Michael Hewes
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Michael Hewes is a character in the television series "Damages," known primarily as the estranged son and frequent adversary of ruthless attorney Patty Hewes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Hewes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12361471 — 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 Hewes Context triple: [Patty Hewes, hasAdversary, Michael Hewes]
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A.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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B.
David Horsey
David Horsey is an American political cartoonist and commentator renowned for his incisive editorial cartoons and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
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C.
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor best known for his acclaimed play "The Drawer Boy" and his contributions to contemporary Canadian theatre.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
- 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 Hewes Target entity description: Michael Hewes is a character in the television series "Damages," known primarily as the estranged son and frequent adversary of ruthless attorney Patty Hewes.
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A.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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B.
David Horsey
David Horsey is an American political cartoonist and commentator renowned for his incisive editorial cartoons and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning work.
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C.
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor best known for his acclaimed play "The Drawer Boy" and his contributions to contemporary Canadian theatre.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Damages ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Daniel Zelman
ⓘ
Glenn Kessler ⓘ Todd A. Kessler ⓘ |
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Damages ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Damages, season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Damages season 1
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | legal drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| grandparent | Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| hasChild | Catherine Hewes ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalUniverse | English ⓘ |
| lastName | Hewes ⓘ |
| mother | Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist to Patty Hewes
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estranged son of Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| network |
Audience Network
ⓘ
FX ⓘ |
| occupation | teacher ⓘ |
| parent | Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| partner | Jill Burnham ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Noah Bean ⓘ |
| relative |
Catherine Hewes
ⓘ
Jill Burnham ⓘ Patty Hewes ⓘ |
| spouse | Jill Burnham ⓘ |
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 Hewes Description of subject: Michael Hewes is a character in the television series "Damages," known primarily as the estranged son and frequent adversary of ruthless attorney Patty Hewes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patty Hewes in Damages