Text: He thought there must be about four or five people seated round a long table that took up most of the space, but his attention was caught and held by a tall man with close-cropped hair and a short, pointed, naval-looking beard, who sat at the head of the table with papers in front of him.
Entailment: It appears that there were at least four people at the table.
Contradiction: There was nobody at the table before him.