The Crab That Played with the Sea
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"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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Crab That Played with the Sea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824322 — 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 Crab That Played with the Sea Context triple: [Just So Stories, hasPart, The Crab That Played with the Sea]
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A.
The Crab with the Golden Claws
The Crab with the Golden Claws is a classic Tintin comic adventure in which the young reporter uncovers an opium-smuggling ring and first meets his future companion, Captain Haddock.
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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 Crab
The Crab was the nickname of Johnny Evers, a Hall of Fame second baseman famed for his gritty play and key role in the early 20th-century Chicago Cubs dynasty.
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D.
The Fisherman
The Fisherman is the hook-wielding serial killer villain from the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series, known for stalking and murdering the teens who wronged him.
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E.
How the Whale Got His Throat
"How the Whale Got His Throat" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, a whimsical origin tale explaining how the whale came to have a narrow throat.
- 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 Crab That Played with the Sea Target entity description: "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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A.
The Crab with the Golden Claws
The Crab with the Golden Claws is a classic Tintin comic adventure in which the young reporter uncovers an opium-smuggling ring and first meets his future companion, Captain Haddock.
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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 Crab
The Crab was the nickname of Johnny Evers, a Hall of Fame second baseman famed for his gritty play and key role in the early 20th-century Chicago Cubs dynasty.
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D.
The Fisherman
The Fisherman is the hook-wielding serial killer villain from the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" horror film series, known for stalking and murdering the teens who wronged him.
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E.
How the Whale Got His Throat
"How the Whale Got His Throat" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, a whimsical origin tale explaining how the whale came to have a narrow throat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Just So Story
ⓘ
children's story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| collection | Just So Stories ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explains |
the origin of the tides
ⓘ
why crabs are small ⓘ why the sea goes out and comes in ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1902 ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ mythic fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Pau Amma the Crab
ⓘ
the Daughter of the Man ⓘ the Eldest Magician ⓘ the Man ⓘ the Sea ⓘ
linked to:
Ocean
|
| hasIllustrationsBy | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| hasMoralElement |
consequences of selfishness
ⓘ
importance of balance in nature ⓘ |
| hasTargetAgeRange |
early readers
ⓘ
middle childhood ⓘ |
| includedIn | various children's anthologies ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
myth-like
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whimsical ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Pau Amma
ⓘ
the Daughter of the Man ⓘ the Eldest Magician ⓘ the Man ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | etiological tale ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| originalPublisher |
Macmillan & Co.
ⓘ
linked to:
Macmillan and Co.
|
| partOfSeries |
Just So Stories for Little Children
ⓘ
linked to:
Just So Stories
|
| setting |
the primordial world
ⓘ
the seashore ⓘ |
| theme |
human relationship with nature
ⓘ
order imposed on chaos ⓘ power and responsibility ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Crab That Played with the Sea Description of subject: "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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