Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
E794986
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional supporting performances by male actors in stage plays, across both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play canonical | 1 |
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for M. Butterfly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9341363 — 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: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Context triple: [BD Wong, awardReceived, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play]
-
A.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional direction in off-Broadway and Broadway plays.
-
B.
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
-
C.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical is a New York theater honor recognizing exceptional lead performances by male actors in musical productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway.
-
D.
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding performances by male actors in supporting roles in plays.
-
E.
Drama Desk
Drama Desk is a New York–based organization of theater critics, writers, and editors that honors excellence in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
- 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: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Target entity description: The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional supporting performances by male actors in stage plays, across both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
-
A.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional direction in off-Broadway and Broadway plays.
-
B.
Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
-
C.
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical is a New York theater honor recognizing exceptional lead performances by male actors in musical productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway.
-
D.
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding performances by male actors in supporting roles in plays.
-
E.
Drama Desk
Drama Desk is a New York–based organization of theater critics, writers, and editors that honors excellence in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Drama Desk Award category
ⓘ
theatre award ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Broadway productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Off-Broadway productions ⓘ Off-Off-Broadway productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCategoryFor | individual performers ⓘ |
| awardFor | supporting performances by male actors in plays ⓘ |
| awardForWorkIn | stage plays ⓘ |
| awardType | competitive award ⓘ |
| categoryOf | play acting awards ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field | stage acting ⓘ |
| formerName | Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | theatre ⓘ |
| hasAudience | theatre community ⓘ |
| hasAwardCategoryType | featured role ⓘ |
| hasEligibilityCriterion |
performance during the relevant theatre season
ⓘ
performance in a professional New York theatre production ⓘ |
| hasFocus | supporting acting in plays ⓘ |
| hasOrganizingBody | Drama Desk organization ⓘ |
| hasParentAward | Drama Desk Award for acting in a play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | New York theatre ⓘ |
| hasReputation | prestigious New York theatre honor ⓘ |
| hasStatus | active ⓘ |
| hasTrophyType | Drama Desk Award statuette ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.dramadeskawards.com ⓘ |
| inception | 1975 ⓘ |
| isSimilarTo |
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf | Drama Desk acting awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | including Broadway and Off-Broadway in same category ⓘ |
| partOf | Drama Desk Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Drama Desk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedIn | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizes |
outstanding featured performances in plays
ⓘ
supporting roles in stage plays ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | voted on by Drama Desk members ⓘ |
| sexOrGenderRestriction | male actors ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Description of subject: The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing exceptional supporting performances by male actors in stage plays, across both Broadway and Off-Broadway productions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for M. Butterfly