Philip J. Klass Award
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The Philip J. Klass Award is an honor given for outstanding contributions to scientific skepticism and critical inquiry, named after the prominent UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip J. Klass Award canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T308229 — 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: Philip J. Klass Award Context triple: [James Randi, awardReceived, Philip J. Klass Award]
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A.
AIME Robert H. Richards Award
The AIME Robert H. Richards Award is a prestigious professional honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy.
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R. Bruce Lindsay Award
The R. Bruce Lindsay Award is a prestigious honor presented by the Acoustical Society of America to recognize outstanding early-career contributions to the field of acoustics.
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C.
Martin J. Buerger Award
The Martin J. Buerger Award is a scientific honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of crystallography, particularly in the development of crystallographic methods and instrumentation.
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Stanley Corrsin Award
The Stanley Corrsin Award is a prestigious honor in fluid dynamics recognizing outstanding contributions to the understanding of turbulence and related flow phenomena.
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E.
LeRoy Apker Award
The LeRoy Apker Award is a prestigious American Physical Society honor recognizing outstanding achievement in physics by undergraduate students in the United States.
- 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: Philip J. Klass Award Target entity description: The Philip J. Klass Award is an honor given for outstanding contributions to scientific skepticism and critical inquiry, named after the prominent UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass.
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A.
AIME Robert H. Richards Award
The AIME Robert H. Richards Award is a prestigious professional honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of mineral processing and extractive metallurgy.
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B.
R. Bruce Lindsay Award
The R. Bruce Lindsay Award is a prestigious honor presented by the Acoustical Society of America to recognize outstanding early-career contributions to the field of acoustics.
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C.
Martin J. Buerger Award
The Martin J. Buerger Award is a scientific honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of crystallography, particularly in the development of crystallographic methods and instrumentation.
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D.
Stanley Corrsin Award
The Stanley Corrsin Award is a prestigious honor in fluid dynamics recognizing outstanding contributions to the understanding of turbulence and related flow phenomena.
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E.
LeRoy Apker Award
The LeRoy Apker Award is a prestigious American Physical Society honor recognizing outstanding achievement in physics by undergraduate students in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award
ⓘ
science and skepticism award ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
science advocacy
ⓘ
skeptical movement ⓘ |
| awardFor |
outstanding contributions to critical inquiry
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outstanding contributions to scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| eligibility |
individuals
ⓘ
organizations ⓘ |
| field |
critical thinking
ⓘ
science communication ⓘ scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
science and reason
ⓘ
skepticism ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
American awards
ⓘ
science communication awards ⓘ skeptical awards ⓘ |
| honors | Philip J. Klass ⓘ |
| inception | 2005 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Philip J. Klass ⓘ |
| namedAfterNotableFor | skeptical investigation of UFO claims ⓘ |
| namedAfterOccupation |
UFO skeptic
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| notableRecipient |
Carl Sagan
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James Randi ⓘ Joe Nickell ⓘ Martin Gardner ⓘ Massimo Polidoro ⓘ Paul Kurtz ⓘ Ray Hyman ⓘ Susan Blackmore ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationOfPresenter | Center for Inquiry ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
CSI
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Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ⓘ
surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
|
| purpose |
to encourage critical examination of extraordinary claims
ⓘ
to recognize significant contributions to scientific skepticism ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Center for Inquiry
ⓘ
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ⓘ
surface form:
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Skeptical Inquirer ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
defense of science and reason
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long-term contributions to the skeptical movement ⓘ promotion of critical inquiry ⓘ |
| typicalVenue |
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry events
ⓘ
skeptical conferences ⓘ |
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: Philip J. Klass Award Description of subject: The Philip J. Klass Award is an honor given for outstanding contributions to scientific skepticism and critical inquiry, named after the prominent UFO skeptic Philip J. Klass.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.