Prometheus Award
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The Prometheus Award is a literary prize honoring outstanding science fiction and fantasy works that explore themes of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prometheus Award canonical | 10 |
| Prometheus Hall of Fame Award | 4 |
| 2009 Prometheus Award | 1 |
| Prometheus Award (Ready Player One) | 1 |
| Prometheus Award for Best Novel | 1 |
| Prometheus Awards program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T230557 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Prometheus Award Context triple: [Cory Doctorow, awardReceived, Prometheus Award]
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A.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious honors in science fiction and fantasy, recognizing outstanding works and achievements in the genre as voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society.
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B.
Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
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C.
Nebula Award
The Nebula Award is a prestigious set of annual honors presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to recognize outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
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Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a prestigious British literary prize presented annually for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Ellie Awards
The Ellie Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing excellence in American magazine journalism and publishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Prometheus Award Target entity description: The Prometheus Award is a literary prize honoring outstanding science fiction and fantasy works that explore themes of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
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A.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious honors in science fiction and fantasy, recognizing outstanding works and achievements in the genre as voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society.
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B.
Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
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C.
Nebula Award
The Nebula Award is a prestigious set of annual honors presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to recognize outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
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D.
Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a prestigious British literary prize presented annually for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Ellie Awards
The Ellie Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing excellence in American magazine journalism and publishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy fiction award
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literary award ⓘ science fiction award ⓘ |
| awardFor |
outstanding science fiction and fantasy works
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works exploring free markets ⓘ works exploring individual liberty ⓘ works exploring limited government ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| eligibility | science fiction and fantasy works published in the previous year ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
free markets
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limited government ⓘ voluntary cooperation ⓘ |
| field | literature ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1979 ⓘ |
| focusesOnTheme |
critique of authoritarianism
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economic freedom in speculative fiction ⓘ individual liberty in speculative fiction ⓘ |
| foundedBy | L. Neil Smith ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Best Novel
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Hall of Fame ⓘ Special Award ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
anthologies
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novels ⓘ short fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Fiction that explores the meaning of freedom ⓘ |
| hasSubaward |
Prometheus Award
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
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| ideology | libertarianism ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Prometheus
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surface form:
Prometheus (mythology)
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| notableWinner |
Charles Stross
ⓘ
Cory Doctorow ⓘ F. Paul Wilson ⓘ Ken MacLeod ⓘ Lois McMaster Bujold ⓘ Neal Stephenson ⓘ Terry Pratchett ⓘ Vernor Vinge ⓘ |
| organizer | Libertarian Futurist Society ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | pro-liberty ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Libertarian Futurist Society ⓘ |
| relatedAward |
Prometheus Award
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
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| selectionProcess | voting by members of the Libertarian Futurist Society ⓘ |
| sponsorType | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| website | https://lfs.org ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Prometheus Award Description of subject: The Prometheus Award is a literary prize honoring outstanding science fiction and fantasy works that explore themes of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2009 Prometheus Award
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Award for Best Novel
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Awards program
this entity surface form:
Prometheus Award (Ready Player One)