Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

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Tony Award category acting award theatre award

The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in musical productions.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical	49
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical	8
Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical	4
Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical canonical	2
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Phyllis Newman)	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Funny Girl	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Nine	1
Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1222979 — 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 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Context triple: [Best Featured Actress in a Musical, alsoKnownAs, Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical]

A. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding leading performance by an actress in a musical production.
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 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.
D. Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in staging and directing a musical production.
E. 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.
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 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Target entity description: The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in musical productions.

A. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding leading performance by an actress in a musical production.
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 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.
D. Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in staging and directing a musical production.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ acting award ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
administeredBy	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
appliesToPart	featured role ⓘ supporting role ⓘ
awardCategoryOf	Tony Awards ceremony ⓘ linked to: Tony Award
awardedFor	Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Outstanding supporting performance by an actress in a Broadway musical ⓘ
broadcastOn	American television networks ⓘ
ceremonyHeldIn	Broadway theatres ⓘ linked to: Broadway theater
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
eligibility	Actresses in featured roles in Broadway musicals ⓘ Performances in Broadway productions in the eligible season ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ linked to: Broadway theater musical theatre ⓘ
firstAwardedFor	1946–1947 Broadway season ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	performing arts award ⓘ
hasAwardType	competitive award ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificance	major recognition for supporting female musical theatre performers on Broadway ⓘ
hasGenderRestriction	female ⓘ
hasMedium	live theatre ⓘ
hasProductionType	musical ⓘ
hasRoleType	supporting actress ⓘ
hasStatus	active ⓘ
inception	1947 ⓘ
isSubsetOf	Tony Awards for actresses ⓘ linked to: Tony Award acting categories Tony Awards for performances in musicals ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableFor	recognizing supporting actresses in Broadway musicals ⓘ
parentAward	Tony Award for acting in a musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Awards for performances in musicals
partOf	Tony Awards ⓘ linked to: Tony Award
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedTo	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 Actress in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical 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
scope	Broadway productions only ⓘ
selectionMethod	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
typicalAnnouncementTime	late spring ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (68)

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

Best Featured Actress in a Musical → alsoKnownAs → Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical ⓘ

Best Featured Actress in a Musical → shortName → Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical ⓘ