Tooth Fairy
E137190
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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tooth Fairy canonical | 4 |
| The Tooth Fairy | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1193348 — 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: Tooth Fairy Context triple: [Mark Ciardi, notableWork, Tooth Fairy]
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A.
Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, typically depicted as a rabbit that brings and hides decorated eggs for children to find.
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B.
Dora Riparia
Dora Riparia is a river in northwestern Italy that flows through the city of Turin before joining the Po River.
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C.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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D.
Rachel the Piggy Bank
Rachel the Piggy Bank is a life-sized bronze piggy bank sculpture and popular photo spot that serves as the mascot and charitable donation box at Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
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E.
Unicorn
Unicorn was a prominent warship of the Royal Scots Navy, remembered as one of its most significant and historic vessels.
- 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: Tooth Fairy Target entity description: 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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A.
Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, typically depicted as a rabbit that brings and hides decorated eggs for children to find.
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B.
Dora Riparia
Dora Riparia is a river in northwestern Italy that flows through the city of Turin before joining the Po River.
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C.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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D.
Rachel the Piggy Bank
Rachel the Piggy Bank is a life-sized bronze piggy bank sculpture and popular photo spot that serves as the mascot and charitable donation box at Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
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E.
Unicorn
Unicorn was a prominent warship of the Royal Scots Navy, remembered as one of its most significant and historic vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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folklore character ⓘ legendary creature ⓘ mythical being ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
children's books
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films ⓘ television shows ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
baby teeth
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childhood rituals ⓘ children ⓘ losing teeth ⓘ |
| beliefCommunicatedThrough |
bedtime stories
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family traditions ⓘ |
| beliefEncouragedBy | parents ⓘ |
| comparedTo |
Easter Bunny
ⓘ
Santa Claus ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | tooth mouse traditions in some European countries ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | Western culture ⓘ |
| currencyGiven |
coins
ⓘ
paper money ⓘ |
| exchangeFor |
money
ⓘ
small gifts ⓘ |
| hasConceptualRole |
comforting figure
ⓘ
reward figure ⓘ rite of passage figure ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
Western folklore
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children's folklore ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFunction |
eases anxiety about tooth loss
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encourages belief in magic ⓘ marks growing up ⓘ |
| hasNoCanonicalAppearance | true ⓘ |
| motivates |
comfort about losing teeth
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dental hygiene in children ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs |
female figure
ⓘ
small winged fairy ⓘ |
| performsAction |
collects lost baby teeth
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leaves money ⓘ leaves small gifts ⓘ |
| presentIn |
Australian folklore
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British folklore ⓘ Canadian folklore ⓘ New Zealand folklore ⓘ United States folklore ⓘ other English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| relatedBelief |
reward for bravery
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tooth-placing rituals ⓘ |
| targetAgeGroup | young children ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | night ⓘ |
| typicalLocationOfAction | child's bedroom ⓘ |
| typicalLocationOfTooth | under pillow ⓘ |
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: Tooth Fairy Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Tooth Fairy
this entity surface form:
The Tooth Fairy