Arthur Shelby
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Arthur Shelby is a volatile and fiercely loyal member of the Shelby family and a key leader in the criminal gang at the center of the British TV series "Peaky Blinders."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Shelby canonical | 27 |
| Arthur Shelby Sr. | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350691 — 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: Arthur Shelby Context triple: [Peaky Blinders, mainCharacter, Arthur Shelby]
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A.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a relatively kind but morally compromised slaveholder whose financial troubles lead to the sale of Uncle Tom.
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B.
Randolph Galt
Randolph Galt was the husband of American actress Anne Baxter, known primarily for his marriage to the Academy Award–winning star.
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C.
Charlie Pace
Charlie Pace is a fictional rock musician and troubled yet endearing survivor from the television series "Lost."
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D.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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E.
Daniel Drew
Daniel Drew was a 19th-century American financier and speculator notorious for his role in railroad wars and stock market manipulation on Wall Street.
- 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: Arthur Shelby Target entity description: Arthur Shelby is a volatile and fiercely loyal member of the Shelby family and a key leader in the criminal gang at the center of the British TV series "Peaky Blinders."
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A.
Arthur Shelby
Arthur Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as a relatively kind but morally compromised slaveholder whose financial troubles lead to the sale of Uncle Tom.
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B.
Randolph Galt
Randolph Galt was the husband of American actress Anne Baxter, known primarily for his marriage to the Academy Award–winning star.
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C.
Charlie Pace
Charlie Pace is a fictional rock musician and troubled yet endearing survivor from the television series "Lost."
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D.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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E.
Daniel Drew
Daniel Drew was a 19th-century American financier and speculator notorious for his role in railroad wars and stock market manipulation on Wall Street.
- 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: Arthur Shelby Description of subject: Arthur Shelby is a volatile and fiercely loyal member of the Shelby family and a key leader in the criminal gang at the center of the British TV series "Peaky Blinders."
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arthur Shelby
linked to: Arthur Shelby
linked to: Arthur Shelby