John Scott Medal

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The John Scott Medal is a prestigious scientific and engineering award given to inventors whose innovations have significantly benefited humanity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf invention award
science and engineering award
awardedFor inventions that have contributed in some outstanding way to the comfort, welfare and happiness of humankind
significant contributions to humanity through science and engineering innovation
awardType medal
country United States of America
surface form: United States
currency still awarded in the 21st century
eligibility inventors
field engineering
science
technology
frequency irregular
inception 1822
location Philadelphia
namedAfter John Scott
notableRecipient Drew Weissman
Gertrude B. Elion
Guglielmo Marconi
Jonas Salk
Katalin Karikó
Marie Curie
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Alva Edison
surface form: Thomas Edison
presentedBy Board of Directors of City Trusts of Philadelphia
selectionCriteria demonstrated practical benefit to society
sponsor John Scott legacy fund

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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: John Scott Medal
Description of subject: The John Scott Medal is a prestigious scientific and engineering award given to inventors whose innovations have significantly benefited humanity.

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Thomas Alva Edison awardReceived John Scott Medal
J. Presper Eckert awardReceived John Scott Medal
John Scott legacy fund supports John Scott Medal
this entity surface form: John Scott Medal awards program
John Scott legacy fund namedAfter John Scott Medal
John Scott legacy fund associatedWith John Scott Medal
John Scott legacy fund funds John Scott Medal
this entity surface form: John Scott Medal awards
John Scott notableFor John Scott Medal
John Scott hasLegacy John Scott Medal
Charles Sumner Tainter awardReceived John Scott Medal