http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2008/06/identity/claims/windowsaccountname is extracted at the Acceptance Transform rules level on the Active Directory Claim Provider trust. And it contains the format: DOMAIN\SAMACCOUNTNAME.
If this claim is just the sAMAccountName it might have been added to the claim pipeline at the Relying Party trust level in the Issuance Transformation rules.
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