Michael Steadman
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Michael Steadman is a central character on the television drama "thirtysomething," portrayed as a sensitive, idealistic young professional navigating marriage, career, and adulthood in the late 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Steadman canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6152992 — 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 Steadman Context triple: [thirtysomething, featuresCharacter, Michael Steadman]
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A.
Max Stenner
Max Stenner is a fictional character appearing in the work "The Silence."
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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D.
Andrew Stroud
Andrew Stroud was a New York City police detective and later the manager and husband of legendary singer and pianist Nina Simone.
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E.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
- 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 Steadman Target entity description: Michael Steadman is a central character on the television drama "thirtysomething," portrayed as a sensitive, idealistic young professional navigating marriage, career, and adulthood in the late 1980s.
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A.
Max Stenner
Max Stenner is a fictional character appearing in the work "The Silence."
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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D.
Andrew Stroud
Andrew Stroud was a New York City police detective and later the manager and husband of legendary singer and pianist Nina Simone.
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E.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | thirtysomething ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
idealistic
ⓘ
sensitive ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Edward Zwick
ⓘ
Marshall Herskovitz ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseTimePeriod | late 1980s ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
thirtysomething season 1
ⓘ
linked to:
thirtysomething
|
| genreOfWork | television drama ⓘ |
| hasChild | Janey Steadman ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Elliot Weston
ⓘ
Gary Shepherd ⓘ Melissa Steadman ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| networkOfWork | ABC ⓘ |
| occupation | advertising professional ⓘ |
| partOfEnsemble | group of baby boomer friends in thirtysomething ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ken Olin ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Melissa Steadman ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| spouse | Hope Murdoch Steadman ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
adulthood responsibilities
ⓘ
balancing marriage and career ⓘ |
| themeInStory |
marital conflict
ⓘ
parenthood ⓘ work–life balance ⓘ |
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 Steadman Description of subject: Michael Steadman is a central character on the television drama "thirtysomething," portrayed as a sensitive, idealistic young professional navigating marriage, career, and adulthood in the late 1980s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.