This type is for awards of all kinds. Only the general, or high-level, award topic should use this type. General award topics would include Academy Award, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize. Categories, such as Academy Award for Best Picture, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting should use the "award category" type. This type has properties for the individual categories (past and present) of the award, and for the organization(s) that present the award. Some awards, such as the Pritzker Prize in architecture, do not have categories; these awards can be typed as both award and award category.  See the help topic entering award information for more details about using these types. 

This type can be used for all kinds of awards and prizes.  This type should only be applied to specific awards (e.g., the The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Nobel Peace Prize) rather than for the general award (e.g. Academy Award, Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize). If the award only has a single category, the award and award category should share the same topic.For more information on entering awards data, see the help topic Entering Award Information.

An award ceremony is any event at which one or more awards or award categories is presented. Topics that are award ceremonies include: Ceremonies where little occurs besides the presentation of the awards themselves (and perhaps including a meal, speech, appreciation, or peformance); Ceremonies that are part of a larger event; Larger events such as conferences, conventions, or festivals at which awards are presented. (So, for example, the 2009 Cannes Film Festival could be typed as an Award Ceremony in order to link the various awards presented during it, without requiring the creation of a separate "2010 Cannes Film Festival Awards Ceremony" topic.)

This type is used to categorize award categories to allow comparisons of awards in the same or similar disciplines. This should be considered a very loose type, and award categories will probably have many disciplines, depending on what kinds of things people are interested in filtering on. For example, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry could have the disciplines poetry (since it's for works of poetry), literature (since poetry is a type of literature), and book (since the award is specifically for a book of poems, rather than a single poem). Or the Academy Award for Best Actor could include film, acting, and male as disciplines.

An award judge is any person who has served on the jury or awarding committee of a juried award.

This is a work of any kind that has been nominated for an award. A work, as defined here, is any product of a person or organization. Common works include films, books, articles, consumer products, etc. It should, however, only be used for relatively concrete things. Awards for more general accomplishments, such as life achievement awards or honors such as for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (which is what Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for), should not use this type. For more information on entering awards data, see the help topic Entering Award Information.

An award nominee is any person or organization that has been nominated for an award or prize. Adding this type to the topic page of a person or organization adds the property award nominations, which can be used to list the awards for which they were nominated. If a person or organization recieved an award, use the type award winner.For more information on entering awards data, see the help topicEntering Award Information.

An award presenting organization is any organization (company, group, etc.) which presents an award or prize.For more information on entering awards data, see the help topicEntering Award Information.

An award winner is any person or organization that has received an award or prize. Adding this type to the topic page of a person or organization adds the property awards won, which can be used to list the awards they have received. If a person or organization was also nominated for an award, use the type award nominee.For more information on entering awards data, see the help topicEntering Award Information.

This is a work of any kind that has received an award. A work, as defined here, is any product of a person or organization. Common works include films, books, articles, consumer products, etc. It should, however, only be used for relatively concrete things. Awards for more general accomplishments, such as life achievement awards or honors such as for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (which is what Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for), should not use this type. For more information on entering awards data, see the help topic Entering Award Information.

This is a generic competition type for any such event not handled by a more specific type (such as sports championship or olympic event). It can be used for beauty pageants, potato sack races, or robot duels.

This type is used for cataloging different kinds of competitions, particularly so that different competitions and contestants and winners can be grouped and compared (for example, to create a table of beauty pageant contestants or fishing competition winners).

A competitor is any entity—an individual person, a team, a corporation, a school—which participates in any competition.

This type is for halls of fame for all disciplines. A hall of fame is usually created to honor people (or other things) that have excelled in a particular field.

This type can be used to help group halls of fame in related fields (for example, one could filter halls of fame to include all those related to music, or to exclude all related to sports).

A hall of fame inductee is simply any person, group, or other entity that has been inducted into a hall of fame.

Some halls of fame make inductions in a number of different categories -- for example, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has categories for Performers, Sidemen, Non-performers, and Early Influences; the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame has categories for Horses and People.

A long-list nominee is any person or organization which has been put on the long list for an award. Some awards (but by no means all) publish long lists, which may act as preliminary ballots from which a final ballot (sometimes called a short list or sometimes just called the nominees) is drawn.

This is a "work" of any kind that has been long-listed for an award. Some awards (but by no means all) publish long lists, which may act as preliminary ballots from which a final ballot (sometimes called a short list or sometimes just called the nominees) is drawn. A work, as defined here, is any product of a person or organization. Common works include films, books, articles, consumer products, etc. It should, however, only be used for relatively concrete things. Awards for more general accomplishments, such as life achievement awards or honors such as "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" (which is what Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for), should not use this type.

This type is for items (used very broadly here to include just about anything -- people, companies, places, schools, films, books, etc.) that have been included in ranked lists such as the Fortune 500 or the American Film Institute's 100 Years series of lists. It should not be used for personal rankings ("my favorite films" or the like).

This type is for any type of ranked list of things. Examples include lists such as the Fortune 500 and the American Film Institute's 100 Years series. This type should not be used for personal lists such as "my favorite movies" or the like.

This type can be used for any entity, such as a person, organization, magazine, etc., that has created a ranked list of some kind. Examples include Fortune Magazine (of the Fortune 500) and the American Film Institute.

This type is for recurring competitions -- competitions that are (or have been) held multiple times. Examples include Miss Universe, Bassmaster Classic, and Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Award honor is a compound value type that connects an award wineer, the workfor which they recieved the award, and the award they won.For information on entering awards data, see the help topicEntering Award Information.

"Award Judging Term" is a compound value type that captures information about award juries and the people who serve on them.

Award nomination is a compound value type that connects an award nominee, the work they were nominated for, and the award for which they were nominated. For information on entering awards data, see the help topic Entering Award Information.

This is a compound-value type that contains information relating to the induction of a specific person (or group, or animal, etc.) into a hall of fame.

This is a compound-value type holding information about long-list nominations for awards. Some awards (but by no means all) publish long lists, which may act as preliminary ballots from which a final ballot (sometimes called a short list or sometimes just called the nominees) is drawn.

This is a compound-value type that stores information about rankings in lists such as the Fortune 500.