Primetime Emmy Awards for acting

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television acting award

Primetime Emmy Awards for acting are prestigious television honors recognizing exceptional performances by actors in various categories across comedy and drama series.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Primetime Emmy Award nomination	11
Primetime Emmy Award for acting	4
Primetime Emmy Awards for acting canonical	4
Primetime Emmy Award nomination for The Cosby Show	1
Primetime Emmy Awards acting categories	1
Primetime Emmy acting awards	1
Primetime Emmy acting categories	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2732567 — 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: Primetime Emmy Awards for acting
Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, hasCategoryGroup, Primetime Emmy Awards for acting]

A. Primetime Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor
The Primetime Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor was a television accolade honoring an outstanding one-time acting performance in a primetime program.
B. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series is a major American television accolade honoring exceptional performances by actresses in supporting roles on dramatic TV series.
C. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series is a major television accolade presented annually to honor an actor’s performance in a supporting role on a dramatic TV series.
D. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie is a major television honor presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to recognize exceptional leading performances by actresses in limited series or television films.
E. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series is a major television honor presented annually to recognize the best performance by a leading actress in a dramatic TV series.
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: Primetime Emmy Awards for acting
Target entity description: Primetime Emmy Awards for acting are prestigious television honors recognizing exceptional performances by actors in various categories across comedy and drama series.

A. Primetime Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor
The Primetime Emmy Award for Best Single Performance by an Actor was a television accolade honoring an outstanding one-time acting performance in a primetime program.
B. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series is a major American television accolade honoring exceptional performances by actresses in supporting roles on dramatic TV series.
C. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series is a major television accolade presented annually to honor an actor’s performance in a supporting role on a dramatic TV series.
D. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie is a major television honor presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to recognize exceptional leading performances by actresses in limited series or television films.
E. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series is a major television honor presented annually to recognize the best performance by a leading actress in a dramatic TV series.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	television acting award ⓘ
administeredBy	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ⓘ surface form: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Board of Governors
alsoKnownAs	Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ surface form: Primetime Emmy acting categories
awardedFor	excellence in television acting ⓘ outstanding performance by an actor in a television program ⓘ
broadcastOn	American television networks ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	performances in U.S. primetime television within the eligibility year ⓘ
field	performing arts ⓘ television industry ⓘ
firstAwarded	late 1940s ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	television award ⓘ
hasCategory	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series ⓘ surface form: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series ⓘ Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series ⓘ surface form: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special ⓘ surface form: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ⓘ Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ⓘ Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ⓘ Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie ⓘ
hasGenderSpecificCategories	yes ⓘ
hasGuestRoleCategories	yes ⓘ
hasLeadRoleCategories	yes ⓘ
hasSupportingRoleCategories	yes ⓘ
hasTimeframe	primetime television programming ⓘ
inception	1949 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	Los Angeles ⓘ
medium	television ⓘ
organizer	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ⓘ surface form: Television Academy
partOf	Primetime Emmy Awards ⓘ
presentedBy	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ⓘ
relatedTo	Daytime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ Golden Globe television acting awards ⓘ surface form: Golden Globe Awards for television acting
selectionProcess	voting by Television Academy members ⓘ
significance	one of the highest honors in American television acting ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (23)

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

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series → hasCategoryGroup → Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel → awardReceived → Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series → isSubsetOf → Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ

this entity surface form: Primetime Emmy Award for acting

I Spy → wonAward → Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ

subject surface form: I Spy (1965 TV series)

Marlee Matlin → awardReceived → Primetime Emmy Awards for acting ⓘ