Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play

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Tony Award category theatre award

The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.

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Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play canonical	8
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design	1
Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play	1
Tony for Best Lighting Design of a Play	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051632 — 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 Lighting Design of a Play
Context triple: [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production), awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play]

A. Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
B. 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.
C. Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in staging and directing a musical production.
D. Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing outstanding revivals of previously produced musicals.
E. Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre
The Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre is a special honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the American theatre industry beyond the traditional competitive Tony Award categories.
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 Lighting Design of a Play
Target entity description: The Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play is a prestigious annual honor recognizing outstanding achievement in lighting design for Broadway plays.

A. Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
The Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in the visual and environmental design of a play’s production.
B. 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.
C. Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical is a prestigious annual Broadway theatre honor recognizing outstanding achievement in staging and directing a musical production.
D. Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing outstanding revivals of previously produced musicals.
E. Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre
The Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre is a special honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the American theatre industry beyond the traditional competitive Tony Award categories.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony for Best Lighting Design of a Play
appliesTo	professional Broadway productions ⓘ
awardCategoryOf	Tony Award ⓘ
awardedFor	outstanding lighting design in a Broadway play ⓘ
awardedIn	United States theatre industry ⓘ
awardFor	lighting design of a play ⓘ
ceremonyHeldIn	Broadway Theatre District ⓘ surface form: Broadway theatre district
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibility	Broadway theater ⓘ surface form: Broadway productions professional lighting designers ⓘ
field	theatre ⓘ
firstAwarded	2005 Tony Awards ceremony ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	play ⓘ
hasAwardCriteria	artistic excellence in lighting design ⓘ effectiveness in supporting the play’s storytelling ⓘ originality of lighting concept ⓘ
hasMedium	live theatre ⓘ
hasRecipientType	individual lighting designer ⓘ
hasType	competitive award ⓘ
inception	2005 ⓘ
isPartOfSeries	annual Tony Awards ceremonies ⓘ
isSubsetOf	design categories of the Tony Awards ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableAspect	recognizes technical and artistic achievement in stage lighting ⓘ
partOf	Tony Award ⓘ surface form: Tony Awards
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedTo	Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play ⓘ
scope	Broadway plays only ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
separatedFrom	Tony Award for Best Lighting Design ⓘ
status	active award category ⓘ

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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) → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

The Coast of Utopia (Broadway, 2006–2007) → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

The Secret Garden (1991 Broadway production) → nominatedFor → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony Award for Best Lighting Design

Best Lighting Design → hasSubcategory → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play

War Horse (play) → wonAward → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

Peter and the Starcatcher → award → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play → relatedTo → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

Brian MacDevitt → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play → alsoKnownAs → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony for Best Lighting Design of a Play

Howell Binkley → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

Kenneth Posner → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play ⓘ

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