Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
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The Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction is a Canadian literary award presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to recognize outstanding works of fiction by Quebec-based authors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946450 — 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)
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Target entity: Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Context triple: [Yann Martel, awardReceived, Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction]
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A.
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize is a major Canadian literary award presented annually to recognize outstanding works of fiction by Canadian authors.
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B.
Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry
The Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry is a Canadian literary prize recognizing outstanding achievement in poetry by Canadian writers.
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C.
Giller Prize
The Giller Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, presented annually to recognize excellence in English-language fiction.
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D.
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a prestigious annual literary award that recognized outstanding fiction by authors from Commonwealth countries, helping to launch and celebrate many notable writers' careers.
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E.
Neil Gunn Prize
The Neil Gunn Prize is a literary award named after Scottish writer Neil M. Gunn, recognizing outstanding fiction or essays that reflect his themes of landscape, culture, and human experience.
- 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: Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Target entity description: The Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction is a Canadian literary award presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to recognize outstanding works of fiction by Quebec-based authors.
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A.
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize is a major Canadian literary award presented annually to recognize outstanding works of fiction by Canadian authors.
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B.
Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry
The Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry is a Canadian literary prize recognizing outstanding achievement in poetry by Canadian writers.
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C.
Giller Prize
The Giller Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, presented annually to recognize excellence in English-language fiction.
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D.
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a prestigious annual literary award that recognized outstanding fiction by authors from Commonwealth countries, helping to launch and celebrate many notable writers' careers.
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E.
Neil Gunn Prize
The Neil Gunn Prize is a literary award named after Scottish writer Neil M. Gunn, recognizing outstanding fiction or essays that reflect his themes of landscape, culture, and human experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | literary award ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Quebec Writers' Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardedIn | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardFor |
fiction
ⓘ
outstanding works of fiction ⓘ |
| category |
Canadian fiction awards
ⓘ
Quebec literary awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| currencyOfMonetaryAward | Canadian dollar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eligibleAuthors | Quebec-based authors ⓘ |
| eligibleRegion | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field | literature ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | fiction ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| languageOfEligibleWorks | English ⓘ |
| location | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Hugh MacLennan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedForNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| namedForOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
| partOf | Quebec Writers' Federation literary awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Quebec Writers' Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsor | Quebec Writers' Federation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://qwf.org/prize/hugh-maclennan-prize-for-fiction/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Description of subject: The Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction is a Canadian literary award presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to recognize outstanding works of fiction by Quebec-based authors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.