Michael Westen
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Michael Westen is the resourceful former spy and main protagonist of the television series "Burn Notice," known for using his intelligence and tradecraft to help people while investigating why he was blacklisted.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Westen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7071743 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Westen Context triple: [Jeffrey Donovan, characterPortrayed, Michael Westen]
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A.
John Reese
John Reese is a former CIA operative turned vigilante protagonist in the television series "Person of Interest," known for using his elite combat and surveillance skills to prevent violent crimes.
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B.
Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer is the relentless and resourceful counterterrorism agent who serves as the central protagonist of the television series "24."
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C.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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D.
John Clark
John Clark is a jazz French horn player best known for his work in fusion and contemporary jazz ensembles, including his tenure with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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E.
Don Gately
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Westen Target entity description: Michael Westen is the resourceful former spy and main protagonist of the television series "Burn Notice," known for using his intelligence and tradecraft to help people while investigating why he was blacklisted.
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A.
John Reese
John Reese is a former CIA operative turned vigilante protagonist in the television series "Person of Interest," known for using his elite combat and surveillance skills to prevent violent crimes.
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B.
Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer is the relentless and resourceful counterterrorism agent who serves as the central protagonist of the television series "24."
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C.
Clovis Cole
Clovis Cole was a prominent 19th-century wheat farmer and landowner in California whose holdings and influence in the region led to the nearby city of Clovis being named in his honor.
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D.
John Clark
John Clark is a jazz French horn player best known for his work in fusion and contemporary jazz ensembles, including his tenure with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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E.
Don Gately
Don Gately is a central character in David Foster Wallace’s novel "Infinite Jest," a former Demerol addict and ex-burglar who works as a live-in staffer at a Boston halfway house and struggles toward sobriety and moral responsibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Central Intelligence Agency (former)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Special Forces (backstory, implied) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Burn Notice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baseOfOperations | Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriend |
Jesse Porter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sam Axe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Matt Nix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Madeline Westen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nate Westen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Burn Notice universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Burn Notice season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 2007-06-28 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | CIA operative ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action drama
ⓘ
spy fiction ⓘ |
| homeCity | Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping people in trouble
ⓘ
improvisational tradecraft ⓘ investigating his burn notice ⓘ resourcefulness ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Burn Notice series finale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAppearanceDate | 2013-09-12 ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOf | Burn Notice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrates | Burn Notice episodes (voice-over) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | USA Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence operative
ⓘ
spy ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
analytical
ⓘ
pragmatic ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jeffrey Donovan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationship | Fiona Glenanne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipType | romantic partner of Fiona Glenanne ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| signatureFeature | instructional voice-over explaining spy techniques ⓘ |
| skill |
counterintelligence
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covert operations ⓘ disguise ⓘ explosives ⓘ firearms proficiency ⓘ hand-to-hand combat ⓘ social engineering ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| storyArc | blacklisted by U.S. intelligence agencies ⓘ |
| vehicleOfChoice | 1973 Dodge Charger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Michael Westen Description of subject: Michael Westen is the resourceful former spy and main protagonist of the television series "Burn Notice," known for using his intelligence and tradecraft to help people while investigating why he was blacklisted.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.