Award for the Advancement of Free Software

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The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is a prestigious honor presented by the Free Software Foundation to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of free software.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf award
free software award
awardedFor advancing the cause of software freedom
country United States of America
surface form: United States
field free software
open-source software
software freedom
firstAwarded 1998
frequency annual
hasAwardingBody Free Software Foundation
hasCategory civil liberties in the digital world
software award
technology award
hasLanguage English
inception 1998
namedAfter advancement of free software
notableRecipient Aaron Swartz
Alan Cox
Andrew Tridgell
Benjamin Mako Hill
Edward Snowden
GNOME desktop environment
surface form: GNOME Project

Guido van Rossum
Harald Welte
Larry Wall
Matthew Garrett
Miguel de Icaza
OpenSSH developers
Richard Stallman
Samba Team
Sébastien Jodogne
Theo de Raadt
Werner Koch
Wietse Venema
Wikimedia Foundation
Yukihiro Matsumoto
organizer Free Software Foundation
partOf Award for the Advancement of Free Software self-linksurface differs
surface form: Free Software Foundation awards program
presentedBy Free Software Foundation
surface form: FSF

Free Software Foundation
purpose recognize outstanding contributions to the development of free software
recognize outstanding contributions to the promotion of free software
relatedTo Award for Projects of Social Benefit
Award for Projects of Social Benefit
surface form: Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit
selectionCriteria long-term commitment to free software
significant technical or non-technical contributions to free software
sponsor Free Software Foundation
website https://www.fsf.org/awards

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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: Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Description of subject: The Award for the Advancement of Free Software is a prestigious honor presented by the Free Software Foundation to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of free software.

Referenced by (10)

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

Guido van Rossum awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Award for the Advancement of Free Software partOf Award for the Advancement of Free Software self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Free Software Foundation awards program
Miguel de Icaza awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Award for Projects of Social Benefit relatedTo Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: Free Software Awards
Award for Projects of Social Benefit relatedTo Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Matthew Garrett notableAward Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: Free Software Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Andrew Tridgell awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: Free Software Award
Mitchell Baker awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Matz notableAward Award for the Advancement of Free Software
subject surface form: Yukihiro Matsumoto
this entity surface form: Award for the Advancement of Free Software (FSF) (2005)
John D. Hunter awardReceived Award for the Advancement of Free Software
this entity surface form: FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software