The Tales of Para Handy
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The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television comedy series based on Neil Munro’s stories about the humorous misadventures of the crew of the Clyde puffer Vital Spark.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tales of Para Handy canonical | 1 |
| The Tales of Para Handy (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6795372 — 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 Tales of Para Handy Context triple: [Gregor Fisher, notableWork, The Tales of Para Handy]
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A.
Tales from the White Hart
Tales from the White Hart is a humorous science fiction short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke, framed as tall tales told in a fictional London pub.
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B.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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C.
Heaux Tales
Heaux Tales is a critically acclaimed 2021 R&B concept album by Jazmine Sullivan that explores modern womanhood, sexuality, and relationships through songs and spoken-word interludes.
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D.
Besses o’ th’ Barn
Besses o’ th’ Barn is a suburban area in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England, historically known as a small settlement that grew around a coaching inn on the main road between Manchester and Bury.
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E.
The Burryman’s Day
The Burryman’s Day is an annual folk tradition in South Queensferry, Scotland, in which a local man is ceremonially covered in burrs and paraded through the town to bring good luck.
- 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 Tales of Para Handy Target entity description: The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television comedy series based on Neil Munro’s stories about the humorous misadventures of the crew of the Clyde puffer Vital Spark.
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A.
Tales from the White Hart
Tales from the White Hart is a humorous science fiction short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke, framed as tall tales told in a fictional London pub.
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B.
Tales of a Wayside Inn
Tales of a Wayside Inn is a narrative poetry collection structured as a series of stories told by different characters gathered at a New England inn.
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C.
Heaux Tales
Heaux Tales is a critically acclaimed 2021 R&B concept album by Jazmine Sullivan that explores modern womanhood, sexuality, and relationships through songs and spoken-word interludes.
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D.
Besses o’ th’ Barn
Besses o’ th’ Barn is a suburban area in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, England, historically known as a small settlement that grew around a coaching inn on the main road between Manchester and Bury.
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E.
The Burryman’s Day
The Burryman’s Day is an annual folk tradition in South Queensferry, Scotland, in which a local man is ceremonially covered in burrs and paraded through the town to bring good luck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish television series
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television series ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Para Handy stories
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short stories by Neil Munro ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | life aboard a Clyde puffer ⓘ |
| featuresVessel | Clyde puffer Vital Spark ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFictionalShip | Vital Spark ⓘ |
| hasSourceAuthor | Neil Munro ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
maritime comedy
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working-class Scottish life ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Para Handy ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | Para Handy – Tales of a Scottish Sailor ⓘ |
| languageVariant | Scottish English ⓘ |
| literarySourceGenre | humorous fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Captain Peter MacFarlane
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Para Handy ⓘ crew of the Vital Spark ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | humorous misadventures of a coastal cargo boat crew ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| originatesFromWork | Scottish literature ⓘ |
| portrays | early 20th-century Scottish coastal trade ⓘ |
| producer | BBC Scotland ⓘ |
| setting |
Firth of Clyde
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Scotland ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: The Tales of Para Handy Description of subject: The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television comedy series based on Neil Munro’s stories about the humorous misadventures of the crew of the Clyde puffer Vital Spark.
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