Shelby Company Limited
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Shelby Company Limited is the fictional Birmingham-based crime and betting enterprise run by Tommy Shelby in the television series "Peaky Blinders."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shelby Company Limited canonical | 15 |
| Shelby Brothers Limited | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10937809 — 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 Company Limited Context triple: [Tommy Shelby, business, Shelby Company Limited]
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A.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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B.
Argyle Enterprises
Argyle Enterprises is a film production company best known for its involvement in classic mid-20th-century cinema, including the 1963 horror film "The Haunting."
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C.
Shao Industries
Shao Industries is a company or corporate entity associated with and employing Liwen Shao.
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D.
Martin Company
Martin Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for developing missiles, spacecraft, and military systems before merging into Lockheed Martin.
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E.
The Shephard/Robin Company
The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
- 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 Company Limited Target entity description: Shelby Company Limited is the fictional Birmingham-based crime and betting enterprise run by Tommy Shelby in the television series "Peaky Blinders."
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A.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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B.
Argyle Enterprises
Argyle Enterprises is a film production company best known for its involvement in classic mid-20th-century cinema, including the 1963 horror film "The Haunting."
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C.
Shao Industries
Shao Industries is a company or corporate entity associated with and employing Liwen Shao.
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D.
Martin Company
Martin Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for developing missiles, spacecraft, and military systems before merging into Lockheed Martin.
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E.
The Shephard/Robin Company
The Shephard/Robin Company is a television production company best known for producing the crime drama series "The Closer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
betting company
ⓘ
crime organization ⓘ fictional company ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Peaky Blinders (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Peaky Blinders
|
| associatedWith |
Shelby Brothers Limited
ⓘ
linked to:
Shelby Company Limited
|
| associatedWithGang | Peaky Blinders gang ⓘ |
| basedIn | Birmingham ⓘ |
| businessTypeInStory | limited company ⓘ |
| controlledBy | Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Steven Knight ⓘ |
| distributionChannelInStory | betting shops ⓘ |
| employs | Peaky Blinders members ⓘ |
| expandsTo |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United States (in later seasons) ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Peaky Blinders ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Peaky Blinders, series 1 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Shelby family ⓘ |
| genreContext | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Ada Shelby
ⓘ
Arthur Shelby ⓘ John Shelby ⓘ Polly Gray ⓘ Tommy Shelby ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas Shelby
|
| hasOfficeIn | Birmingham city centre ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
political manipulation
ⓘ
protection rackets ⓘ smuggling ⓘ |
| languageOfSetting | English ⓘ |
| leader | Tommy Shelby ⓘ |
| legalStatusInStory | front company ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central organization in Peaky Blinders ⓘ |
| notableFor | combining legitimate business with crime ⓘ |
| notableLocation |
Small Heath, Birmingham
ⓘ
linked to:
Small Heath
|
| operatedBy | Shelby family ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
bookmaking
ⓘ
illegal betting ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| rivalOf |
Changretta family
ⓘ
Sabini organization ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-World War I ⓘ |
| usesAsCoverFor | criminal activities ⓘ |
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 Company Limited Description of subject: Shelby Company Limited is the fictional Birmingham-based crime and betting enterprise run by Tommy Shelby in the television series "Peaky Blinders."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.