Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
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The Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in sound design for a play.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play canonical | 6 |
| Tony Award for Best Sound Design in a Play | 1 |
| Tony Award for Sound Design categories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051633 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play Context triple: [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production), awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play]
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A.
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.
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B.
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
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C.
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in directing a stage play.
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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.
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E.
Tony Award for Best Original Score
The Tony Award for Best Original Score is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing the composers and lyricists of the most outstanding new musical score in an eligible play or musical each season.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play Target entity description: The Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in sound design for a play.
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A.
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.
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B.
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
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C.
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in directing a stage play.
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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.
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E.
Tony Award for Best Original Score
The Tony Award for Best Original Score is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing the composers and lyricists of the most outstanding new musical score in an eligible play or musical each season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tony Award
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sound design award ⓘ theatre award ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Broadway sound designers ⓘ |
| awardCategoryOf |
Tony Awards
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linked to:
Tony Award
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| awardDomain | performing arts ⓘ |
| awardedFor | excellence in sound design in a Broadway play ⓘ |
| awardFor | sound design in a play ⓘ |
| ceremonyType | Broadway theatre award ceremony ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| discontinued | 2014 ⓘ |
| eligibility | sound designers of Broadway plays ⓘ |
| field | Broadway theatre ⓘ |
| firstAwarded |
2008 Tony Awards
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linked to:
Tony Awards telecasts
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| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | theatre award ⓘ |
| hasAwardedFor | Best Sound Design of a Play ⓘ |
| hasCategoryType | craft award ⓘ |
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
Tony Award for Sound Design categories
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linked to:
Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
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| location | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableHiatus | category not presented between 2015 and 2016 Tony Awards ⓘ |
| officialNameLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tony Awards
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linked to:
Tony Award
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| presentedBy |
American Theatre Wing
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The Broadway League ⓘ |
| presentedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| recognizes | outstanding achievement in sound design for a play ⓘ |
| reinstated | 2017 ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical ⓘ |
| scope | Broadway plays ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ |
| status | active (after 2017 reinstatement) ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play Description of subject: The Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in sound design for a play.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production)
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awardReceived
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Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
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linked to: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play
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relatedTo
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Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
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linked to: Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
The Sound Inside (Broadway production)
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nominatedFor
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Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play
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