Michael Talbott
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Michael Talbott is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Stanley Switek on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Talbott canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983825 — 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 Talbott Context triple: [Miami Vice, starring, Michael Talbott]
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A.
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
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B.
Paul Syverson
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the original designers of onion routing, the privacy technology underlying the Tor anonymity network.
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C.
J. Christian Bollwage
J. Christian Bollwage is an American Democratic politician who has served for many years as the long-time mayor of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
- 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 Talbott Target entity description: Michael Talbott is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Stanley Switek on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
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A.
Robert Whitman
Robert Whitman is the husband of economist and former General Motors executive Marina von Neumann Whitman.
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B.
Paul Syverson
Paul Syverson is a computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the original designers of onion routing, the privacy technology underlying the Tor anonymity network.
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C.
J. Christian Bollwage
J. Christian Bollwage is an American Democratic politician who has served for many years as the long-time mayor of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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D.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1980s television ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Don Johnson
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Edward James Olmos ⓘ Philip Michael Thomas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Talbott ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Detective Stanley Switek on Miami Vice ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Michael Talbott ⓘ |
| notableEra | 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Miami Vice (TV series) ⓘ |
| role | Detective Stanley Switek ⓘ |
| 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 Talbott Description of subject: Michael Talbott is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Stanley Switek on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.