Tommy Shelby
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Tommy Shelby is the cunning and ambitious leader of the Shelby crime family, a World War I veteran who rises to power in post-war Birmingham in the series "Peaky Blinders."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Shelby canonical | 22 |
| Thomas Shelby | 3 |
| Thomas Michael Shelby | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350690 — 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: Tommy Shelby Context triple: [Peaky Blinders, mainCharacter, Tommy Shelby]
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A.
Eric Beale
Eric Beale is a highly skilled and quirky technical operator and intelligence analyst on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Tommy Dickson
Tommy Dickson was a prolific Northern Irish forward best known as a legendary goal-scorer and iconic figure for Linfield FC in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Owen Nolan
Owen Nolan is a retired Canadian right winger known for his power-forward style, five NHL All-Star selections, and long tenure as captain of the San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Willie Somerset
Willie Somerset is an American former professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and playmaking in the late 1960s, including a notable stint in the American Basketball Association.
- 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: Tommy Shelby Target entity description: Tommy Shelby is the cunning and ambitious leader of the Shelby crime family, a World War I veteran who rises to power in post-war Birmingham in the series "Peaky Blinders."
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A.
Eric Beale
Eric Beale is a highly skilled and quirky technical operator and intelligence analyst on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Tommy Dickson
Tommy Dickson was a prolific Northern Irish forward best known as a legendary goal-scorer and iconic figure for Linfield FC in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Owen Nolan
Owen Nolan is a retired Canadian right winger known for his power-forward style, five NHL All-Star selections, and long tenure as captain of the San Jose Sharks.
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E.
Willie Somerset
Willie Somerset is an American former professional basketball player best known for his standout scoring and playmaking in the late 1960s, including a notable stint in the American Basketball Association.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Tommy Shelby Description of subject: Tommy Shelby is the cunning and ambitious leader of the Shelby crime family, a World War I veteran who rises to power in post-war Birmingham in the series "Peaky Blinders."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tommy Shelby
linked to: Tommy Shelby
linked to: Tommy Shelby
subject linked to:
May Carleton in Peaky Blinders
subject linked to:
May Carleton in Peaky Blinders
linked to: Tommy Shelby
linked to: Tommy Shelby
subject linked to:
Thomas