Arkansas Department of Transportation
E95711
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arkansas Department of Transportation canonical | 12 |
| Arkansas DOT | 1 |
| Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T797348 — 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: Arkansas Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 30, maintainedBy, Arkansas 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.
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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C.
Texas Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Arkansas Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’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.
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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C.
Texas Department of Transportation
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ARDOT ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs |
civil engineers
ⓘ
maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| formerlyKnownAs |
Arkansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
|
| fundingSource |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
Arkansas state government ⓘ
surface form:
state government of Arkansas
|
| governs | Arkansas state highway network ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatus | state agency of Arkansas ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.ardot.gov ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Little Rock, Arkansas ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Arkansas
ⓘ
Arkansas ⓘ
surface form:
State of Arkansas
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Arkansas ⓘ |
| oversees |
Arkansas highway construction projects
ⓘ
Arkansas highway maintenance projects ⓘ road safety improvements on Arkansas state highways ⓘ traffic management on Arkansas state highways ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Arkansas
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Arkansas
|
| responsibleFor |
Arkansas state highways
ⓘ
U.S. highways in Arkansas ⓘ bridges on the Arkansas state highway system ⓘ construction of Arkansas transportation infrastructure ⓘ interstate highways in Arkansas ⓘ maintenance of Arkansas transportation infrastructure ⓘ planning of Arkansas transportation infrastructure ⓘ state highway system of Arkansas ⓘ state routes in Arkansas ⓘ |
| sector |
infrastructure
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| shortName |
Arkansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arkansas DOT
|
| subdivisionOf |
Arkansas state government
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Arkansas
|
| subjectTo |
Arkansas state law
ⓘ
United States federal transportation regulations ⓘ |
| typeOfTransportInfrastructure |
United States Numbered Highway System
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. highways
bridges ⓘ highways ⓘ interstate highways ⓘ state highways ⓘ |
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: Arkansas Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Arkansas Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Arkansas’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
→
formerlyKnownAs
→
Arkansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department
Arkansas Department of Transportation
→
shortName
→
Arkansas Department of Transportation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Arkansas DOT
subject surface form:
Interstate 440 (Arkansas)