The Second Bakery Attack
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The Second Bakery Attack is a surreal short story by Haruki Murakami that follows a newlywed couple compelled to "rob" a McDonald’s in the middle of the night to break a mysterious curse.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Second Bakery Attack canonical | 2 |
| The Second Bakery Attack (short film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11132384 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Second Bakery Attack Context triple: [Gonzalo García Barcha, notableWork, The Second Bakery Attack]
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A.
Phoenix Park Murders
The Phoenix Park Murders were a notorious 1882 political assassination in Dublin, Ireland, in which senior British officials were killed by members of the Irish National Invincibles, intensifying tensions in the struggle over Irish self-government.
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B.
The Siege of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street is a 1960 British crime film dramatizing the infamous 1911 London gunfight between police and Latvian anarchists in the East End.
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C.
The Sandwich Man
The Sandwich Man is a British comedy film written by and starring Michael Bentine, following a London sandwich-board man who encounters a series of humorous characters and situations.
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D.
The Butcher's Shop
The Butcher's Shop is a late 16th-century genre painting by Annibale Carracci that vividly depicts working butchers in a realistic, everyday scene, reflecting the artist’s interest in naturalism and ordinary life.
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E.
House with the Heads
House with the Heads is a historic canal house in Amsterdam, renowned for its ornate façade adorned with sculpted heads and its significance in the city’s architectural heritage.
- 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 Second Bakery Attack Target entity description: The Second Bakery Attack is a surreal short story by Haruki Murakami that follows a newlywed couple compelled to "rob" a McDonald’s in the middle of the night to break a mysterious curse.
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A.
Phoenix Park Murders
The Phoenix Park Murders were a notorious 1882 political assassination in Dublin, Ireland, in which senior British officials were killed by members of the Irish National Invincibles, intensifying tensions in the struggle over Irish self-government.
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B.
The Siege of Sidney Street
The Siege of Sidney Street is a 1960 British crime film dramatizing the infamous 1911 London gunfight between police and Latvian anarchists in the East End.
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C.
The Sandwich Man
The Sandwich Man is a British comedy film written by and starring Michael Bentine, following a London sandwich-board man who encounters a series of humorous characters and situations.
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D.
The Butcher's Shop
The Butcher's Shop is a late 16th-century genre painting by Annibale Carracci that vividly depicts working butchers in a realistic, everyday scene, reflecting the artist’s interest in naturalism and ordinary life.
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E.
House with the Heads
House with the Heads is a historic canal house in Amsterdam, renowned for its ornate façade adorned with sculpted heads and its significance in the city’s architectural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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short story ⓘ |
| adaptationDirector | Carlos Cuarón ⓘ |
| adaptationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | film ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| adaptationStars |
Brian Geraghty
ⓘ
Kirsten Dunst ⓘ |
| author | Haruki Murakami ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Japanese ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
coincidence
ⓘ
food ⓘ repetition of past events ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| genre |
magical realism
ⓘ
surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Second Bakery Attack (short film)
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linked to:
The Second Bakery Attack
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| includedIn | collections of Haruki Murakami short stories ⓘ |
| languageOfAvailableTranslation |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
blend of mundane and fantastical elements
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deadpan narration ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
narrator’s wife
ⓘ
unnamed male narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| plotElement |
attempt to break a mysterious curse
ⓘ
compulsion to commit a symbolic robbery ⓘ late-night fast-food robbery ⓘ |
| protagonistRelationshipStatus | newlywed ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Bakery Attack ⓘ |
| setting |
McDonald’s restaurant
ⓘ
linked to:
McDonald’s
Tokyo ⓘ |
| theme |
curse
ⓘ
fate ⓘ hunger ⓘ marriage ⓘ surrealism in everyday life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: The Second Bakery Attack Description of subject: The Second Bakery Attack is a surreal short story by Haruki Murakami that follows a newlywed couple compelled to "rob" a McDonald’s in the middle of the night to break a mysterious curse.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Second Bakery Attack