The Tooth Fairy
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The Tooth Fairy is a fictional serial killer from Thomas Harris's novel "Red Dragon," known for his ritualistic murders and obsession with transformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tooth Fairy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14722951 — 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: The Tooth Fairy Context triple: [Francis Dolarhyde, nickname, The Tooth Fairy]
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A.
Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy is a mythical figure from Western folklore who is said to visit children at night to exchange their lost baby teeth, placed under a pillow, for money or small gifts.
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B.
The Tooth
"The Tooth" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that blends psychological unease with elements of the uncanny.
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C.
Night Teeth
Night Teeth is a 2021 Netflix horror-thriller film about a college student who becomes entangled with vampires during a night of chauffeuring mysterious women around Los Angeles.
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D.
White Tooth
White Tooth is the English meaning of the name "Dent Blanche," a prominent mountain in the Pennine Alps of Switzerland.
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is the English title of Menander’s ancient Greek comedy "Dyskolos," a play centered on a misanthropic old man whose gruff nature disrupts and ultimately yields to the social harmony around him.
- 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: The Tooth Fairy Target entity description: The Tooth Fairy is a fictional serial killer from Thomas Harris's novel "Red Dragon," known for his ritualistic murders and obsession with transformation.
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A.
Tooth Fairy
The Tooth Fairy is a mythical figure from Western folklore who is said to visit children at night to exchange their lost baby teeth, placed under a pillow, for money or small gifts.
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B.
The Tooth
"The Tooth" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that blends psychological unease with elements of the uncanny.
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C.
Night Teeth
Night Teeth is a 2021 Netflix horror-thriller film about a college student who becomes entangled with vampires during a night of chauffeuring mysterious women around Los Angeles.
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D.
White Tooth
White Tooth is the English meaning of the name "Dent Blanche," a prominent mountain in the Pennine Alps of Switzerland.
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is the English title of Menander’s ancient Greek comedy "Dyskolos," a play centered on a misanthropic old man whose gruff nature disrupts and ultimately yields to the social harmony around him.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.