Best Sound Design of a Musical

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Tony Award category theatre award category

Best Sound Design of a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding achievement in the audio and sound design of Broadway musical productions.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical	4
Best Sound Design of a Musical canonical	1
Best Sound Design of a Musical Tony Award	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197219 — 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: Best Sound Design of a Musical
Context triple: [Tony Award, categoryIncludes, Best Sound Design of a Musical]

A. Best Direction of a Musical
Best Direction of a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding achievement in directing Broadway musical productions.
B. Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an Oscar given annually to honor the most outstanding original music composed specifically for a motion picture.
C. Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a prestigious film industry honor presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievement in motion picture music composition.
D. Academy Award for Best Sound
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Oscar category honoring outstanding achievement in the recording, mixing, and overall quality of a film’s audio.
E. Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
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: Best Sound Design of a Musical
Target entity description: Best Sound Design of a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding achievement in the audio and sound design of Broadway musical productions.

A. Best Direction of a Musical
Best Direction of a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding achievement in directing Broadway musical productions.
B. Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an Oscar given annually to honor the most outstanding original music composed specifically for a motion picture.
C. Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is a prestigious film industry honor presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievement in motion picture music composition.
D. Academy Award for Best Sound
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Oscar category honoring outstanding achievement in the recording, mixing, and overall quality of a film’s audio.
E. Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ theatre award category ⓘ
administeredBy	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
awardedForProductionsIn	Broadway ⓘ
awardFor	audio design in Broadway musical productions ⓘ sound design in a musical ⓘ
awardScope	outstanding achievement in sound design of a musical ⓘ
awardType	competitive award ⓘ
ceremonyLocation	New York City ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
discontinuedFromYear	2014 ⓘ
discontinuedThroughYear	2017 ⓘ
eligibility	professional Broadway productions ⓘ
field	sound design ⓘ theatre ⓘ
firstAwardedForSeason	2007–2008 Broadway season ⓘ
frequency	annually ⓘ
hasCategoryGroup	design awards at the Tony Awards ⓘ
hasGenreFocus	musical theatre ⓘ
hasLanguageRequirement	English ⓘ
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.tonyawards.com/ ⓘ
hasSeparateCategoryFrom	Best Sound Design of a Play ⓘ
hasVotingBody	Tony Awards voters ⓘ
inception	2008 ⓘ
industry	Broadway theatre ⓘ
isAnnual	true ⓘ
medium	live theatre ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableChange	category eliminated after 2014 ceremony and later restored ⓘ
organizer	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
partOf	Tony Awards ⓘ linked to: Tony Award
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
recognizesProfession	sound designers ⓘ
reinstated	true ⓘ
reinstatedAnnouncementYear	2017 ⓘ
reinstatedForSeason	2017–2018 Broadway season ⓘ
relatedCategory	Best Sound Design of a Play ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
shortName	Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical ⓘ linked to: Best Sound Design of a Musical
status	active ⓘ
temporarilyDiscontinued	true ⓘ
typicalCeremonyMonth	June ⓘ
typicalVenueCity	New York City ⓘ

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