Heinz Award

E26056

American award award

The Heinz Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contributions in areas such as the environment, the arts, the economy, and the human condition.

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All labels observed (13)

Label	Occurrences
Heinz Award canonical	4
Heinz Awards	4
Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment	3
Heinz Award in Human Condition	2
Heinz Award in the Human Condition	2
Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities	1
Heinz Award for the Environment	1
Heinz Award in Human Condition (2014)	1
Heinz Awards for Public Policy	1
Heinz Awards for Technology, the Economy and Employment	1
Heinz Awards for the Arts and Humanities	1
Heinz Awards for the Environment	1
Heinz Awards for the Human Condition	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T123847 — 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: Heinz Award
Context triple: [Jane Lubchenco, awardReceived, Heinz Award]

A. Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
B. Gordon Prize
The Gordon Prize is a prestigious engineering education award presented by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering to recognize outstanding innovation in engineering and technology education.
C. Helmholtz Medal
The Helmholtz Medal is a prestigious scientific award presented by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in recognition of outstanding contributions to research.
D. Henry Hess Award
The Henry Hess Award is a prestigious honor presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to recognize outstanding early-career research contributions in the field of mechanical engineering.
E. Albert Einstein Award
The Albert Einstein Award is a prestigious scientific honor recognizing outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and fundamental scientific research.
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: Heinz Award
Target entity description: The Heinz Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contributions in areas such as the environment, the arts, the economy, and the human condition.

A. Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
B. Gordon Prize
The Gordon Prize is a prestigious engineering education award presented by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering to recognize outstanding innovation in engineering and technology education.
C. Helmholtz Medal
The Helmholtz Medal is a prestigious scientific award presented by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in recognition of outstanding contributions to research.
D. Henry Hess Award
The Henry Hess Award is a prestigious honor presented by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to recognize outstanding early-career research contributions in the field of mechanical engineering.
E. Albert Einstein Award
The Albert Einstein Award is a prestigious scientific honor recognizing outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and fundamental scientific research.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American award ⓘ award ⓘ
administeredBy	Heinz Family Foundation ⓘ
awardFor	outstanding contributions in areas such as the environment, the arts, the economy, and the human condition ⓘ
basedIn	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ
category	arts award ⓘ environmental award ⓘ humanitarian award ⓘ philanthropic award ⓘ social justice award ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currency	US dollar ⓘ surface form: United States dollar
eligibility	individuals ⓘ living persons ⓘ
field	arts and humanities ⓘ economy and employment ⓘ education ⓘ environment ⓘ health care ⓘ human condition ⓘ public policy ⓘ technology, the economy and employment ⓘ
firstAwarded	1994 ⓘ
founder	Teresa Heinz ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
hasPart	Heinz Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heinz Awards for Public Policy Heinz Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heinz Awards for Technology, the Economy and Employment Heinz Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heinz Awards for the Arts and Humanities Heinz Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heinz Awards for the Environment Heinz Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heinz Awards for the Human Condition
inception	1993 ⓘ
location	Pennsylvania ⓘ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ surface form: Pittsburgh
monetaryValue	250000 USD ⓘ
motto	to honor the memory and ideals of U.S. Senator John Heinz ⓘ
namedAfter	H. John Heinz III ⓘ
notableRecipient	Amartya Sen ⓘ Bill McKibben ⓘ James Hansen ⓘ Jane Goodall ⓘ Paul Farmer ⓘ Václav Havel ⓘ
presentedBy	Heinz Family Foundation ⓘ
purpose	to recognize individuals for outstanding contributions to the betterment of society ⓘ
regionServed	primarily United States but with international recipients ⓘ
selectionProcess	recipients are nominated and selected by an independent panel of jurors ⓘ
sponsor	Heinz Family Foundation ⓘ
website	https://www.heinzawards.net ⓘ

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Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jane Lubchenco → awardReceived → Heinz Award ⓘ

Dean Kamen → awardReceived → Heinz Award ⓘ

this entity surface form: Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment

Gretchen C. Daily → awardReceived → Heinz Award ⓘ

Steve Wozniak → awardReceived → Heinz Award ⓘ

this entity surface form: Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment