Esme Shelby
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Esme Shelby is a free-spirited, sharp-tongued Romani woman who marries into the Shelby family and becomes a recurring figure in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Esme Shelby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350702 — 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: Esme Shelby Context triple: [Peaky Blinders, character, Esme Shelby]
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A.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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B.
Scarlett Curtis
Scarlett Curtis is a British writer, activist, and feminist known for her work on mental health advocacy and for editing the bestselling anthology "Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies)."
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C.
India Wilkes
India Wilkes is a supporting character in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known as Ashley Wilkes's prim, proper cousin who harbors a long-standing resentment toward Scarlett O'Hara.
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D.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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E.
Rosaleen Daise
Rosaleen Daise is a strong-willed, outspoken Black housekeeper and mother figure who plays a central role in Lily Owens’s journey of self-discovery in the novel *The Secret Life of Bees*.
- 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: Esme Shelby Target entity description: Esme Shelby is a free-spirited, sharp-tongued Romani woman who marries into the Shelby family and becomes a recurring figure in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders."
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A.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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B.
Scarlett Curtis
Scarlett Curtis is a British writer, activist, and feminist known for her work on mental health advocacy and for editing the bestselling anthology "Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies)."
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C.
India Wilkes
India Wilkes is a supporting character in Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind," known as Ashley Wilkes's prim, proper cousin who harbors a long-standing resentment toward Scarlett O'Hara.
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D.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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E.
Rosaleen Daise
Rosaleen Daise is a strong-willed, outspoken Black housekeeper and mother figure who plays a central role in Lily Owens’s journey of self-discovery in the novel *The Secret Life of Bees*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Peaky Blinders ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Peaky Blinders gang ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Steven Knight ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Romani ⓘ |
| familyConnection | by marriage to the Shelby family ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Peaky Blinders, series 1 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | British crime drama television series ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Shelby family ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
independent
ⓘ
strong-willed ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
free-spirited
ⓘ
sharp-tongued ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Aimee-Ffion Edwards ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Ada Shelby
ⓘ
Arthur Shelby ⓘ Polly Gray ⓘ Thomas Shelby ⓘ |
| setting |
Birmingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham, England
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| spouse | John Shelby ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-World War I era ⓘ |
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: Esme Shelby Description of subject: Esme Shelby is a free-spirited, sharp-tongued Romani woman who marries into the Shelby family and becomes a recurring figure in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.