Locus Award
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The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4774 — 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: Locus Award Context triple: [Carl Sagan, awardReceived, Locus 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.
Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award
The Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award is a recognition in the field of digital media and hypertext, honoring individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and promotion of open, accessible electronic publishing.
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C.
Loveless Award
The Loveless Award is an honor recognizing significant contributions to the field of computing and information technology.
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D.
Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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E.
Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize is a major international engineering award recognizing outstanding achievements in bioengineering that significantly improve the human condition.
- 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: Locus Award Target entity description: 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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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.
Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award
The Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award is a recognition in the field of digital media and hypertext, honoring individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and promotion of open, accessible electronic publishing.
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C.
Loveless Award
The Loveless Award is an honor recognizing significant contributions to the field of computing and information technology.
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D.
Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
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E.
Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize is a major international engineering award recognizing outstanding achievements in bioengineering that significantly improve the human condition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy award
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literary award ⓘ science fiction award ⓘ |
| awardFor |
excellence in fantasy literature
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excellence in science fiction literature ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Best Anthology
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Best Artist ⓘ Best Collection ⓘ Best Editor ⓘ Locus Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Best Fantasy Novel
Best First Novel ⓘ Best Horror Novel ⓘ Best Magazine ⓘ Best Non-Fiction ⓘ Best Novelette ⓘ Best Novella ⓘ Best Science Fiction Novel ⓘ Best Short Story ⓘ Best Young Adult Book ⓘ |
| inception | 1971 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Locus Publications
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surface form:
Locus magazine
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| notableFor | influence on science fiction and fantasy publishing ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
Locus Publications
ⓘ
Locus Publications ⓘ
surface form:
Locus magazine
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| relatedTo |
Hugo Award
ⓘ
Nebula Award ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | reader poll ⓘ |
| votedOnBy | readers of Locus magazine ⓘ |
| website | https://locusmag.com ⓘ |
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: Locus Award Description of subject: The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best Magazine
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Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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2019 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best Novel
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best First Novel
this entity surface form:
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel