Right Livelihood Award
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The Right Livelihood Award is an international honor often called the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” recognizing individuals and organizations for practical and exemplary solutions to global problems in areas such as human rights, environmental protection, and social justice.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Right Livelihood Award canonical | 41 |
| Right Livelihood Award Foundation | 3 |
| Honorary Right Livelihood Award | 2 |
| Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award) | 1 |
| Right Livelihood | 1 |
| Right Livelihoods | 1 |
| The Alternative Nobel Prize | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40953 — 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: Right Livelihood Award Context triple: [Greta Thunberg, awardReceived, Right Livelihood Award]
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A.
Sydney Peace Prize
The Sydney Peace Prize is an international award presented annually in Australia to recognize individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to global peace, justice, and human rights.
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B.
Nansen Refugee Award
The Nansen Refugee Award is a prestigious humanitarian honor presented by the United Nations to individuals, groups, or organizations for outstanding service to refugees, displaced, or stateless people.
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C.
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is a prestigious international award recognizing outstanding contributions to environmental science, policy, and global sustainability.
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D.
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five original Nobel Prizes, awarded annually to individuals or organizations that have made outstanding contributions to peace and the resolution of conflicts worldwide.
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E.
William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award
The William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award is a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding leadership and achievement in environmental protection and sustainable policy.
- 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: Right Livelihood Award Target entity description: The Right Livelihood Award is an international honor often called the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” recognizing individuals and organizations for practical and exemplary solutions to global problems in areas such as human rights, environmental protection, and social justice.
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A.
Sydney Peace Prize
The Sydney Peace Prize is an international award presented annually in Australia to recognize individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to global peace, justice, and human rights.
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B.
Nansen Refugee Award
The Nansen Refugee Award is a prestigious humanitarian honor presented by the United Nations to individuals, groups, or organizations for outstanding service to refugees, displaced, or stateless people.
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C.
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is a prestigious international award recognizing outstanding contributions to environmental science, policy, and global sustainability.
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D.
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five original Nobel Prizes, awarded annually to individuals or organizations that have made outstanding contributions to peace and the resolution of conflicts worldwide.
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E.
William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award
The William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award is a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding leadership and achievement in environmental protection and sustainable policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental award
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human rights award ⓘ international award ⓘ peace award ⓘ social justice award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Alternative Nobel Prize ⓘ |
| awardCeremonyLocation | Stockholm ⓘ |
| awardFor |
environmental protection
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human rights ⓘ peace and disarmament ⓘ practical and exemplary solutions to global problems ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Sweden ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Nobel Prize ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1980 ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
global South initiatives
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grassroots solutions ⓘ systemic change ⓘ |
| founder | Jakob von Uexkull ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasLaureate |
Amnesty International
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Asha Hagi Elmi ⓘ Bill McKibben ⓘ Edward Snowden ⓘ GRAIN (organization) ⓘ Greta Thunberg ⓘ Herman Daly ⓘ International Baby Food Action Network ⓘ Kailash Satyarthi ⓘ Memorial (human rights group) ⓘ Nnimmo Bassey ⓘ Sima Samar ⓘ Sulak Sivaraksa ⓘ Vandana Shiva ⓘ |
| hasPart |
award ceremony
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cash prize ⓘ honorary award ⓘ |
| hasTagline |
Right Livelihood Award
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Alternative Nobel Prize
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| headquartersLocation | Stockholm ⓘ |
| inception | 1980 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Swedish ⓘ |
| motto | for the courage to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms ⓘ |
| namedAfter | concept of right livelihood in Buddhist ethics ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
Right Livelihood Award
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
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| selectionProcess |
jury decision
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public nomination process ⓘ |
| typicalNumberOfLaureatesPerYear | 3–4 ⓘ |
| website | https://rightlivelihood.org ⓘ |
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: Right Livelihood Award Description of subject: The Right Livelihood Award is an international honor often called the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” recognizing individuals and organizations for practical and exemplary solutions to global problems in areas such as human rights, environmental protection, and social justice.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
this entity surface form:
The Alternative Nobel Prize
this entity surface form:
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
this entity surface form:
Honorary Right Livelihood Award
this entity surface form:
Right Livelihood Award Foundation
this entity surface form:
Honorary Right Livelihood Award
subject surface form:
Vandana Shiva
subject surface form:
Sulak Sivaraksa
this entity surface form:
Right Livelihood
subject surface form:
Greta Thunberg
this entity surface form:
Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award)
subject surface form:
Cumhuriyet
this entity surface form:
Right Livelihoods