Amos Burton
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Amos Burton is a tough, morally complex mechanic and enforcer aboard the Rocinante in the science fiction series *The Expanse*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amos Burton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9385710 — 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: Amos Burton Context triple: [The Expanse, mainCharacter, Amos Burton]
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A.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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B.
George Burnap
George Burnap was an American landscape architect known for his influential work on early 20th-century urban parks and civic spaces in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
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D.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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E.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Amos Burton Target entity description: Amos Burton is a tough, morally complex mechanic and enforcer aboard the Rocinante in the science fiction series *The Expanse*.
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A.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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B.
George Burnap
George Burnap was an American landscape architect known for his influential work on early 20th-century urban parks and civic spaces in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Nathaniel Folsom
Nathaniel Folsom was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New Hampshire who played a key role in organizing and commanding the colony’s militia forces.
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D.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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E.
Cincinnatus Powell
Cincinnatus Powell was a professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and rebounding in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
novel character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Alex Kamal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Holden NERFINISHED ⓘ Naomi Nagata NERFINISHED ⓘ Rocinante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Expanse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Expanse (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Expanse (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInBook |
Abaddon's Gate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Babylon's Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ Caliban's War NERFINISHED ⓘ Cibola Burn NERFINISHED ⓘ Leviathan Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ Leviathan Wakes NERFINISHED ⓘ Nemesis Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Persepolis Rising NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiamat's Wrath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| background |
abusive childhood
ⓘ
former criminal ⓘ |
| basedOn | Timothy (The Expanse novels) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | James S. A. Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Leviathan Wakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceTV | The Expanse, Season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Timothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeworld | Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
James Holden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Naomi Nagata NERFINISHED ⓘ crew of the Rocinante ⓘ |
| memberOf | crew of the Rocinante ⓘ |
| nationality | Earther ⓘ |
| occupation |
enforcer
ⓘ
mechanic ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
emotionally detached
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ morally complex ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Baltimore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Wes Chatham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| skill |
firearms proficiency
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hand-to-hand combat ⓘ intimidation ⓘ mechanical repair ⓘ ship maintenance ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Amos Burton Description of subject: Amos Burton is a tough, morally complex mechanic and enforcer aboard the Rocinante in the science fiction series *The Expanse*.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.