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Ty Burrell: Works & Career

Tyler Gerald Burrell (born August 22, 1967) is an American actor. Burrell is best known for playing Phil Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Ty Burrell topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Ty Burrell.

Related topics
87
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
92
Extracted relationships
12
Concept neighborhoods
27
Bridge connections
92

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 · 36 topics
Early life and education · 22 topics
Overview · 17 topics
Personal life · 8 topics
Ventures and charity work · 4 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.

Known for
Phil Dunphy in Modern Family
Occupation
Actor
Education
Southern Oregon University (BA) · Pennsylvania State University (MFA)
Born
Tyler Gerald Burrell (1967-08-22) August 22, 1967 (age 59) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S.
Children
2
Years active
2000–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

Early life and education

Career

Ventures and charity work

Personal life

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 Ty Burrell connects Entity context

The extracted context around Ty Burrell shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ty Burrell → Pennsylvania State University (MFA), Southern Oregon University (BA) Another extracted example is Ty Burrell → Emmys, IMDb Ty Burrell. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Ty Burrell

Top relations

Education · 2
Ty Burrell → Pennsylvania State University (MFA), Southern Oregon University (BA)
related to External links · 2
Ty Burrell → Emmys, IMDb Ty Burrell
Born · 1
Ty Burrell → Tyler Gerald Burrell (1967-08-22) August 22, 1967 (age 59) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S.
Children · 1
Ty Burrell → 2
Known for · 1
Ty Burrell → Phil Dunphy in Modern Family
Occupation · 1
Ty Burrell → Actor
Spouse · 1
Ty Burrell → .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…
Years active · 1
Ty Burrell → 2000–present

Important terminology

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

Important terminology

burrell also actor family 2014 comedy series oregon modern 2008 2000 film phil 2020 two outstanding stage playing abc sitcom

Ty Burrell relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 12 structured relationships around Ty Burrell. Examples in this analysis include Ty Burrell → Born → Tyler Gerald Burrell (1967-08-22) August 22, 1967 (age 59) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S. and Ty Burrell → Children → 2. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Ty BurrellBornTyler Gerald Burrell (1967-08-22) August 22, 1967 (age 59) Grants Pass, Oregon, U.S.1.00infobox
Ty BurrellChildren21.00infobox
Ty BurrellEducationSouthern Oregon University (BA)1.00infobox
Ty BurrellEducationPennsylvania State University (MFA)1.00infobox
Ty BurrellKnown forPhil Dunphy in Modern Family1.00infobox
Ty BurrellOccupationActor1.00infobox
Ty BurrellSpouse.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
Ty BurrellYears active2000–present1.00infobox
Evolutioninstance ofand acted in films0.80text
Black Hawk Downinstance ofand acted in films0.80text
Ty Burrellrelated to External linksIMDb Ty Burrell0.60section
Ty Burrellrelated to External linksEmmys0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Ty Burrell bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Family, Oregon and Television. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Ty Burrell
    • Family
    • Oregon
    • Television
    • Lake
    • Phil
    • Salt
    • Two
    • Modern
    • Also
    • Awards
    • Dunphy
    • Playing
  • ty burrell
    • Family
    • Oregon
    • Television
    • Lake
    • Phil
    • Salt
    • Two
    • Modern
    • Also
    • Awards
    • Dunphy
    • Playing
  • primetime emmy awards for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series
    • Primetime
    • Outstanding
    • Series
    • Award
    • Comedy
    • Dunphy
    • Playing
    • Emmy
    • Phil
    • Theatre
    • Two
    • Modern
  • screen actors guild award for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series
    • Primetime
    • Series
    • Award
    • Outstanding
    • Comedy
    • Emmy
    • Dunphy
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Phil
    • Modern
    • Burrell
  • outstanding actor in a short form comedy or drama series
    • Primetime
    • Series
    • Award
    • Comedy
    • Outstanding
    • Emmy
    • Dunphy
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Phil
    • Modern
    • Burrell
  • screen actors guild awards
    • Dunphy
    • Playing
    • Phil
    • Theatre
    • Two
    • Modern
    • Education
    • Family
    • Born
    • Emmy
    • Primetime
    • Sitcom
  • the darwin awards
    • Dunphy
    • Playing
    • Phil
    • Theatre
    • Two
    • Modern
    • Education
    • Family
    • Born
    • Emmy
    • Primetime
    • Sitcom
  • modern family
    • Family
    • Modern
    • Phil
    • Comedy
    • Education
    • Oregon
    • Emmy
    • Playing
    • Primetime
    • Sitcom
    • Television
    • Burrell's

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Ty Burrell, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ty Burrell 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
Ty BurrellCareer · splits 56 ⟂ 37
Ty BurrellEarly life and education · splits 70 ⟂ 23
Ty BurrellOverview · splits 75 ⟂ 18
Ty BurrellPersonal life · splits 84 ⟂ 9
Ty BurrellVentures and charity work · splits 88 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Ty Burrell

Nodes93
Edges92
Triples12
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021505
Components1

Source & methodology

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

Source: Wikipedia — Ty Burrell · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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