The Dryad’s Shoe
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"The Dryad’s Shoe" is a fantasy short story by T. Kingfisher that reimagines fairy-tale motifs with her characteristic blend of wit, emotional depth, and folkloric charm.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Dryad’s Shoe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22874425 — 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 Dryad’s Shoe Context triple: [Jackalope Wives and Other Stories, containsWork, The Dryad’s Shoe]
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A.
King of the Fairies
King of the Fairies is the regal ruler of the fairy realm in folklore and literature, most famously depicted as Oberon in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*.
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B.
Lady of the Golden Wood
Lady of the Golden Wood is the honorific title of Galadriel, the powerful and wise Elven ruler of Lothlórien in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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C.
The Fairy
"The Fairy" is one of the classic short tales included in Charles Perrault’s influential fairy-tale collection *Tales of Mother Goose*.
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D.
The Fairy of the Dawn
"The Fairy of the Dawn" is a Romanian fairy tale best known from Andrew Lang’s collections, featuring a heroic quest, magical beings, and trials to rescue a princess from an otherworldly realm.
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E.
The Mirror in the Well
The Mirror in the Well is a psychologically intense, experimental novel by Micheline Aharonian Marcom that explores female desire, memory, and emotional breakdown through lyrical, fragmented prose.
- 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 Dryad’s Shoe Target entity description: "The Dryad’s Shoe" is a fantasy short story by T. Kingfisher that reimagines fairy-tale motifs with her characteristic blend of wit, emotional depth, and folkloric charm.
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A.
King of the Fairies
King of the Fairies is the regal ruler of the fairy realm in folklore and literature, most famously depicted as Oberon in Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*.
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B.
Lady of the Golden Wood
Lady of the Golden Wood is the honorific title of Galadriel, the powerful and wise Elven ruler of Lothlórien in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.
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C.
The Fairy
"The Fairy" is one of the classic short tales included in Charles Perrault’s influential fairy-tale collection *Tales of Mother Goose*.
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D.
The Fairy of the Dawn
"The Fairy of the Dawn" is a Romanian fairy tale best known from Andrew Lang’s collections, featuring a heroic quest, magical beings, and trials to rescue a princess from an otherworldly realm.
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E.
The Mirror in the Well
The Mirror in the Well is a psychologically intense, experimental novel by Micheline Aharonian Marcom that explores female desire, memory, and emotional breakdown through lyrical, fragmented prose.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.