Mr. Shelby
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Mr. Shelby is a character from the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known as a tough, impulsive member of the Shelby crime family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Shelby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10622958 — 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: Mr. Shelby Context triple: [Arthur Shelby, hasFullName, Mr. Shelby]
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A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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B.
Isaac McCaslin
Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
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C.
Thomas Sutpen
Thomas Sutpen is the ruthless, enigmatic plantation owner at the center of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose obsessive pursuit of a self-made dynasty drives the book’s tragic exploration of race, class, and the legacy of the American South.
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D.
Uncle Quentin
Uncle Quentin is the often-absent-minded, irritable but brilliant scientist and father of George in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series.
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E.
Augustine St. Clare
Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
- 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: Mr. Shelby Target entity description: Mr. Shelby is a character from the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known as a tough, impulsive member of the Shelby crime family.
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A.
Edwin Epps
Edwin Epps is the brutal, sadistic plantation owner who enslaves Solomon Northup in the film and memoir "12 Years a Slave."
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B.
Isaac McCaslin
Isaac McCaslin is a central character in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha saga, best known as the morally reflective heir who grapples with his family’s legacy of slavery and land ownership in the novel "Go Down, Moses."
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C.
Thomas Sutpen
Thomas Sutpen is the ruthless, enigmatic plantation owner at the center of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel, whose obsessive pursuit of a self-made dynasty drives the book’s tragic exploration of race, class, and the legacy of the American South.
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D.
Uncle Quentin
Uncle Quentin is the often-absent-minded, irritable but brilliant scientist and father of George in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series.
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E.
Augustine St. Clare
Augustine St. Clare is a wealthy, conflicted New Orleans slave owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," whose moral ambivalence and eventual change of heart highlight the cruelties of slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Peaky Blinders gang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Peaky Blinders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | historical Peaky Blinders gang (loosely) ⓘ |
| characteristic |
impulsive
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tough ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Shelby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Peaky Blinders universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
period drama ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Shelby crime family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shelby family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Shelby organization ⓘ |
| occupation | gangster ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Birmingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | post–World War I era ⓘ |
| theme |
family loyalty
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organized crime ⓘ power struggle ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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: Mr. Shelby Description of subject: Mr. Shelby is a character from the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known as a tough, impulsive member of the Shelby crime family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.