Dayton Literary Peace Prize

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literary award peace prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is a prestigious American literary award that honors books promoting peace, social justice, and global understanding.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Dayton Literary Peace Prize canonical	9
Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation	3
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction	2
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction	2
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (lifetime achievement)	1
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (nonfiction winner)	1
Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards	1
Dayton Peace Prize	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307885 — 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: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Context triple: [Isabel Wilkerson, awardReceived, Dayton Literary Peace Prize]

A. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is a prestigious literary prize that honors books contributing to our understanding of racism and the appreciation of human diversity.
B. O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual American prize recognizing outstanding short stories.
C. American Book Award
The American Book Award is a U.S. literary prize that honors outstanding works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other genres by writers from diverse backgrounds without categories or competition among nominees.
D. Four Freedoms Award
The Four Freedoms Award is an honor recognizing individuals and organizations whose work embodies the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, as articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
E. James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards, given annually for outstanding works of fiction and biography.
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: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Target entity description: The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is a prestigious American literary award that honors books promoting peace, social justice, and global understanding.

A. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is a prestigious literary prize that honors books contributing to our understanding of racism and the appreciation of human diversity.
B. O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual American prize recognizing outstanding short stories.
C. American Book Award
The American Book Award is a U.S. literary prize that honors outstanding works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and other genres by writers from diverse backgrounds without categories or competition among nominees.
D. Four Freedoms Award
The Four Freedoms Award is an honor recognizing individuals and organizations whose work embodies the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, as articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
E. James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards, given annually for outstanding works of fiction and biography.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary award ⓘ peace prize ⓘ
awardCategory	Fiction ⓘ Lifetime achievement in literature and peace ⓘ Nonfiction ⓘ
awardFor	books that promote global understanding ⓘ books that promote peace ⓘ books that promote social justice ⓘ
awardGivenFor	contribution to peace through literature ⓘ literary excellence ⓘ
basedOn	Dayton Peace Accords legacy ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
field	literature ⓘ
firstAwarded	2006 ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
hasPart	Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction ⓘ linked to: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction ⓘ linked to: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award ⓘ
inception	2006 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	Dayton, Ohio ⓘ linked to: Dayton, Ohio, United States
motto	celebrating the power of literature to promote peace ⓘ
namedAfter	Dayton, Ohio ⓘ linked to: Dayton
notableWinner	Adam Johnson ⓘ Anthony Doerr ⓘ Bryan Stevenson ⓘ Colson Whitehead ⓘ David Grossman ⓘ Elie Wiesel ⓘ Gloria Steinem ⓘ Junot Díaz ⓘ Louise Erdrich ⓘ Nadine Gordimer ⓘ Ta-Nehisi Coates ⓘ Viet Thanh Nguyen ⓘ Wole Soyinka ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org ⓘ
relatedTo	Dayton Peace Accords ⓘ linked to: Dayton Agreement Dayton Peace Prize ⓘ linked to: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
selectionProcess	judged by a panel of writers and peace advocates ⓘ
sponsor	Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation ⓘ linked to: Dayton Literary Peace Prize
theme	cross-cultural understanding ⓘ human rights ⓘ peace ⓘ reconciliation ⓘ social justice ⓘ

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

Isabel Wilkerson → awardReceived → Dayton Literary Peace Prize ⓘ

The Warmth of Other Suns → shortlistedFor → Dayton Literary Peace Prize ⓘ

Dayton Literary Peace Prize → hasPart → Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction ⓘ