Margaret A. Edwards Award
E1034379
The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association honor recognizing an author’s significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret A. Edwards Award canonical | 4 |
| YASD/SLJ Author Achievement Award | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13324354 — 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: Margaret A. Edwards Award Context triple: [Susan Cooper, awardReceived, Margaret A. Edwards Award]
-
A.
H. H. Bloomer Award
The H. H. Bloomer Award is a prize given by the Linnean Society of London to recognize significant contributions to natural history made by amateur naturalists.
-
B.
Kate Wolf Memorial Award
The Kate Wolf Memorial Award is a folk music honor named after singer-songwriter Kate Wolf, recognizing artists for their lifetime contributions to the folk and acoustic music community.
-
C.
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is a prestigious literary honor recognizing outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to the field of literature.
-
D.
Betty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Award is a British literary prize given to debut novelists under the age of 35, recognizing traditional or romantic fiction.
-
E.
Barbara Jefferis Award
The Barbara Jefferis Award is an Australian literary prize given to novels that depict women and girls in a positive or empowering light.
- 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: Margaret A. Edwards Award Target entity description: The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association honor recognizing an author’s significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
-
A.
H. H. Bloomer Award
The H. H. Bloomer Award is a prize given by the Linnean Society of London to recognize significant contributions to natural history made by amateur naturalists.
-
B.
Kate Wolf Memorial Award
The Kate Wolf Memorial Award is a folk music honor named after singer-songwriter Kate Wolf, recognizing artists for their lifetime contributions to the folk and acoustic music community.
-
C.
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
The Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is a prestigious literary honor recognizing outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to the field of literature.
-
D.
Betty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Award is a British literary prize given to debut novelists under the age of 35, recognizing traditional or romantic fiction.
-
E.
Barbara Jefferis Award
The Barbara Jefferis Award is an Australian literary prize given to novels that depict women and girls in a positive or empowering light.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Library Association award
ⓘ
literary award ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Young Adult Library Services Association ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization | Young Adult Library Services Association ⓘ |
| awardedFor | significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature ⓘ |
| awardType | author career achievement award ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field | young adult literature ⓘ |
| firstRecipient | S. E. Hinton ⓘ |
| formerName |
YASD/SLJ Author Achievement Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Margaret A. Edwards Award
|
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genreFocus | realistic young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
American literary awards
ⓘ
Awards established in 1988 ⓘ Young adult literature awards ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Margaret A. Edwards
ⓘ
linked to:
Margaret Alexander Edwards
|
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| organizer | American Library Association ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
American Library Association
ⓘ
Young Adult Library Services Association ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
body of work rather than a single title
ⓘ
books widely read by teenagers ⓘ work that helps adolescents become aware of themselves and their role in the world ⓘ |
| sponsor | School Library Journal ⓘ |
| typicalHonorees |
authors of young adult fiction
ⓘ
authors of young adult nonfiction ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ala.org/yalsa/edwards ⓘ |
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: Margaret A. Edwards Award Description of subject: The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association honor recognizing an author’s significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margaret A. Edwards Award