The Tooth of Crime
E231457
The Tooth of Crime is a 1972 avant-garde play by Sam Shepard that blends rock music, futuristic slang, and stylized violence in a surreal exploration of fame, power, and rivalry.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tooth of Crime canonical | 2 |
| The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance | 2 |
| Tooth of Crime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081328 — 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 of Crime Context triple: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, The Tooth of Crime]
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A.
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
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B.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic Sherlock Holmes detective novel that blends mystery with Gothic horror on the misty moors of Devon.
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C.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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D.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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E.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie, featuring detective Hercule Poirot investigating a complex murder aboard a luxurious European train.
- 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 of Crime Target entity description: The Tooth of Crime is a 1972 avant-garde play by Sam Shepard that blends rock music, futuristic slang, and stylized violence in a surreal exploration of fame, power, and rivalry.
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A.
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is a Sherlock Holmes detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle that centers on a mysterious murder linked to a secret society and a dark past in the American coalfields.
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B.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic Sherlock Holmes detective novel that blends mystery with Gothic horror on the misty moors of Devon.
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C.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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D.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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E.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie, featuring detective Hercule Poirot investigating a complex murder aboard a luxurious European train.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
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stage work ⓘ |
| author | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| characterType |
challenger
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rock star ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | two-act play ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde theatre
ⓘ
drama ⓘ experimental play ⓘ rock theatre ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Tooth of Crime
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance
|
| hasVersion |
The Tooth of Crime
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance
|
| literaryPeriod | late 20th-century American drama ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
fame
ⓘ
power ⓘ rivalry ⓘ |
| movement | American avant-garde theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | surreal exploration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of rock music into drama
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invented futuristic slang ⓘ stylized stage violence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Sam Shepard plays ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| setting | near-future world ⓘ |
| style |
expressionism
ⓘ
surrealism ⓘ |
| subject |
celebrity culture
ⓘ
competition ⓘ music industry ⓘ |
| usesElement |
futuristic slang
ⓘ
rock music ⓘ stylized violence ⓘ |
| writer | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1972 ⓘ |
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: The Tooth of Crime Description of subject: The Tooth of Crime is a 1972 avant-garde play by Sam Shepard that blends rock music, futuristic slang, and stylized violence in a surreal exploration of fame, power, and rivalry.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tooth of Crime
this entity surface form:
The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance
this entity surface form:
The Tooth of Crime: Second Dance