Joseph C. Phillips
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Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph C. Phillips canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3239273 — 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: Joseph C. Phillips Context triple: [The Cosby Show, starring, Joseph C. Phillips]
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A.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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B.
Frank V. Phillips
Frank V. Phillips was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century films, particularly in the fantasy and adventure genres.
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C.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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D.
John N. Pharr
John N. Pharr was a prominent landowner and developer whose influence and contributions to the region led to the Texas city of Pharr being named in his honor.
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E.
Alvin B. Phillips
Alvin B. Phillips is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Western Digital.
- 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: Joseph C. Phillips Target entity description: Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
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A.
Philip M. Landrum
Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
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B.
Frank V. Phillips
Frank V. Phillips was an American cinematographer known for his work on mid-20th-century films, particularly in the fantasy and adventure genres.
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C.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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D.
John N. Pharr
John N. Pharr was a prominent landowner and developer whose influence and contributions to the region led to the Texas city of Pharr being named in his honor.
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E.
Alvin B. Phillips
Alvin B. Phillips is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the data storage company Western Digital.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
columnist
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conservative commentator ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | United States media ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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University of Colorado Boulder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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political commentary ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | political commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.josephcphillips.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Joseph C. Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Justus Ward on General Hospital
NERFINISHED
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Lt. Martin Kendall on The Cosby Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
As the World Turns
NERFINISHED
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General Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ He Talk Like a White Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Letting Go NERFINISHED ⓘ Midnight Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Strictly Business NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cosby Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The District NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanished NERFINISHED ⓘ conservative opinion columns ⓘ guest appearances on news and talk shows ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ columnist ⓘ commentator ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservatism ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Nicole Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | He Talk Like a White Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joseph C. Phillips Description of subject: Joseph C. Phillips is an American actor and conservative commentator best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on the television sitcom "The Cosby Show."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.