Sam Adams Award
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The Sam Adams Award is an honor given by former U.S. intelligence officers to individuals who demonstrate exceptional integrity and courage in whistleblowing or speaking truth to power.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Adams Award canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1964092 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Adams Award Context triple: [Julian Assange, awardReceived, Sam Adams Award]
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A.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious IEEE Computer Society honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of information processing and computer science.
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B.
Campbell Memorial Award
The Campbell Memorial Award is a prestigious annual literary prize recognizing outstanding science fiction novels.
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C.
Donaldson Award
The Donaldson Award was an early American theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway productions prior to the establishment of the Tony Awards.
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D.
Harold Pender Award
The Harold Pender Award is a prestigious engineering and technology honor recognizing individuals whose groundbreaking contributions have significantly advanced the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
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E.
Les Cunningham Award
The Les Cunningham Award is the American Hockey League’s annual honor given to its most valuable player during the regular season.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Adams Award Target entity description: The Sam Adams Award is an honor given by former U.S. intelligence officers to individuals who demonstrate exceptional integrity and courage in whistleblowing or speaking truth to power.
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A.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious IEEE Computer Society honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of information processing and computer science.
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B.
Campbell Memorial Award
The Campbell Memorial Award is a prestigious annual literary prize recognizing outstanding science fiction novels.
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C.
Donaldson Award
The Donaldson Award was an early American theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway productions prior to the establishment of the Tony Awards.
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D.
Harold Pender Award
The Harold Pender Award is a prestigious engineering and technology honor recognizing individuals whose groundbreaking contributions have significantly advanced the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, or related disciplines.
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E.
Les Cunningham Award
The Les Cunningham Award is the American Hockey League’s annual honor given to its most valuable player during the regular season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human rights award
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whistleblower award ⓘ |
| awardFor |
integrity in intelligence
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speaking truth to power ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| basedOn | legacy of Samuel A. Adams exposing Vietnam War intelligence distortions ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
intelligence community
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national security ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | civil liberties award ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Integrity in Intelligence ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://samadamsaward.ch/ ⓘ |
| inception | 2002 ⓘ |
| location | various international venues ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sam Adams (CIA analyst)
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Samuel A. Adams ⓘ |
| notableRecipient |
Andrew Wilkie
ⓘ
Annie Machon ⓘ Chelsea Manning ⓘ Coleen Rowley ⓘ Craig Murray ⓘ Edward Snowden ⓘ Julian Assange ⓘ Katharine Gun ⓘ Ray McGovern ⓘ Thomas Drake ⓘ William Binney ⓘ |
| organizer | Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence ⓘ |
| presentedBy |
Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence
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former U.S. intelligence officers ⓘ |
| purpose |
to encourage ethical conduct in intelligence work
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to honor whistleblowers in intelligence and national security ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
courage in whistleblowing
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exceptional integrity ⓘ truth-telling about government misconduct ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sam Adams Award Description of subject: The Sam Adams Award is an honor given by former U.S. intelligence officers to individuals who demonstrate exceptional integrity and courage in whistleblowing or speaking truth to power.
Referenced by (4)
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