Castor Troy
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Castor Troy is the flamboyant, sadistic terrorist and master of disguise portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the action film "Face/Off."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Castor Troy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12877342 — 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: Castor Troy Context triple: [Face/Off, character, Castor Troy]
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A.
Diomed
Diomed was an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the inaugural Epsom Derby and later becoming an influential sire in American bloodlines.
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B.
Menoeceus
Menoeceus was an associate and student of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, best known as the addressee of Epicurus’ ethical treatise commonly called the "Letter to Menoeceus."
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C.
Diomedon
Diomedon was an Athenian naval commander during the Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in major late-war battles against Sparta.
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D.
Patroklos Karantinos
Patroklos Karantinos was a prominent 20th-century Greek architect known for his modernist public buildings and contributions to museum architecture in Greece.
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E.
Cleon
Cleon is the charismatic and disciplined leader of the Coney Island gang in the 1979 cult film "The Warriors."
- 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: Castor Troy Target entity description: Castor Troy is the flamboyant, sadistic terrorist and master of disguise portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the action film "Face/Off."
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A.
Diomed
Diomed was an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the inaugural Epsom Derby and later becoming an influential sire in American bloodlines.
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B.
Menoeceus
Menoeceus was an associate and student of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, best known as the addressee of Epicurus’ ethical treatise commonly called the "Letter to Menoeceus."
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C.
Diomedon
Diomedon was an Athenian naval commander during the Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in major late-war battles against Sparta.
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D.
Patroklos Karantinos
Patroklos Karantinos was a prominent 20th-century Greek architect known for his modernist public buildings and contributions to museum architecture in Greece.
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E.
Cleon
Cleon is the charismatic and disciplined leader of the Coney Island gang in the 1979 cult film "The Warriors."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ terrorist ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Face/Off NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
action
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| characteristic |
flamboyant
ⓘ
sadistic ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Michael Colleary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Werb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedBy | John Woo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disguisedAs | Sean Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Sean Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Face/Off universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Face/Off NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | action film character ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Sean Archer (after face swap) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristicItem |
gold guns
ⓘ
long black coat ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Pollux Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity
ⓘ
revenge ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| killedBy | Sean Archer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | plants a biological bomb in Los Angeles ⓘ |
| notableFor | master of disguise ⓘ |
| occupation | terrorist ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charismatic
ⓘ
narcissistic ⓘ sadistic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Nicolas Cage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | film ⓘ |
| relative | Pollux Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undergoesProcedure | face transplant surgery ⓘ |
| usesWeapon | gold-plated pistols ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | dual pistols ⓘ |
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: Castor Troy Description of subject: Castor Troy is the flamboyant, sadistic terrorist and master of disguise portrayed by Nicolas Cage in the action film "Face/Off."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.