Shelby family
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The Shelby family is a fictional Birmingham-based crime family at the center of the British television series "Peaky Blinders," led by the ambitious and ruthless Tommy Shelby.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shelby family canonical | 28 |
| Shelby family circle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10937792 — 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: Shelby family Context triple: [Tommy Shelby, family, Shelby family]
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A.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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B.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent Taiwanese-American show business family that includes acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee and his actor son Mason Lee.
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C.
Lee family
The Lee family is an English noble lineage historically associated with the title of Earl of Lichfield in its second creation.
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D.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a notable English family historically connected to the ownership and residence of the country estate Harpton Court in Herefordshire.
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E.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a central, long-running fictional clan on the American soap opera "Guiding Light," known for its influential role in the show's major storylines and interfamily dramas.
- 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: Shelby family Target entity description: The Shelby family is a fictional Birmingham-based crime family at the center of the British television series "Peaky Blinders," led by the ambitious and ruthless Tommy Shelby.
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A.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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B.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent Taiwanese-American show business family that includes acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee and his actor son Mason Lee.
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C.
Lee family
The Lee family is an English noble lineage historically associated with the title of Earl of Lichfield in its second creation.
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D.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a notable English family historically connected to the ownership and residence of the country estate Harpton Court in Herefordshire.
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E.
Lewis family
The Lewis family is a central, long-running fictional clan on the American soap opera "Guiding Light," known for its influential role in the show's major storylines and interfamily dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime family
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fictional family ⓘ television character group ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Peaky Blinders ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British Labour politics
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British aristocracy (fictional depiction) ⓘ Irish Republican Army (fictional depiction) ⓘ
linked to:
Irish Republican Army
Italian mafia (fictional depiction) ⓘ |
| basedIn | Birmingham ⓘ |
| controlsOrganization |
Peaky Blinders gang
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Shelby Company Limited ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Steven Knight ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | partly Romani ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Peaky Blinders series 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Shelby ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class struggle
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family versus power ⓘ post-war trauma ⓘ |
| historicalContext | aftermath of World War I ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leader | Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| member |
Ada Shelby
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Arthur Shelby ⓘ Charlie Strong ⓘ Esme Shelby ⓘ Finn Shelby ⓘ John Shelby ⓘ Lizzie Shelby ⓘ Michael Gray ⓘ Polly Gray ⓘ Ruby Shelby ⓘ Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antiheroes
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central protagonists ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambition
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family loyalty ⓘ ruthlessness ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
illegal betting
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organized crime ⓘ political manipulation ⓘ protection racketeering ⓘ smuggling ⓘ |
| setting |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Small Heath ⓘ |
| 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: Shelby family Description of subject: The Shelby family is a fictional Birmingham-based crime family at the center of the British television series "Peaky Blinders," led by the ambitious and ruthless Tommy Shelby.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.