The Tooth
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"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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tooth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316968 — 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 Context triple: [The Lottery and Other Stories, hasPart, The Tooth]
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A.
The Tooth Puller
The Tooth Puller is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts depicting a dramatic scene of a dentist extracting a patient’s tooth, rendered in a Caravaggesque style with strong chiaroscuro and expressive figures.
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B.
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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C.
Tooth of Hérens
Tooth of Hérens is a prominent alpine peak in the Pennine Alps on the Swiss–Italian border, known for its sharp, tooth-like shape and challenging mountaineering routes.
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D.
Cái Răng
Cái Răng is an urban district of Cần Thơ in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, known for its bustling floating market and river-based commerce.
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E.
Dragon's Teeth
"Dragon's Teeth" is a 1942 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Upton Sinclair that continues his Lanny Budd series, depicting the rise of Nazism in Europe.
- 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 Target entity description: "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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A.
The Tooth Puller
The Tooth Puller is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts depicting a dramatic scene of a dentist extracting a patient’s tooth, rendered in a Caravaggesque style with strong chiaroscuro and expressive figures.
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B.
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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C.
Tooth of Hérens
Tooth of Hérens is a prominent alpine peak in the Pennine Alps on the Swiss–Italian border, known for its sharp, tooth-like shape and challenging mountaineering routes.
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D.
Cái Răng
Cái Răng is an urban district of Cần Thơ in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, known for its bustling floating market and river-based commerce.
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E.
Dragon's Teeth
"Dragon's Teeth" is a 1942 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Upton Sinclair that continues his Lanny Budd series, depicting the rise of Nazism in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collection | The Lottery and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublishedIn | The Lottery and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | short fiction ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
blurred reality and hallucination
ⓘ
journey by bus ⓘ stranger encounter ⓘ toothache ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Lottery and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Gothic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Clara Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| partOf | Shirley Jackson bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Clara Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
ⓘ
a bus traveling to New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
female anxiety and domestic confinement
ⓘ
identity and self-alienation ⓘ psychological disintegration ⓘ the uncanny in everyday life ⓘ |
| tone |
uncanny
ⓘ
uneasy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Tooth Description of subject: "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.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Lottery and Other Stories