Sean Archer
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Sean Archer is the dedicated FBI agent and grieving father portrayed by John Travolta in the action film "Face/Off," who undergoes a radical face-swapping procedure to stop his nemesis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Archer canonical | 8 |
| Sean Archer (after face swap) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12877341 — 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)
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Target entity: Sean Archer Context triple: [Face/Off, character, Sean Archer]
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A.
Michael Archer
Michael Archer is an Australian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist known for his research on marsupials and other Australasian mammals.
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B.
Jeremy Carver
Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
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C.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
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D.
Ben Starling
Ben Starling is a character in John Green’s novel "Paper Towns," known as one of Quentin Jacobsen’s loyal and humorous best friends.
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E.
Charlie Simms
Charlie Simms is the conscientious and financially struggling prep-school student who serves as the moral center and primary protagonist alongside Al Pacino’s character in the film "Scent of a Woman."
- 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: Sean Archer Target entity description: Sean Archer is the dedicated FBI agent and grieving father portrayed by John Travolta in the action film "Face/Off," who undergoes a radical face-swapping procedure to stop his nemesis.
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A.
Michael Archer
Michael Archer is an Australian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist known for his research on marsupials and other Australasian mammals.
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B.
Jeremy Carver
Jeremy Carver is a television writer and producer best known for his work on genre series such as Supernatural and for serving as showrunner on DC's Doom Patrol.
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C.
Alex Datcher
Alex Datcher is an American actress best known for her role as a flight attendant alongside Wesley Snipes in the 1992 action film "Passenger 57."
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D.
Ben Starling
Ben Starling is a character in John Green’s novel "Paper Towns," known as one of Quentin Jacobsen’s loyal and humorous best friends.
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E.
Charlie Simms
Charlie Simms is the conscientious and financially struggling prep-school student who serves as the moral center and primary protagonist alongside Al Pacino’s character in the film "Scent of a Woman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
FBI counter-terrorism unit
ⓘ
linked to:
FBI Counterterrorism Division
|
| antagonistOf | Castor Troy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Face/Off ⓘ |
| child |
Adam (Castor Troy's son, later adopted)
ⓘ
Michael Archer ⓘ |
| createdFor | Face/Off ⓘ |
| creator |
Michael Colleary
ⓘ
Mike Werb ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| enemy | Castor Troy ⓘ |
| familyMember |
Adam (adopted)
ⓘ
Eve Archer ⓘ Michael Archer ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Face/Off universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Face/Off
|
| filmDirector | John Woo ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
action
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Face/Off (1997 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Face/Off
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| motivation |
avenge his son's death
ⓘ
stop a terrorist attack ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableScene |
airport chase with Castor Troy
ⓘ
church shootout ⓘ prison escape from Erewhon ⓘ |
| occupation | FBI agent ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
dedicated
ⓘ
determined ⓘ grieving ⓘ |
| portrayalNote |
Cage plays Troy in his own body and Archer-as-Troy after the face swap
ⓘ
Travolta plays Archer in his own body and Cage-as-Archer after the face swap ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
John Travolta
ⓘ
Nicolas Cage ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse | Eve Archer ⓘ |
| undergoesProcedure |
face transplant
ⓘ
identity swap with Castor Troy ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | handgun ⓘ |
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: Sean Archer Description of subject: Sean Archer is the dedicated FBI agent and grieving father portrayed by John Travolta in the action film "Face/Off," who undergoes a radical face-swapping procedure to stop his nemesis.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sean Archer