Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

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Tony Award category theatre award

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.

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Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical canonical	78
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical	42
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical	8
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Barbra Streisand)	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (for Beauty and the Beast)	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for On the Twentieth Century	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Wicked	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical – Sutton Foster	1
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical: High Spirits	1
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Beth Leavel)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Caitlin Kinnunen)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Judy Holliday)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Liza Minnelli)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Maria Friedman)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (for Lea Salonga, 1991)	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	1
Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical	1
Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Musical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T483903 — 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 Actress in a Musical
Context triple: [Bette Midler, awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical]

A. 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.
B. Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
C. Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding cast recordings of musical theater productions.
D. Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Best Featured Actress in a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by actresses in supporting roles in Broadway musicals.
E. Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Best Featured Actor in a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway musicals.
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 Actress in a Musical
Target entity description: 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.

A. 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.
B. Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
C. Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding cast recordings of musical theater productions.
D. Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Best Featured Actress in a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by actresses in supporting roles in Broadway musicals.
E. Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Best Featured Actor in a Musical is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway musicals.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
administeredBy	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical ⓘ
awardedForSeason	Broadway theatre season ⓘ
awardFor	best leading performance by an actress in a musical ⓘ
awardType	performance award ⓘ
ceremonyBroadcastOn	CBS ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
eligibility	leading actress in a Broadway musical ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ
firstAwardedFor	1947–1948 Broadway season ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	musical theatre ⓘ
hasCategoryType	leading role ⓘ
inception	1948 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
medium	live theatre ⓘ
notableWinner	Angela Lansbury ⓘ Audra McDonald ⓘ Bernadette Peters ⓘ Chita Rivera ⓘ Julie Andrews ⓘ Patti LuPone ⓘ
organisedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
partOf	Tony Awards ⓘ linked to: Tony Award
presentedAt	Tony Awards ceremony ⓘ linked to: Tony Awards telecasts
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedAward	Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical ⓘ linked to: Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ⓘ 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
scope	Broadway productions only ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
significance	one of the highest honors for musical theatre actresses on Broadway ⓘ
status	active ⓘ

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Referenced by (145)

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

Bette Midler → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical ⓘ

Kristin Chenoweth → nominatedFor → Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical ⓘ

Kristin Chenoweth → nominatedForWork → Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Wicked ⓘ