Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play

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Tony Award category theatre award

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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Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play canonical	10
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design	2
Tony for Best Scenic Design of a Play	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051631 — 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 Scenic Design of a Play
Context triple: [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production), awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play]

A. 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.
B. 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.
C. Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing outstanding revivals of previously produced musicals.
D. Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre
The Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre is a special honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the American theatre industry beyond the traditional competitive Tony Award categories.
E. Tony Award for Best Play
The Tony Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual American theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding new play produced on Broadway.
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 Scenic Design of a Play
Target entity description: 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.

A. 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.
B. 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.
C. Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing outstanding revivals of previously produced musicals.
D. Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre
The Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre is a special honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the American theatre industry beyond the traditional competitive Tony Award categories.
E. Tony Award for Best Play
The Tony Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual American theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding new play produced on Broadway.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony for Best Scenic Design of a Play
awardedFor	outstanding scenic design in a play ⓘ
awardFor	scenic design of a play ⓘ
ceremonyLanguage	English ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	Broadway productions ⓘ professional scenic designers ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ
firstAwarded	1960 Tony Awards ceremony ⓘ
formerName	Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	play ⓘ
hasCategory	design award ⓘ stagecraft award ⓘ
hasMedium	live theatre ⓘ
inception	1960 ⓘ
isSubsetOf	Tony Awards for design ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
notableAspect	recognizes overall visual environment including sets and stage space ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.tonyawards.com/ ⓘ
organizer	Tony Awards Administration Committee ⓘ
partOf	Tony Award ⓘ surface form: Tony Awards
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedTo	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play ⓘ surface form: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical ⓘ
scope	visual and environmental design of a play production ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
separatedInto	Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-link ⓘ
splitFrom	Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

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Referenced by (13)

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) → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

The Coast of Utopia (Broadway, 2006–2007) → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

War Horse (play) → wonAward → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Peter and the Starcatcher → award → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play → formerName → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play → splitFrom → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play → separatedInto → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play self-link ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play → alsoKnownAs → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony for Best Scenic Design of a Play

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play → relatedTo → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Scott Pask → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Todd Rosenthal → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Derek McLane → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical → relatedTo → Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ

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