Siri Doesn't Recognize Custom Phone Labels

This is a problem for all my contacts with multiple names/phone numbers.  Hopefully, you can help....
I have custom labels for my friends Jim & Kathy's Cell phones in my contacts.  One is labeled "Jim" and the other "Kathy".  Using Siri, if I say "Call Jim", I am asked if I want home, work, Jim or Kathy.  When I say "Jim", Siri responds with the same question.  It is a circular loop.  I tried "Jmobile" and "Jim Cell" for labels with the same result.  Can I teach Siri to call my phone numbers with custom labels?
Alternately, I tried using the native "mobile" labels and had their name listed after the phone number (6173454334 Jim), but Siri dials the number plus the corresponding numbers for "Jim", which my carrier rejects.
I really don't want to separate my contacts because I synchronize everything with Outlook and Outlook doesn't manage relationships like the iPhone (can't link contacts together).  This makes managing my list of friends and family more difficult than it needs to be.  Moving off of Outlook is not an option at this time (we use the Outlook calendar in an unusual way that no app has been able to replicate for us yet).
I just want to use Siri to call my contacts when I have multiple phone numbers and names in the same contact card.  Anyone know of a way to do that?  Much appreciated!

I have the same issue above. Very frustrating. Anyone have any ideas to work around this?

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