Tennessee Department of Transportation
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The Tennessee Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Tennessee’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tennessee Department of Transportation canonical | 107 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1973671 — 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: Tennessee Department of Transportation Context triple: [Hernando de Soto Bridge, maintainedBy, Tennessee Department of Transportation]
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A.
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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B.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
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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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.
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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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: Tennessee Department of Transportation Target entity description: The Tennessee Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Tennessee’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
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A.
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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B.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
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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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.
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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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 (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
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state transportation agency ⓘ |
| abbreviation | TDOT ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Federal Highway Administration
ⓘ
U.S. Department of Transportation ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of Transportation
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employs |
administrative staff
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civil engineers ⓘ maintenance workers ⓘ transportation planners ⓘ |
| follows | federal transportation regulations of the United States ⓘ |
| goal |
maintain and improve mobility in Tennessee
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provide safe and efficient transportation in Tennessee ⓘ support economic development through transportation infrastructure in Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver |
state transportation construction contracts in Tennessee
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state transportation safety projects in Tennessee ⓘ state-maintained roads in Tennessee ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.tn.gov/tdot.html ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Nashville, Tennessee ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
Tennessee
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Tennessee ⓘ |
| oversees |
Tennessee interstate highway system within the state
ⓘ
Tennessee state highway system ⓘ
linked to:
Tennessee State Route System
|
| parentOrganization |
Government of Tennessee
ⓘ
linked to:
Tennessee state government
|
| partOf | Executive branch of the Government of Tennessee ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Tennessee interstate highways within the state
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Tennessee state highways ⓘ aviation support programs in Tennessee ⓘ bridge maintenance in Tennessee ⓘ building transportation infrastructure in Tennessee ⓘ maintaining transportation infrastructure in Tennessee ⓘ multimodal transportation programs in Tennessee ⓘ planning transportation infrastructure in Tennessee ⓘ public transit support programs in Tennessee ⓘ rail transportation programs in Tennessee ⓘ state road maintenance in Tennessee ⓘ state transportation funding programs in Tennessee ⓘ traffic operations on state routes in Tennessee ⓘ transportation planning in Tennessee ⓘ waterways transportation programs in Tennessee ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Tennessee transportation policies
ⓘ
state transportation planning documents of Tennessee ⓘ |
| uses |
federal transportation funds
ⓘ
state transportation budget of Tennessee ⓘ |
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: Tennessee Department of Transportation Description of subject: The Tennessee Department of Transportation is the state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining Tennessee’s highway and transportation infrastructure.
Referenced by (107)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Knoxville–Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission
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collaboratesWith
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Tennessee Department of Transportation
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subject linked to:
Interstate 26 (nearby)
subject linked to:
State Route 62
subject linked to:
State Route 354
subject linked to:
I-240
subject linked to:
SR 170
subject linked to:
SR 116