Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book

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fantasy award literary award science fiction award young adult literature award

The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is a science fiction and fantasy literary award recognizing outstanding YA works, presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).

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Label	Occurrences
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book canonical	5
Lodestar Award	1
Lodestar YA Award	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197882 — 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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Target entity: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Context triple: [Worldcon, awardsPresented, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book]

A. American Book Award
The American Book Award is a U.S. literary prize that honors outstanding works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other genres by writers from diverse backgrounds without categories or competition among nominees.
B. Giller Prize
The Giller Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, presented annually to recognize excellence in English-language fiction.
C. Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
D. Harold Pender Award
The Harold Pender Award is a prestigious engineering and technology honor recognizing individuals whose groundbreaking contributions have significantly advanced the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
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.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book
Target entity description: The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book is a science fiction and fantasy literary award recognizing outstanding YA works, presented annually at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon).

A. American Book Award
The American Book Award is a U.S. literary prize that honors outstanding works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other genres by writers from diverse backgrounds without categories or competition among nominees.
B. Giller Prize
The Giller Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, presented annually to recognize excellence in English-language fiction.
C. Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
D. Harold Pender Award
The Harold Pender Award is a prestigious engineering and technology honor recognizing individuals whose groundbreaking contributions have significantly advanced the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
E. Ellie Awards
The Ellie Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing excellence in American magazine journalism and publishing.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fantasy award ⓘ literary award ⓘ science fiction award ⓘ young adult literature award ⓘ
administeredBy	World Science Fiction Society ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ surface form: Lodestar YA Award
associatedEvent	Hugo Award ⓘ surface form: Hugo Awards ceremony
awardFor	best young adult book ⓘ outstanding work in young adult science fiction or fantasy ⓘ
awardType	non-Hugo award presented at the Hugo ceremony ⓘ
categoryOf	Worldcon awards ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	young adult book published in the previous calendar year ⓘ
field	young adult literature ⓘ
firstAwarded	2018 ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	fantasy ⓘ science fiction ⓘ
hasNominee	young adult fantasy novels ⓘ young adult science fiction novels ⓘ
inception	2018 ⓘ
language	primarily English-language works ⓘ
notableWinner	Charlie Jane Anders ⓘ Naomi Novik ⓘ Nnedi Okorafor ⓘ T. Kingfisher ⓘ
organizer	Worldcon committee ⓘ
presentedAt	Worldcon ⓘ surface form: World Science Fiction Convention
presentedBy	World Science Fiction Society ⓘ
relatedTo	Hugo Award for Best Novel ⓘ Hugo Award for Best Novelette ⓘ Hugo Award for Best Novella ⓘ Hugo Award for Best Series ⓘ
selectionMethod	WSFS member voting ⓘ
shortName	Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Lodestar Award
status	active ⓘ
votingBody	attending and supporting members of Worldcon ⓘ

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Worldcon → awardsPresented → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

World Science Fiction Society → awardAdministered → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

WSFS → awardAdministered → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

subject surface form: World Science Fiction Society

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book → shortName → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lodestar Award

Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book → alsoKnownAs → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lodestar YA Award

Hugo Award category format boundaries → appliesToCategory → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

Hugo Award final ballot counting method → appliesTo → Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book ⓘ

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