Mississippi Department of Transportation
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The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mississippi Department of Transportation canonical | 37 |
| state departments of transportation of Mississippi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1111035 — 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: Mississippi Department of Transportation Context triple: [Interstate 20, maintainedBy, Mississippi Department of Transportation]
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A.
Missouri Department of Transportation
The Missouri Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Missouri’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
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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C.
Alabama Department of Transportation
The Alabama Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Alabama’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Louisiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related public works.
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E.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’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: Mississippi Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
Missouri Department of Transportation
The Missouri Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Missouri’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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B.
Arkansas Department of Transportation
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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C.
Alabama Department of Transportation
The Alabama Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Alabama’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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D.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is the state agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Louisiana’s transportation infrastructure, including highways, bridges, and related public works.
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E.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, constructing, and maintaining Oklahoma’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MDOT ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
enhancing mobility in Mississippi
ⓘ
improving transportation safety in Mississippi ⓘ supporting economic development through transportation in Mississippi ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
Mississippi Highway Patrol ⓘ local governments in Mississippi ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| develops |
long-range transportation plans for Mississippi
ⓘ
statewide freight plans for Mississippi ⓘ statewide multimodal transportation strategies ⓘ |
| employs |
civil engineers
ⓘ
maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal transportation regulations of the United States ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver |
state transportation right-of-way in Mississippi
ⓘ
state-maintained roads in Mississippi ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.gomdot.com/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Jackson, Mississippi ⓘ |
| implements |
highway safety improvement projects in Mississippi
ⓘ
state transportation improvement program in Mississippi ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Mississippi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| manages |
construction contracts for state transportation projects in Mississippi
ⓘ
state transportation funding for highways in Mississippi ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Mississippi ⓘ |
| oversees |
Mississippi state highway system
ⓘ
state transportation improvement projects in Mississippi ⓘ |
| partOf | Government of Mississippi ⓘ |
| provides |
road condition updates in Mississippi
ⓘ
traffic incident information in Mississippi ⓘ traveler information services in Mississippi ⓘ |
| regulates | access to state highways in Mississippi ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
bridge maintenance in Mississippi
ⓘ
construction of state transportation projects ⓘ maintenance of Mississippi state highways ⓘ maintenance of state transportation facilities ⓘ planning of state transportation systems ⓘ road safety programs in Mississippi ⓘ state highways in Mississippi ⓘ statewide transportation planning ⓘ traffic management on state highways ⓘ transportation infrastructure in Mississippi ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Mississippi state transportation policies ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | executive branch of the Government of Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Mississippi Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Mississippi Department of Transportation is the state government agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Mississippi’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mississippi Department of Transportation