Michael Conrad
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Michael Conrad was an American character actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Conrad canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458651 — 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: Michael Conrad Context triple: [Hill Street Blues, castMember, Michael Conrad]
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A.
Michael Condrey
Michael Condrey is a video game developer best known as the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and for his work on the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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C.
Conrad Riggs
Conrad Riggs is a television producer best known for his executive production work on major reality TV franchises, including "The Apprentice."
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D.
Joel Aldrich Matteson
Joel Aldrich Matteson was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Illinois.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- 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: Michael Conrad Target entity description: Michael Conrad was an American character actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
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A.
Michael Condrey
Michael Condrey is a video game developer best known as the co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and for his work on the Call of Duty franchise.
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B.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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C.
Conrad Riggs
Conrad Riggs is a television producer best known for his executive production work on major reality TV franchises, including "The Apprentice."
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D.
Joel Aldrich Matteson
Joel Aldrich Matteson was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Illinois.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ |
| characterPlayed | Phil Esterhaus ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | NBC ⓘ |
| familyName | Conrad ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Conrad ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sgt. Phil Esterhaus ⓘ |
| notableWork | Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film performer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television performer ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Hill Street Blues ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Michael Conrad Description of subject: Michael Conrad was an American character actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Sgt. Phil Esterhaus on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.