The Tinker and the Crab
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"The Tinker and the Crab" is a gentle, whimsical song by Donovan that tells a moral fable about kindness and understanding through the encounter between an inventive tinker and a crab.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tinker and the Crab canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18601401 — 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 Tinker and the Crab Context triple: [A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, containsSong, The Tinker and the Crab]
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A.
The Crab That Played with the Sea
"The Crab That Played with the Sea" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical Just So Stories, telling a myth-like tale that explains how the sea’s tides and a once-powerful crab came to be as they are.
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B.
The Crab Pot
The Crab Pot is a popular Seattle waterfront seafood restaurant known for its casual atmosphere and signature “seafeast” crab and shellfish boils served family-style on paper-covered tables.
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C.
The Tinker’s Wedding
The Tinker’s Wedding is a one-act comedic play by Irish dramatist J. M. Synge that satirizes rural Irish life and social attitudes toward marriage.
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D.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1958 children's book by Dr. Seuss comprising three rhyming tales that use whimsical characters and absurd situations to explore themes of power, vanity, and personal responsibility.
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E.
The Snail and the Whale
The Snail and the Whale is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler that tells the rhyming story of a tiny snail who travels the world on the tail of a humpback whale.
- 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 Tinker and the Crab Target entity description: "The Tinker and the Crab" is a gentle, whimsical song by Donovan that tells a moral fable about kindness and understanding through the encounter between an inventive tinker and a crab.
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A.
The Crab That Played with the Sea
"The Crab That Played with the Sea" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical Just So Stories, telling a myth-like tale that explains how the sea’s tides and a once-powerful crab came to be as they are.
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B.
The Crab Pot
The Crab Pot is a popular Seattle waterfront seafood restaurant known for its casual atmosphere and signature “seafeast” crab and shellfish boils served family-style on paper-covered tables.
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C.
The Tinker’s Wedding
The Tinker’s Wedding is a one-act comedic play by Irish dramatist J. M. Synge that satirizes rural Irish life and social attitudes toward marriage.
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D.
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1958 children's book by Dr. Seuss comprising three rhyming tales that use whimsical characters and absurd situations to explore themes of power, vanity, and personal responsibility.
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E.
The Snail and the Whale
The Snail and the Whale is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler that tells the rhyming story of a tiny snail who travels the world on the tail of a humpback whale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.