James Sikking
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James Sikking is an American actor best known for his role as the strict and disciplined Lt. Howard Hunter on the acclaimed television series "Hill Street Blues."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Sikking canonical | 5 |
| Andrew Sikking | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458654 — 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: James Sikking Context triple: [Hill Street Blues, castMember, James Sikking]
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
Kevin Nolting
Kevin Nolting is an American film editor best known for his work on Pixar animated features, including the Academy Award-winning film "Up."
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C.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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D.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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E.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
- 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: James Sikking Target entity description: James Sikking is an American actor best known for his role as the strict and disciplined Lt. Howard Hunter on the acclaimed television series "Hill Street Blues."
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A.
Jerry Seeman
Jerry Seeman was a prominent NFL official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became the league’s Director of Officiating.
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B.
Kevin Nolting
Kevin Nolting is an American film editor best known for his work on Pixar animated features, including the Academy Award-winning film "Up."
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C.
Dave Keuning
Dave Keuning is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band The Killers.
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D.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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E.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Doogie Howser, M.D.
ⓘ
Hill Street Blues ⓘ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-03-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Los Angeles
ⓘ
University of Hawaii ⓘ
linked to:
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
|
| familyName | Sikking ⓘ |
| genreOfNotableWork | television series ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasChild | Heidi Sikking ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James Sikking ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of strict and disciplined Lt. Howard Hunter ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doogie Howser, M.D.
ⓘ
Hill Street Blues ⓘ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| role |
Captain Styles
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Dr. David Howser ⓘ Lt. Howard Hunter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Florence "Flora" Sikking ⓘ |
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: James Sikking Description of subject: James Sikking is an American actor best known for his role as the strict and disciplined Lt. Howard Hunter on the acclaimed television series "Hill Street Blues."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Sikking