Texas Department of Transportation
E93088
The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Texas’s highway system and other key transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Texas Department of Transportation canonical | 87 |
| Denton District of TxDOT | 1 |
| State of Texas transportation corridor network | 1 |
| Texas DOT | 1 |
| Texas state transportation system | 1 |
| TxDOT | 1 |
| TxDOT San Antonio District | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T785001 — 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: Texas Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 35E (Texas), maintainedBy, Texas Department of Transportation]
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A.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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B.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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C.
Georgia Department of Transportation
The Georgia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Georgia’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
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E.
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.
- 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: Texas Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Texas’s highway system and other key transportation infrastructure.
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A.
Florida Department of Transportation
The Florida Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Florida’s transportation infrastructure, including its highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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B.
Texas Department of Public Safety
The Texas Department of Public Safety is a statewide law enforcement and public safety agency responsible for highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and emergency management across Texas.
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C.
Georgia Department of Transportation
The Georgia Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Georgia’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and public transit systems.
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D.
Maryland Department of Transportation
The Maryland Department of Transportation is the statewide agency responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Maryland’s transportation systems, including highways, transit, ports, aviation, and rail services.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Texas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
TxDOT
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| alsoKnownAs |
Texas Department of Transportation
ⓘ
surface form:
Texas DOT
|
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Texas ⓘ local governments in Texas ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerType | public sector ⓘ |
| goal |
enhance mobility in Texas
ⓘ
improve safety on Texas transportation system ⓘ maintain and preserve Texas transportation infrastructure ⓘ support economic development through transportation in Texas ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Austin District
ⓘ
Dallas District ⓘ Fort Worth District ⓘ Houston District ⓘ San Antonio District ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Austin
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surface form:
Austin, Texas
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| jurisdiction |
Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Texas
|
| legalForm | state agency ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Texas ⓘ |
| oversees |
environmental review for state transportation projects in Texas
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maintenance of state bridges in Texas ⓘ right-of-way acquisition for state highways in Texas ⓘ statewide transportation improvement program in Texas ⓘ traffic operations on Texas state highways ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Government of Texas ⓘ |
| provides |
road condition reports in Texas
ⓘ
travel information for Texas highways ⓘ |
| regulates | access management on state highways in Texas ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Texas farm-to-market roads
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Texas interstate highways ⓘ Texas state highways ⓘ Texas toll roads (state-operated) ⓘ aviation planning support in Texas ⓘ building Texas highway system ⓘ maintaining Texas highway system ⓘ planning Texas highway system ⓘ public transportation coordination in Texas ⓘ statewide transportation infrastructure in Texas ⓘ traffic safety programs in Texas ⓘ transportation planning in Texas ⓘ |
| sector | transportation ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Texas transportation policy debates ⓘ |
| uses |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
state fuel tax revenues ⓘ |
| website | https://www.txdot.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: Texas Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Texas Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Texas’s highway system and other key transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (93)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Houston District (TxDOT)
subject surface form:
Houston District (TxDOT)
this entity surface form:
TxDOT San Antonio District
this entity surface form:
Texas state transportation system
Metropolitan Planning Organizations in Texas
→
collaboratesWith
→
Texas Department of Transportation
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subject surface form:
State Highway 6 (Texas)
this entity surface form:
Denton District of TxDOT