Shannon Award
E422691
The Shannon Award is a prestigious honor in information theory recognizing individuals for outstanding and sustained contributions to the field.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shannon Award canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4227964 — 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: Shannon Award Context triple: [Charles H. Bennett, awardReceived, Shannon Award]
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A.
Steven A. Coons Award
The Steven A. Coons Award is a prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH honor recognizing outstanding lifetime contributions to the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
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B.
Fowler Award
The Fowler Award is a prize presented by the Royal Astronomical Society to recognize outstanding early-career research in astronomy or geophysics.
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C.
John J. Carty Award
The John J. Carty Award is a prestigious science prize presented by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to recognize notable achievements in various fields of scientific research.
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D.
Ness Award
The Ness Award is a distinction conferred by the Royal Geographical Society recognizing outstanding contributions to the popular understanding of geography and the wider public promotion of the discipline.
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E.
Burroughs Medal
The Burroughs Medal is a prestigious American literary award honoring outstanding books in the field of natural history.
- 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: Shannon Award Target entity description: The Shannon Award is a prestigious honor in information theory recognizing individuals for outstanding and sustained contributions to the field.
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A.
Steven A. Coons Award
The Steven A. Coons Award is a prestigious ACM SIGGRAPH honor recognizing outstanding lifetime contributions to the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
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B.
Fowler Award
The Fowler Award is a prize presented by the Royal Astronomical Society to recognize outstanding early-career research in astronomy or geophysics.
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C.
John J. Carty Award
The John J. Carty Award is a prestigious science prize presented by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to recognize notable achievements in various fields of scientific research.
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D.
Ness Award
The Ness Award is a distinction conferred by the Royal Geographical Society recognizing outstanding contributions to the popular understanding of geography and the wider public promotion of the discipline.
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E.
Burroughs Medal
The Burroughs Medal is a prestigious American literary award honoring outstanding books in the field of natural history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
information theory award
ⓘ
scientific award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Claude E. Shannon Award ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Shannon Lecture ⓘ |
| awardFor |
outstanding contributions to information theory
ⓘ
sustained contributions to information theory ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| field | information theory ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasRecipient |
Claude E. Shannon
ⓘ
linked to:
Claude Shannon
David S. Slepian ⓘ
linked to:
David Slepian
Imre Csiszár ⓘ Jack K. Wolf ⓘ Peter Elias ⓘ Robert G. Gallager ⓘ Robert J. McEliece ⓘ Robert M. Fano ⓘ Rudolf Ahlswede ⓘ Sergio Verdú ⓘ Shannon Award recipients deliver a Shannon Lecture ⓘ Solomon W. Golomb ⓘ Thomas M. Cover ⓘ Toby Berger ⓘ |
| inception | 1972 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Claude E. Shannon
ⓘ
linked to:
Claude Shannon
|
| notableFor | highest honor of the IEEE Information Theory Society ⓘ |
| partOf | IEEE Information Theory Society honors and awards program ⓘ |
| presentedBy | IEEE Information Theory Society ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
impact on the information theory community
ⓘ
technical excellence in information theory ⓘ |
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: Shannon Award Description of subject: The Shannon Award is a prestigious honor in information theory recognizing individuals for outstanding and sustained contributions to the field.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.