Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

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Tony Award category theatre award

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.

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Label	Occurrences
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play canonical	42
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	5
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "The Prisoner of Second Avenue"	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for M. Butterfly	1
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Seven Guitars	1
Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T788843 — 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: Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Context triple: [Ian McDiarmid, awardReceived, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play]

A. 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.
B. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
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.
C. 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.
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 Featured Actor in a Play
Target entity description: 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.

A. 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.
B. Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
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.
C. 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.
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 (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Tony Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
awardedFor	outstanding performance in a featured role in a play on Broadway ⓘ
awardFor	best performance by a featured actor in a play ⓘ
awardTerritory	Broadway ⓘ
categoryType	acting award ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
eligibleRoleType	male actor ⓘ supporting role ⓘ
field	Broadway theater ⓘ surface form: Broadway theatre
firstAwardedForSeason	1946–1947 Broadway season ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	play ⓘ
hasCeremonyBroadcastOn	American television ⓘ
hasGenderRestriction	male ⓘ
hasMedium	live theatre ⓘ
inception	1947 ⓘ
languageOfProductions	primarily English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
namedAfter	Antoinette Perry ⓘ
notableFor	recognizing supporting male performances in Broadway plays ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.tonyawards.com ⓘ
organizer	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
partOf	Tony Award ⓘ surface form: Tony Awards
presentedAt	Tony Awards telecasts ⓘ surface form: Tony Awards ceremony
presentedBy	American Theatre Wing ⓘ The Broadway League ⓘ
relatedCategory	Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play ⓘ surface form: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
scope	Broadway productions ⓘ
selectionMethod	voted on by Tony Awards voters ⓘ
shortName	Best Featured Actor in a Play ⓘ

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Richard Easton → awardReceived → Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

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