Four Freedoms Award

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human rights award peace prize

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.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Four Freedoms Award canonical	8
Freedom from Fear Award	2
Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech	1
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards	1
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom from Fear Award	1
Freedom Award	1
Freedom from Want Award	1
Freedom of Speech Award	1
Freedom of Worship Award	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6428 — 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: Four Freedoms Award
Context triple: [Eleanor Roosevelt, awardReceived, Four Freedoms Award]

A. Congressional Gold Medal
The Congressional Gold Medal is one of the highest civilian honors in the United States, awarded by Congress to individuals or groups who have performed outstanding acts of service or achievement for the nation.
B. Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
C. Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction
The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction is the highest grade of the United States’ foremost civilian honor, reserved for individuals who have made especially eminent contributions to the security or national interests of the country, world peace, or other significant public or private endeavors.
D. NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is NASA’s highest honor awarded to non-government individuals for exceptional contributions to the agency’s mission and the interests of the United States in aeronautics and space.
E. Sydney Peace Prize
The Sydney Peace Prize is an international award presented annually in Australia to recognize individuals or organizations that have made significant contributions to global peace, justice, and human rights.
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: Four Freedoms Award
Target entity description: 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.

A. Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States, bestowed by the President to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the country, world peace, or cultural and other significant public or private endeavors.
B. Congressional Gold Medal
The Congressional Gold Medal is one of the highest civilian honors in the United States, awarded by Congress to individuals or groups who have performed outstanding acts of service or achievement for the nation.
C. Hoover Medal
The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
D. Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction
The Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction is the highest grade of the United States’ foremost civilian honor, reserved for individuals who have made especially eminent contributions to the security or national interests of the country, world peace, or other significant public or private endeavors.
E. NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
The NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal is NASA’s highest honor awarded to non-government individuals for exceptional contributions to the agency’s mission and the interests of the United States in aeronautics and space.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human rights award ⓘ peace prize ⓘ
associatedWith	Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ⓘ Roosevelt family ⓘ
awardedFor	defense of human rights ⓘ outstanding contributions to the cause of freedom ⓘ promotion of democracy ⓘ promotion of peace ⓘ
basedOn	Four Freedoms ⓘ United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights ⓘ linked to: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
category	human rights awards ⓘ international awards ⓘ peace awards ⓘ
ceremonyHeldIn	Middelburg ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
countryOfCeremony	Netherlands ⓘ
follows	Four Freedoms Medal ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
hasAwardedFor	freedom from fear ⓘ freedom from want ⓘ freedom of speech ⓘ freedom of worship ⓘ
hasPart	Freedom from Fear Award ⓘ linked to: Four Freedoms Award Freedom from Want Award ⓘ linked to: Four Freedoms Award Freedom of Speech Award ⓘ linked to: Four Freedoms Award Freedom of Worship Award ⓘ linked to: Four Freedoms Award
hasRecipient	Angela Merkel ⓘ Ban Ki-moon ⓘ Desmond Tutu ⓘ Eleanor Roosevelt (posthumously or symbolically in related honors) ⓘ linked to: Eleanor Roosevelt Jimmy Carter ⓘ Kofi Annan ⓘ Malala Yousafzai ⓘ Nelson Mandela ⓘ
honors	individuals ⓘ organizations ⓘ
inception	1982 ⓘ
inspiredBy	Four Freedoms speech ⓘ linked to: Four Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt ⓘ linked to: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
language	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
motto	freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear ⓘ
namedAfter	Four Freedoms ⓘ
notableFor	emphasis on Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms ⓘ
organizer	Roosevelt Institute ⓘ
presentedBy	Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute ⓘ Roosevelt Institute ⓘ

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