Michael Gray
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Michael Gray is a key member of the Shelby family and the Shelby Company in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders," known for his ambition, business acumen, and eventual rivalry with Tommy Shelby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Gray canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350698 — 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: Michael Gray Context triple: [Peaky Blinders, character, Michael Gray]
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A.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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B.
Christopher Blake
Christopher Blake is a stage play written by American playwright Moss Hart, best known for its dramatic exploration of family and marital conflict.
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C.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
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D.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
- 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: Michael Gray Target entity description: Michael Gray is a key member of the Shelby family and the Shelby Company in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders," known for his ambition, business acumen, and eventual rivalry with Tommy Shelby.
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A.
Michael Graydon
Michael Graydon is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a leading commander of British fighter aviation during the late 20th century.
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B.
Christopher Blake
Christopher Blake is a stage play written by American playwright Moss Hart, best known for its dramatic exploration of family and marital conflict.
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C.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
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D.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| addiction |
alcohol
ⓘ
cocaine ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Peaky Blinders ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American business interests
ⓘ
New York criminal circles ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical criminal archetypes from interwar Britain ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by firing squad ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Gray ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Peaky Blinders
ⓘ
surface form:
Peaky Blinders universe
|
| firstAppearance |
Peaky Blinders
ⓘ
surface form:
Peaky Blinders, series 2
|
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
calculating ⓘ intelligent ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| killedBy | Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| lastAppearance |
Peaky Blinders
ⓘ
surface form:
Peaky Blinders, series 6
|
| loyaltyConflictWith |
Polly Gray
ⓘ
Thomas Shelby ⓘ
surface form:
Tommy Shelby
|
| memberOf |
Shelby Company Limited
ⓘ
Shelby family ⓘ |
| mother | Polly Gray ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
former ally of Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
gangster ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | Birmingham ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement |
attempted takeover of Shelby Company Limited
ⓘ
betrayal of Tommy Shelby ⓘ involvement in the New York stock market crash storyline ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Finn Cole ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
company treasurer
ⓘ
senior executive in Shelby Company Limited ⓘ |
| relative |
Ada Shelby
ⓘ
Arthur Shelby ⓘ John Shelby ⓘ Polly Gray ⓘ Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| spouse | Gina Gray ⓘ |
| worksFor | Shelby Company Limited ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Michael Gray Description of subject: Michael Gray is a key member of the Shelby family and the Shelby Company in the British crime drama series "Peaky Blinders," known for his ambition, business acumen, and eventual rivalry with Tommy Shelby.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.