When to use qualified lookup table?

Hi all,
I am confused with the qualified lookup table and lookup table, for the situation that a company has more than one contact person, I created a table "contact person", which has following fields: first name, last name, phone number, email address.
Questions:
1. should I set "contact person" as a lookup table or qualified lookup table?
2. if to be set as qualified lookup table, which field should be qualifier field? what is the difference between qualifier field and non-qualifier field?
your reply will be very appreciable
Bin

At times data is stored in such a way that duplication is unavoidable due to the storing mechanism and other factors. It may also happen that the data is sparse. The efficient way of storing data in such scenarios is the use of Qualified tables as it reduces the size of the main table and removes the unnecessarily created duplicates.
Check the foll links
/people/pooja.khandelwal2/blog/2006/03/29/taming-the-animal--qualified-tables
/people/avi.rokach/blog/2006/11/14/using-mdm-55-for-data-quality-analysis
MDM data modelling guide
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5d4211fa-0301-0010-9fb1-ef1fd91719b6
How to import Qualified tables.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/abe914fa-0301-0010-7bb1-d25c2a4bb655
Also this one.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/792f57b7-0a01-0010-f3b6-881269136a83
Please reward for the same.

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Maybe the answer comes late but i'm recently working on this and the API works for me to create and update qualifier values.
Suppose recordMain is the main record, fldQFT is the qualified lookup field in main table, fldQualifier is the qualifier field in QFT table.
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[email protected]

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Here I am struggling that how to lookup hieararchy table value in qualified lookup table(Post_and_Location). How can I achieve this?.Please help me.
I am more happy to give more information regarding this, if anybody needs.
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