Diana Hardcastle
E205747
Diana Hardcastle is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diana Hardcastle canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1817367 — 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: Diana Hardcastle Context triple: [Tom Wilkinson, spouse, Diana Hardcastle]
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A.
Katherine Deighton
Katherine Deighton was the wife of Thomas Dudley, a prominent early colonial leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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C.
Joan Archer
Joan Archer is best known as the first wife of American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, whom she married before his historic Apollo 11 moon mission.
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D.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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E.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
- 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: Diana Hardcastle Target entity description: Diana Hardcastle is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
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A.
Katherine Deighton
Katherine Deighton was the wife of Thomas Dudley, a prominent early colonial leader and multiple-term governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Mary Tuffley
Mary Tuffley was the wife of English writer Daniel Defoe, known primarily through her marriage to the famed author of "Robinson Crusoe."
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C.
Joan Archer
Joan Archer is best known as the first wife of American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, whom she married before his historic Apollo 11 moon mission.
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D.
Helga Cranston
Helga Cranston was a film editor best known for her work on Laurence Olivier’s 1948 adaptation of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet."
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E.
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was an English gentlewoman of the 17th century best known as the mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, one of Britain’s most celebrated military commanders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actress
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actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
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performing arts ⓘ |
| genre |
film acting
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stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Tom Wilkinson ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Good Woman
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First Among Equals ⓘ Fortunes of War ⓘ Foyle's War ⓘ Inspector Morse ⓘ Midsomer Murders ⓘ My Week with Marilyn (2011 film) ⓘ
surface form:
My Week with Marilyn
Taggart ⓘ The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ⓘ The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ⓘ
surface form:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (stage adaptation)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ⓘ The Honourable Woman ⓘ The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ⓘ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ⓘ The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ⓘ The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Tom Wilkinson ⓘ |
| workedWith |
David Heyman
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Dev Patel ⓘ John Madden ⓘ Judi Dench ⓘ Maggie Smith ⓘ |
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: Diana Hardcastle Description of subject: Diana Hardcastle is a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" and "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Boy (2016 film)