Richard Sherman (character in the stage play The Seven Year Itch)
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Richard Sherman is the middle-aged, married Manhattan publishing executive whose comic fantasies and temptation during his wife's summer absence drive the plot of the stage play *The Seven Year Itch*.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17688003 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Sherman (character in the stage play The Seven Year Itch) Context triple: [Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman, basedOn, Richard Sherman (character in the stage play The Seven Year Itch)]
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A.
Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls"
Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls" is a suave, high-stakes gambler whose romantic entanglement with the pious Sarah Brown drives much of the musical’s plot and character development.
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B.
Paul Varjak in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Paul Varjak in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a struggling writer and the romantic interest of Holly Golightly, whose evolving relationship with her forms the emotional core of the story.
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C.
Sally Cato in Auntie Mame
Sally Cato in *Auntie Mame* is a snobbish, socially ambitious Southern relative who serves as a comic antagonist to the free-spirited Mame.
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D.
Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire
Mitch in *A Streetcar Named Desire* is a sensitive, lonely bachelor who becomes Blanche DuBois’s hopeful suitor, embodying the play’s themes of desire, illusion, and disillusionment.
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E.
Mr. Robinson in The Graduate
Mr. Robinson in *The Graduate* is the affluent, unsuspecting husband whose wife’s affair with young Benjamin Braddock helps drive the film’s central conflict and themes of disillusionment.
- 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: Richard Sherman (character in the stage play The Seven Year Itch) Target entity description: Richard Sherman is the middle-aged, married Manhattan publishing executive whose comic fantasies and temptation during his wife's summer absence drive the plot of the stage play *The Seven Year Itch*.
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A.
Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls"
Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls" is a suave, high-stakes gambler whose romantic entanglement with the pious Sarah Brown drives much of the musical’s plot and character development.
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B.
Paul Varjak in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Paul Varjak in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a struggling writer and the romantic interest of Holly Golightly, whose evolving relationship with her forms the emotional core of the story.
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C.
Sally Cato in Auntie Mame
Sally Cato in *Auntie Mame* is a snobbish, socially ambitious Southern relative who serves as a comic antagonist to the free-spirited Mame.
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D.
Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire
Mitch in *A Streetcar Named Desire* is a sensitive, lonely bachelor who becomes Blanche DuBois’s hopeful suitor, embodying the play’s themes of desire, illusion, and disillusionment.
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E.
Mr. Robinson in The Graduate
Mr. Robinson in *The Graduate* is the affluent, unsuspecting husband whose wife’s affair with young Benjamin Braddock helps drive the film’s central conflict and themes of disillusionment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman
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basedOn
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Richard Sherman (character in the stage play The Seven Year Itch)
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