Sweet Tooth
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Sweet Tooth is a 2012 espionage novel by Ian McEwan that blends Cold War spy intrigue with a metafictional love story set in 1970s Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sweet Tooth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5008130 — 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: Sweet Tooth Context triple: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Sweet Tooth]
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A.
Jawbreaker
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B.
Jawbreaker
"Jawbreaker" is a 1999 dark comedy film about a high school clique whose cruel birthday prank accidentally kills their friend, leading to blackmail, cover-ups, and social chaos.
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C.
Sugar on a Stick
Sugar on a Stick is a portable, USB-based distribution of the Sugar learning environment designed to provide children with an easy, bootable educational platform.
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D.
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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E.
Devil's Pie
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- 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: Sweet Tooth Target entity description: Sweet Tooth is a 2012 espionage novel by Ian McEwan that blends Cold War spy intrigue with a metafictional love story set in 1970s Britain.
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A.
Jawbreaker
Jawbreaker is an influential American punk rock band known for its emotionally charged lyrics and key role in shaping the 1990s emo and punk scenes.
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B.
Jawbreaker
"Jawbreaker" is a 1999 dark comedy film about a high school clique whose cruel birthday prank accidentally kills their friend, leading to blackmail, cover-ups, and social chaos.
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C.
Sugar on a Stick
Sugar on a Stick is a portable, USB-based distribution of the Sugar learning environment designed to provide children with an easy, bootable educational platform.
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D.
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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E.
Devil's Pie
"Devil's Pie" is a soulful, funk-infused track by American R&B artist D'Angelo, known for its gritty social commentary and production by DJ Premier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
espionage novel
ⓘ
metafictional novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian McEwan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Children Act ⓘ |
| genre |
espionage fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ metafiction ⓘ spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Serena Frome
ⓘ
Tom Haley ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780224097371 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century British literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Serena Frome ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrationType | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending spy novel with metafictional love story
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depiction of British intelligence in the 1970s ⓘ |
| partOf | Ian McEwan bibliography ⓘ |
| plotElement |
Cold War espionage
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MI5 recruitment ⓘ covert literary funding operation ⓘ metafictional twist ⓘ romantic relationship between agent and writer ⓘ |
| precededBy | Solar ⓘ |
| protagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Britain
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linked to:
Great Britain
London ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1970s ⓘ |
| theme |
Cold War politics
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betrayal ⓘ deception ⓘ gender and power ⓘ literature and propaganda ⓘ love ⓘ truth and fiction ⓘ |
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: Sweet Tooth Description of subject: Sweet Tooth is a 2012 espionage novel by Ian McEwan that blends Cold War spy intrigue with a metafictional love story set in 1970s Britain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.