Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

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Indian national award arts award civilian award

The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is India’s national-level honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the fields of music, dance, and drama.

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Label	Occurrences
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award canonical	7
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1023879 — 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.

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Target entity: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Context triple: [Vijay Tendulkar, awardReceived, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]

A. Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
The Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is an Indian honor presented annually to individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions to promoting communal harmony, national integration, and peace.
B. Shiromani Sahitkar Award
The Shiromani Sahitkar Award is a prestigious literary honor recognizing outstanding contributions to Punjabi literature.
C. Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually to writers for outstanding works in the country’s various recognized languages.
D. Padma Shri
Padma Shri is one of India’s highest civilian honors, awarded by the Government of India to individuals for distinguished contributions in various fields such as arts, education, literature, science, sports, and public service.
E. Padma awards
The Padma awards are among India’s highest civilian honors, recognizing exceptional contributions in various fields such as arts, literature, science, public service, and social work.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Target entity description: The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is India’s national-level honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the fields of music, dance, and drama.

A. Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
The Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award is an Indian honor presented annually to individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions to promoting communal harmony, national integration, and peace.
B. Shiromani Sahitkar Award
The Shiromani Sahitkar Award is a prestigious literary honor recognizing outstanding contributions to Punjabi literature.
C. Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is one of India’s most prestigious literary honors, presented annually to writers for outstanding works in the country’s various recognized languages.
D. Padma Shri
Padma Shri is one of India’s highest civilian honors, awarded by the Government of India to individuals for distinguished contributions in various fields such as arts, education, literature, science, sports, and public service.
E. Padma awards
The Padma awards are among India’s highest civilian honors, recognizing exceptional contributions in various fields such as arts, literature, science, public service, and social work.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indian national award ⓘ arts award ⓘ civilian award ⓘ
administeredBy	Sangeet Natak Akademi ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Akademi Puraskar ⓘ
awardComponents	cash prize ⓘ citation ⓘ shawl ⓘ
awardedFor	outstanding contribution to dance ⓘ outstanding contribution to drama ⓘ outstanding contribution to music ⓘ outstanding contribution to puppetry ⓘ outstanding contribution to scholarship in the performing arts ⓘ outstanding contribution to theatre ⓘ outstanding contribution to traditional and folk arts ⓘ
category	dance category ⓘ music category ⓘ other performing arts categories ⓘ theatre category ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
domain	performing arts ⓘ
eligibility	Indian artists ⓘ artists of Indian origin ⓘ
establishedBy	Government of India ⓘ
field	dance ⓘ dance scholarship ⓘ drama ⓘ folk arts ⓘ music ⓘ musicology ⓘ puppetry ⓘ theatre ⓘ theatre scholarship ⓘ traditional arts ⓘ tribal arts ⓘ
firstAwarded	1952 ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
higherAward	Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship ⓘ
inceptionYear	1952 ⓘ
level	national ⓘ
presentedBy	National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama ⓘ Sangeet Natak Akademi ⓘ
purpose	to honor artists for sustained individual excellence ⓘ to promote music, dance and drama in India ⓘ to recognize outstanding achievement in the performing arts ⓘ
relatedAward	Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship ⓘ
selectionProcess	decided by the General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi ⓘ
sponsor	Government of India ⓘ
status	one of the highest Indian recognitions given to practicing artists in the performing arts ⓘ

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Vijay Tendulkar → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Soumitra Chatterjee → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Kanika Banerjee → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Suchitra Mitra → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Girish Karnad → awardReceived → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Sangeet Natak Akademi → grants → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

Sangeet Natak Akademi → operates → Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards

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