Layer Cake (novel)
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Layer Cake (novel) is a 2000 British crime thriller by J.J. Connolly that follows an unnamed London cocaine dealer navigating the dangerous criminal underworld as he plans to retire from the drug trade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Layer Cake | 1 |
| Layer Cake (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651538 — 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: Layer Cake (novel) Context triple: [Layer Cake, basedOn, Layer Cake (novel)]
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A.
The Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl is an 18th-century pastel painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard depicting a maidservant carrying a tray with a cup of chocolate, celebrated for its delicate realism and luminous detail.
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B.
The Malloys
The Malloys are a directing duo known for their influential and stylish music videos and commercials.
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C.
A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Cake
A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Cake is a humorous work by American writer Max Shulman, known for his lighthearted, satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
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D.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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E.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
- 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: Layer Cake (novel) Target entity description: Layer Cake (novel) is a 2000 British crime thriller by J.J. Connolly that follows an unnamed London cocaine dealer navigating the dangerous criminal underworld as he plans to retire from the drug trade.
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A.
The Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl is an 18th-century pastel painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard depicting a maidservant carrying a tray with a cup of chocolate, celebrated for its delicate realism and luminous detail.
-
B.
The Malloys
The Malloys are a directing duo known for their influential and stylish music videos and commercials.
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C.
A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Cake
A Cup of Tea and a Slice of Cake is a humorous work by American writer Max Shulman, known for his lighthearted, satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
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D.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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E.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British novel
ⓘ
crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ thriller novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Layer Cake (film)
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linked to:
Layer Cake
|
| author | J. J. Connolly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtFeatures | urban imagery ⓘ |
| depicts |
London criminal underworld
ⓘ
cocaine trafficking ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Matthew Vaughn ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationScreenwriter | J. J. Connolly ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
gangster fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0715630249 ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeTone |
darkly comic
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gritty ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Viva La Madness ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
ambition
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betrayal ⓘ drug trade ⓘ organized crime ⓘ retirement from crime ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary British crime fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | hardboiled ⓘ |
| mainCharacterGoal | to retire from the drug trade ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | drug dealer ⓘ |
| market | adult fiction ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of layered criminal hierarchies
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use of an unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| protagonist | unnamed cocaine dealer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2000 ⓘ |
| publisher | Duckworth Press ⓘ |
| setIn |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo |
layers of the criminal underworld
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social hierarchy in crime and business ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Layer Cake (novel) Description of subject: Layer Cake (novel) is a 2000 British crime thriller by J.J. Connolly that follows an unnamed London cocaine dealer navigating the dangerous criminal underworld as he plans to retire from the drug trade.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Layer Cake (novel)