Richard Sherman
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Richard Sherman is the middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive and protagonist of the film and play "The Seven Year Itch," whose wandering eye and comic fantasies are sparked when a beautiful neighbor moves into his building.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Sherman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4446713 — 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: Richard Sherman Context triple: [The Seven Year Itch, mainCharacter, Richard Sherman]
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A.
Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman is an American former NFL cornerback best known as a key member of the Seattle Seahawks' "Legion of Boom" defense and a Super Bowl champion.
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B.
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler is an American football cornerback best known for his game-winning goal-line interception for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
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C.
DeMeco Ryans
DeMeco Ryans is a former NFL linebacker who became a highly regarded defensive coach and is now an NFL head coach.
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D.
Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated feature "Brave."
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E.
Michael Singletary
Michael Singletary is a former American football linebacker and Hall of Famer best known for his dominant defensive play with the Chicago Bears in the 1980s and later work as a coach.
- 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 Target entity description: Richard Sherman is the middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive and protagonist of the film and play "The Seven Year Itch," whose wandering eye and comic fantasies are sparked when a beautiful neighbor moves into his building.
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A.
Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman is an American former NFL cornerback best known as a key member of the Seattle Seahawks' "Legion of Boom" defense and a Super Bowl champion.
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B.
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler is an American football cornerback best known for his game-winning goal-line interception for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
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C.
DeMeco Ryans
DeMeco Ryans is a former NFL linebacker who became a highly regarded defensive coach and is now an NFL head coach.
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D.
Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews is an American filmmaker best known for co-directing Pixar’s Academy Award–winning animated feature "Brave."
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E.
Michael Singletary
Michael Singletary is a former American football linebacker and Hall of Famer best known for his dominant defensive play with the Chicago Bears in the 1980s and later work as a coach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ theatre character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Seven Year Itch (1955 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch (play) ⓘ
linked to:
The Seven Year Itch
|
| creator | George Axelrod ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ricky Sherman ⓘ |
| hasNeighbor | The Girl ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Helen Sherman ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| neighborDescription | beautiful young woman living upstairs ⓘ |
| notablePlotElement |
develops an attraction to his upstairs neighbor
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experiences a midlife crisis ⓘ has elaborate romantic fantasies ⓘ struggles with temptation during his family’s summer vacation ⓘ |
| occupation | publishing executive ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
anxious
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imaginative ⓘ neurotic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Ewell ⓘ |
| residence |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| setting |
1950s
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New York City ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
male fantasy
ⓘ
marital fidelity ⓘ midlife anxiety ⓘ |
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: Richard Sherman Description of subject: Richard Sherman is the middle-aged Manhattan publishing executive and protagonist of the film and play "The Seven Year Itch," whose wandering eye and comic fantasies are sparked when a beautiful neighbor moves into his building.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.