Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

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Tony Award acting award theatre award

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in stage plays.

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Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play	42
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play canonical	5
Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	3
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Another Part of the Forest	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Ruined	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Stick Fly	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Trip to Bountiful	1
Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play	1
Tony Awards for acting in plays	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T689513 — 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 Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Context triple: [Jennifer Ehle, awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play]

A. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding leading performances by actresses in Broadway theatrical productions.
B. 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.
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.
D. 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.
E. 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.
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 Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Target entity description: The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding supporting performances by actresses in stage plays.

A. Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding leading performances by actresses in Broadway theatrical productions.
B. 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.
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.
D. 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.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award ⓘ acting award ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
awardedFor	Best performance by a featured actress in a play ⓘ
awardFor	supporting actress in a play ⓘ
awardLevel	national ⓘ
awardStatus	active ⓘ
categoryType	acting category ⓘ performance category ⓘ
ceremonyBroadcastOn	American television ⓘ
ceremonyType	award ceremony ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
domain	performing arts ⓘ
eligibility	featured actress roles in plays ⓘ supporting actress roles in plays ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ
firstAwardedForSeason	1946–1947 Broadway season ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
genre	stage acting ⓘ
hasCategory	supporting performance in a play ⓘ
hasRecipientType	actress ⓘ stage performer ⓘ
inception	1947 ⓘ
languageOfCeremony	English ⓘ
locationOfCeremony	New York City ⓘ
medium	live theatre ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableRegion	Broadway ⓘ
organisedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
partOf	Tony Award ⓘ surface form: Tony Awards
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
prestige	major American theatre award ⓘ
recognises	outstanding featured performances by actresses in plays ⓘ
relatedTo	Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
scope	Broadway plays ⓘ
selectionBody	American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League voters ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
shortName	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play
typicalAnnouncementTime	late spring ⓘ
typicalEligibilityPeriod	previous Broadway season ⓘ

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

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de la Tour → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ

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