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Nevada ⓘ |
| regulates | aspects of state highway use in Nevada ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
U.S. highways within Nevada
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building Nevada’s highway infrastructure ⓘ interstate highways within Nevada ⓘ maintaining Nevada’s highway infrastructure ⓘ planning Nevada’s transportation infrastructure ⓘ state highways in Nevada ⓘ transportation planning in Nevada ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| state | Nevada ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Nevada state law
ⓘ
federal transportation regulations ⓘ |
| typeOfTransportManaged | road transport ⓘ |
| usesFundingFrom |
federal transportation funds
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state funds of Nevada ⓘ |
| website | https://www.dot.nv.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: Nevada Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Nevada Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Nevada’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 580 (Nevada)
Nevada Department of Transportation
→
abbreviation
→
Nevada Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
NDOT
subject surface form:
State Route 28 (Nevada)
subject surface form:
Mount Rose Highway
subject surface form:
State Route 375