Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in directing a stage play.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T537430 — 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 Direction of a Play Context triple: [Elia Kazan, awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play]
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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.
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B.
Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Best Featured Actor in a Play is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway plays.
- 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 Direction of a Play Target entity description: 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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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.
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B.
Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Best Featured Actor in a Play is a Tony Award category that honors outstanding performances by supporting male actors in Broadway plays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tony Award category
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theatre award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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surface form:
Tony for Best Direction of a Play
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| awardedForWorkType | non-musical play ⓘ |
| awardFor | direction of a play ⓘ |
| awardFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| awardLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| awardStatus | active ⓘ |
| categoryType | creative award ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalRegion | American theatre ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
direction credit on eligible play
ⓘ
professional Broadway production ⓘ |
| eligibleWorks | Broadway plays ⓘ |
| field |
Broadway theater
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surface form:
Broadway theatre
stage directing ⓘ |
| firstAwardedForSeason | 1959–1960 Broadway season ⓘ |
| hasAwardedProfession | theatre directors ⓘ |
| hasCeremony |
Tony Awards telecasts
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surface form:
Tony Awards ceremony
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| hasGenderRestriction | none ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRequirement | no formal language requirement but primarily English-language productions ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecipient |
Joe Mantello
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Marianne Elliott ⓘ Mike Nichols ⓘ Peter Brook ⓘ Sam Mendes ⓘ |
| hasTrophy | Tony Award statuette ⓘ |
| inception | 1960 ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| isMajorCategory | true ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
direction awards
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play awards ⓘ |
| languageOfProductions | primarily English ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Antoinette Perry
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surface form:
Antoinette Perry (Tony)
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| officialWebsite | https://www.tonyawards.com/ ⓘ |
| organizer |
American Theatre Wing
ⓘ
The Broadway League ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tony Award
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surface form:
Tony Awards
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| presentedBy |
American Theatre Wing
ⓘ
The Broadway League ⓘ |
| recognizes | outstanding achievement in directing a play ⓘ |
| scope | Broadway productions ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ |
| separatedFrom |
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tony Award for Best Direction (combined play and musical category prior to split)
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| timePeriodCovered | preceding Broadway season ⓘ |
| typicalMedium | live theatre ⓘ |
| typicalVenueOfCeremony | New York City ⓘ |
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Subject: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Description of subject: The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in directing a stage play.
Referenced by (27)
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 Direction of a Play
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subject surface form:
Elia Kazan
this entity surface form:
Tony for Best Direction of a Play
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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separatedFrom
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Tony Award for Best Direction (combined play and musical category prior to split)
The Coast of Utopia (Broadway, 2006–2007)
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awardReceived
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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this entity surface form:
Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Play
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
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separatedFrom
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
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relatedAward
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Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
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this entity surface form:
Tony Award for Best Director of a Play
this entity surface form:
Tony Award for Best Director