Nebula Award
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The Nebula Award is a prestigious set of annual honors presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to recognize outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T56322 — 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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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Nebula Award Context triple: [Hugo Award, comparedWith, Nebula Award]
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A.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious honors in science fiction and fantasy, recognizing outstanding works and achievements in the genre as voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society.
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B.
Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
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C.
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer is a major science fiction and fantasy honor recognizing the most promising emerging authors in the field.
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D.
Ellie Awards
The Ellie Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing excellence in American magazine journalism and publishing.
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E.
World Science Fiction Society
The World Science Fiction Society is an international fan organization best known for overseeing the annual Worldcon convention and administering the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Nebula Award Target entity description: The Nebula Award is a prestigious set of annual honors presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to recognize outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
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A.
Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious honors in science fiction and fantasy, recognizing outstanding works and achievements in the genre as voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society.
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B.
Locus Award
The Locus Award is a prestigious set of annual science fiction and fantasy literary awards voted on by readers of Locus magazine.
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C.
Astounding Award for Best New Writer
The Astounding Award for Best New Writer is a major science fiction and fantasy honor recognizing the most promising emerging authors in the field.
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D.
Ellie Awards
The Ellie Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing excellence in American magazine journalism and publishing.
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E.
World Science Fiction Society
The World Science Fiction Society is an international fan organization best known for overseeing the annual Worldcon convention and administering the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy award
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literary award ⓘ science fiction award ⓘ |
| awardCeremony |
Nebula Award
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surface form:
Nebula Awards ceremony
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| awardedFor | best science fiction or fantasy works of the year ⓘ |
| awardedIn |
dramatic presentation
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game writing ⓘ prose fiction ⓘ |
| awardingBodyType | professional writers association ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| eligibility | works of science fiction and fantasy published in the previous year ⓘ |
| field |
fantasy literature
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science fiction literature ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1966 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Nebula Award
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surface form:
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Award
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| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAwardCategory |
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Novel
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Novella
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Script
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Best Short Story
Nebula Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nebula Award for Game Writing
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Grand Master Award
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Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award ⓘ Solstice Award ⓘ |
| hasRelatedAward |
Bram Stoker Award
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Hugo Award ⓘ Locus Award ⓘ |
| hasTrophy |
Nebula Award
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Nebula Award trophy
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| inception | 1965 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| location |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notableFor | recognizing outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://nebulas.sfwa.org/ ⓘ |
| organizer | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
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surface form:
SFWA
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ⓘ |
| region | North America ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | voting by SFWA members ⓘ |
| significance | one of the major American science fiction and fantasy awards ⓘ |
| sponsor | Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| trophyDesigner | J. A. Lawrence ⓘ |
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: Nebula Award Description of subject: The Nebula Award is a prestigious set of annual honors presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to recognize outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy literature.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Robert Silverberg
this entity surface form:
Nebula Award nomination
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Nebula Award nomination
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Nebula Awards
this entity surface form:
Nebula Awards
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Nebula Awards
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Nebula Award nomination
subject surface form:
Pat Murphy (writer)
this entity surface form:
Nebula Award nomination