Tony Award acting categories

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award category group theatre award category

Tony Award acting categories are the groups of performance-based honors presented annually to recognize outstanding achievements by actors in Broadway theatre productions.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tony Award acting categories canonical	2
Tony Award for acting	1
Tony Awards for actresses	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1210803 — 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: Tony Award acting categories
Context triple: [Best Featured Actor in a Musical, partOfSeries, Tony Award acting categories]

A. Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding performances by male actors in supporting roles in plays.
B. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in stage plays.
C. Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual honor presented for an outstanding leading performance by an actor in a Broadway play.
D. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding leading performances by actresses in Broadway theatrical productions.
E. Best Featured Actor in a Play
Best Featured Actor in a Play is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway plays.
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: Tony Award acting categories
Target entity description: Tony Award acting categories are the groups of performance-based honors presented annually to recognize outstanding achievements by actors in Broadway theatre productions.

A. Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding performances by male actors in supporting roles in plays.
B. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in stage plays.
C. Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual honor presented for an outstanding leading performance by an actor in a Broadway play.
D. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding leading performances by actresses in Broadway theatrical productions.
E. Best Featured Actor in a Play
Best Featured Actor in a Play is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway plays.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	award category group ⓘ theatre award category ⓘ
administeredBy	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
associatedAward	Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre ⓘ Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre ⓘ
awardFor	acting in Broadway productions ⓘ performance in musicals ⓘ performance in plays ⓘ
broadcastOn	American television ⓘ
ceremonyLocation	New York City ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
eligibility	performances in eligible Broadway season ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ linked to: Broadway theater
frequency	annual ⓘ
gendered	yes ⓘ
hasCategory	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
inception	1947 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableFor	recognizing excellence in Broadway acting ⓘ
partOf	Tony Awards ⓘ linked to: Tony Award
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedTo	Drama Desk Award acting categories ⓘ linked to: Drama Desk Award Olivier Award acting categories ⓘ linked to: Laurence Olivier Award Outer Critics Circle Award acting categories ⓘ linked to: Outer Critics Circle Award
scope	Broadway productions in New York City ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
separateBy	gender ⓘ leading versus featured roles ⓘ play versus musical ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Best Featured Actor in a Musical → partOfSeries → Tony Award acting categories ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play → isSubsetOf → Tony Award acting categories ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical → isSubsetOf → Tony Awards for actresses ⓘ

linked to: Tony Award acting categories

Triple Crown of Acting → consistsOf → Tony Award for acting ⓘ