Diana Sowle
E1028128
Diana Sowle was an American actress best known for playing Charlie Bucket’s mother in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diana Sowle canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11984846 — 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 Sowle Context triple: [Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, castMember, Diana Sowle]
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Kaye V. Dowling
Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Barbara M. Rolph
Barbara M. Rolph was the woman who sponsored the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) at its launching ceremony.
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D.
Judie G. Hoyt
Judie G. Hoyt is a film producer best known for her work on the acclaimed crime drama "Mystic River."
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E.
Bonnie J. Dunbar
Bonnie J. Dunbar is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions and later became a prominent leader in aerospace education and research.
- 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 Sowle Target entity description: Diana Sowle was an American actress best known for playing Charlie Bucket’s mother in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
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A.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Elizabeth B. Prelogar is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves as the chief advocate for the U.S. government before the Supreme Court.
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B.
Kaye V. Dowling
Kaye V. Dowling was the wife of American film, radio, and television actor Hugh Marlowe.
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C.
Barbara M. Rolph
Barbara M. Rolph was the woman who sponsored the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38) at its launching ceremony.
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D.
Judie G. Hoyt
Judie G. Hoyt is a film producer best known for her work on the acclaimed crime drama "Mystic River."
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E.
Bonnie J. Dunbar
Bonnie J. Dunbar is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on five Space Shuttle missions and later became a prominent leader in aerospace education and research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
ⓘ
actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century film
ⓘ
21st-century film ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm |
Clear and Present Danger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guarding Tess NERFINISHED ⓘ Hearts in Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedInTelevision |
Murder, She Wrote
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The American Experience NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| characterIn | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenOf | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-06-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-10-19 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sowle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| givenName | Diana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0816241 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Charlie Bucket’s mother in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Diana Sowle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Mrs. Bucket in the 1971 film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ⓘ |
| notableWork | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
United States of America
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| role | Mrs. Bucket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael Sowle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | reading teacher ⓘ |
| workedIn | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | stage productions in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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 Sowle Description of subject: Diana Sowle was an American actress best known for playing Charlie Bucket’s mother in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory