William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait
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William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait is the nerdy, revenge-plotting high school student who undergoes a comedic transformation over the course of the teen party film.
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| William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19518967 — 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: William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait Context triple: [Charlie Korsmo, notableRole, William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait]
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Jim Baker in Sixteen Candles
Jim Baker in "Sixteen Candles" is the well-meaning but oblivious father of protagonist Samantha Baker in the 1984 coming-of-age comedy film.
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B.
Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
Joe Gideon in *All That Jazz* is a driven, self-destructive Broadway director and choreographer whose frenetic work and personal excesses push him toward a surreal confrontation with his own mortality.
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C.
Shelly Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross
Shelly Levene in *Glengarry Glen Ross* is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose struggle to reclaim his former success embodies the play’s themes of pressure, failure, and moral compromise in high-stakes sales.
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D.
Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde
Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde refers to the American actor’s portrayal of a charming, streetwise self-made millionaire playboy in the 1970s British television series "The Persuaders!".
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E.
Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces
Rayette Dipesto in "Five Easy Pieces" is a vulnerable, working-class waitress and the emotionally needy girlfriend of Jack Nicholson’s character, portrayed with poignant complexity by Karen Black.
- 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: William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait Target entity description: William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait is the nerdy, revenge-plotting high school student who undergoes a comedic transformation over the course of the teen party film.
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A.
Jim Baker in Sixteen Candles
Jim Baker in "Sixteen Candles" is the well-meaning but oblivious father of protagonist Samantha Baker in the 1984 coming-of-age comedy film.
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B.
Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
Joe Gideon in *All That Jazz* is a driven, self-destructive Broadway director and choreographer whose frenetic work and personal excesses push him toward a surreal confrontation with his own mortality.
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C.
Shelly Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross
Shelly Levene in *Glengarry Glen Ross* is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose struggle to reclaim his former success embodies the play’s themes of pressure, failure, and moral compromise in high-stakes sales.
-
D.
Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde
Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde refers to the American actor’s portrayal of a charming, streetwise self-made millionaire playboy in the 1970s British television series "The Persuaders!".
-
E.
Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces
Rayette Dipesto in "Five Easy Pieces" is a vulnerable, working-class waitress and the emotionally needy girlfriend of Jack Nicholson’s character, portrayed with poignant complexity by Karen Black.
- F. None of above. chosen
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