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Ethan Phillips: Career, Personal life & Publications

John Ethan Phillips (born February 8, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001) and PR man Pete Downey on Benson (1979–1986). His film roles include Critters (1986) and its sequel Critters 3 (1991), as well as The Island (2005), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), and Irrational Man (2015).

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Ethan Phillips topic overview

The analysis highlights Career, Personal life and Publications as prominent areas in the source structure around Ethan Phillips.

Related topics
132
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
136
Extracted relationships
8
Concept neighborhoods
40
Bridge connections
136

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 111 topics
Personal life · 10 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Publications · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Actor
Education
Boston University (BA) Cornell University (MFA)
Born
John Ethan Phillips (1955-02-08) February 8, 1955 (age 71) Garden City, New York, U.S.
Children
3
Other name
Johnnie Phillips
Years active
1977–present

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Personal life

Career

Publications

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Ethan Phillips connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ethan Phillips shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ethan Phillips → John Ethan Phillips (1955-02-08) February 8, 1955 (age 71) Garden City, New York, U.S. Another extracted example is Ethan Phillips → 3. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ethan Phillips

Top relations

Born · 1
Ethan Phillips → John Ethan Phillips (1955-02-08) February 8, 1955 (age 71) Garden City, New York, U.S.
Children · 1
Ethan Phillips → 3
Education · 1
Ethan Phillips → Boston University (BA) Cornell University (MFA)
Occupation · 1
Ethan Phillips → Actor
Other name · 1
Ethan Phillips → Johnnie Phillips
Spouse · 1
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Years active · 1
Ethan Phillips → 1977–present
related to External links · 1
Ethan Phillips → IMDb

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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Ethan Phillips relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 8 structured relationships around Ethan Phillips. Examples in this analysis include Ethan Phillips → Born → John Ethan Phillips (1955-02-08) February 8, 1955 (age 71) Garden City, New York, U.S. and Ethan Phillips → Children → 3. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ethan PhillipsBornJohn Ethan Phillips (1955-02-08) February 8, 1955 (age 71) Garden City, New York, U.S.1.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsChildren31.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsEducationBoston University (BA) Cornell University (MFA)1.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsOccupationActor1.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsOther nameJohnnie Phillips1.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsSpouse.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marria…1.00infobox
Ethan PhillipsYears active1977–present1.00infobox
Ethan Phillipsrelated to External linksIMDb0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Ethan Phillips bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Theater, Born and John. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Performed
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    • Actor
    • American
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    • Theatre
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    • City
    • Career
    • Including
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    • Phillips
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    • Film
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    • John
    • Performed
    • Playwrights
    • Appeared
    • Ethan
    • Including
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  • new amsterdam (2018 tv series)
    • York
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    • Phillips
    • Including
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    • Theatre
    • Voyager
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    • Episode
    • Films
  • star trek: voyager
    • Neelix
    • Trek
    • Episode
    • Voyager
    • Benson
    • Star
    • Play
    • Television
    • Best
    • Roles
    • Series
    • Career
  • bloodhounds of broadway
    • Premier
    • Critters
    • Including
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    • Performed
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    • Playwrights
    • Theater
    • Include
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    • Man
  • career
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    • New
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    • Film
    • Including
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    • Boston
    • Series
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ethan Phillips, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ethan Phillips with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Ethan Phillips — Career · splits 25 ⟂ 112
Ethan Phillips — Personal life · splits 126 ⟂ 11
Ethan Phillips — Overview · splits 128 ⟂ 9
Ethan Phillips — Publications · splits 133 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ethan Phillips

Nodes137
Edges136
Triples8
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014599
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Ethan Phillips to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career, Personal life & Publications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Ethan Phillips · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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