I'm not sure that I'm following you. You make a new contact and yes, it makes on in Gogle nd ilinked to the phone but you should only have the contact in the phone once, showing how many linked profiles you have, most will say two. If you have the contact entered in google more then once, for example maybe the contact is listed in google with an email address in a different area. then you have 3 contacts.
I prefer entering new contacts in Gmail myself. Then I can see how it's organized. You can also have gmail search for multiple contacts and delete additional entries.