hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Marina Ottaway
Marina S. Ottaway teaches and researches at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Her research  interests include the politics of development, with particular reference to Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

Before she joined the Wilson Center, she spent 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment, where she helped start up the Middle East Program.  She has also taught at Georgetown University, the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, the American University in Cairo, and three other universities, all in Africa.

Ottaway has a doctorate from Columbia University.

American University in Cairo
The American University in Cairo (AUC; Arabic: الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, romanized: al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in New Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs at undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, along with a continuing education program. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in the United States and Egypt's National Authority for Quality Assurance and Assessment of Education.
1992 Kremlin Cup – Doubles
Eric Jelen and Carl-Uwe Steeb were the defending champions, but Jelen did not participate this year.  Steeb partnered Patrik Kühnen, losing in the first round.

Marius Barnard and John-Laffnie de Jager won the title, defeating David Adams and Andrei Olhovskiy 6–4, 3–6, 7–6 in the final.

Marius Barnard (tennis)
Marius Barnard (born 20 January 1969) is a retired South African tennis player, who delivers Executive Coaching to CEOs, MDs, Directors, and other business leaders. He specialises in shifting mindsets, performance coaching, managing pressure, building self-belief, and utilising Positive Intelligence tools. As a business and psychology graduate, he started coaching tennis players, cricketers, and golfers in 2002. He converted to Executive Coaching in 2019 and became an EMCC Senior Practitioner in March 2021.  As a tennis professional, he was more successful in doubles on the ATP Tour and played in Grand Slams for more than a decade. In his career, he won six titles on the ATP Tour, reached eight finals as well as the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and the Australian Open.
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam (born 21 November 1940 in Brighton, Sussex, England) is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. The museum is caretaker to over 1.2 million objects, some 900 feet (270 m) of documents, 2,000 maps and site plans, and about 500,000 photographs. The museum is located at Divinity Avenue on the Harvard University campus. The museum is one of the four Harvard Museums of Science and Culture open to the public.
FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies
The FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies (FCVT) was a national Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program developing more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly highway transportation technologies to enable the United States to use less petroleum. Run by Michael Berube, it had long-term aims to develop "leap-frog" technologies to provide Americans with greater freedom of mobility and energy security, lower costs, and reduce environmental impacts.

Leapfrog
Leapfrog is a children's game of physical movement of the body in which players vault over each other's stooped backs.  The term has also become a verb describing any situation in which a person or entity at the rear of a line advances directly to the front.
Lethrinops macrophthalmus
Lethrinops macrophthalmus is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi where it is known to occur in the Nkhotakota area.  It prefers habitats with patches of Vallisneria.  This species grows to a length of 12 centimetres (4.7 in) SL.

Nkhotakota
Nkhotakota (N-kho-tah-kho-tuh) (formerly Kota Kota) (name derived from the Chichewa for "Corner Corner") is a town and one of the districts in the Central Region of Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa) and is one of the main ports on Lake Malawi. As of 2018, Nkhotakota had a population estimated at 28,350. The district had a population of 301,000.
2021–22 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A
The 2021–22 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the twentieth season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament that was played in India. It was contested by 38 teams, divided into six groups, with six teams in Group A. The tournament was announced by the BCCI on 3 July 2021. Himachal Pradesh won Group A to progress to the quarter-finals, with Vidarbha finishing in second place to advance to the preliminary quarter-finals.

Himachal Pradesh cricket team
The Himachal Pradesh cricket team is an Indian cricket team based in Himachal Pradesh. It has competed in the Ranji Trophy since the 1985–86 season. They have won their first domestic trophy, by winning the 2021–22 edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy.
São Mamede
São Mamede can refer to:

São Mamede (Batalha), a parish in Batalha, Portugal

São Mamede (Lisbon), a parish in Lisbon, Portugal

São Mamede (Paraíba), a town in Paraíba, Brazil

São Mamede de Este, a Portuguese parish

São Mamede de Infesta, a Portuguese city

Battle of São Mamede

Este (São Pedro e São Mamede)
Este (São Pedro e São Mamede) is a civil parish in the municipality of Braga, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Pedro and São Mamede. The population in 2011 was 3,837, in an area of 9.79 km². In São Mamede is located the Chamor Hill.
Yasuaki Shimizu
Yasuaki Shimizu (清水靖晃, Shimizu Yasuaki) (born 9 August 1954) is a Japanese composer, saxophonist and producer. He is known for his interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach, in particular the "Cello Suites 1-6" re-arranged for and performed on tenor saxophone.

Since 1981 he has composed, produced or arranged for artists as diverse as jazz vocalist Helen Merrill, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, and DJ Towa Tei. During this time he has lived in London, Paris and Tokyo.

Japan Record Awards
The Japan Record Awards (日本レコード大賞, Nihon Rekōdo Taishō) is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Established in 1959, the Japan Record Awards are one of the oldest and most prestigious music awards in the country.

Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but has since aired every December 30 on TBS Japan at 6:30 pm JST and is hosted by many announcers. Exile holds the record for most Grand Prix wins, with four awards.
Two Dickinson Street Co-op
The Two Dickinson Street Co-op, or 2D, is one of the five student dining co-ops at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. 2D is a 50-member vegetarian (and vegan-friendly) cooperative located across the street from the Princeton University campus.

2D is an alternative to the eating clubs, which constitute the most commonly selected eating option for upperclassmen at Princeton University. Unusual for independent dining co-ops, it is based in university-managed housing.

The Philosopher Kings (film)
The Philosopher Kings is a 2009 documentary film directed by Patrick Shen, and produced by Greg Bennick, about custodial workers at major U.S. universities and their lives.

Filming took place at Cornish College of the Arts; UC Berkeley; Duke University; University of Florida; Princeton University, for the section about Josue Lajeunesse; the California Institute of Technology; and Cornell University. The film premiered at Silverdocs in June 2009 and was shown at the SF DocFest film festival at The Roxie in San Francisco in October 2009.
Yanpar
Yanpar (also known as Gökkuşağı) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Akdeniz, Mersin Province, Turkey. Its population is 712 (2022). It is situated just south of the Çukurova motorway. The distance to Mersin is 18 kilometres (11 mi). The name of the village refers to the Yanpar tribe. Although there are no references to this tribe in historical records, according to the village website, Yanpar is the original name of  the Yaparlu tribe of the historical records. Yanpar tribe is a Turkmen tribe that migrated from Central Anatolia to the present area during the short Egyptian rule in the 1830s.

Akdeniz, Mersin
Akdeniz is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 265 km2, and its population is 255,946 (2022). It covers the central and eastern part of the city of Mersin and the adjacent countryside.
Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Moustache (Half a Scissor) is the second full-length album by Mr. Oizo, the alias of producer/filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, released on September 19, 2005.

This was Dupieux's last release for F Communications, which infamously referred to it as "unlistenable" due to its extensive use of unusual time signatures and dissonant samples. His next two albums were released on the French label Ed Banger Records. The album was re-released by the American label Brainfeeder in 2011 on limited-edition vinyl.

The album's only single, "Stunt", did not chart.

F Communications
F Communications, also known as FCom, was a French record label based in Paris. It was founded in 1994 by Eric Morand and Laurent Garnier. It produces dance and electronic music by artists like Avril, Garnier, and Mr. Oizo amongst many others.

In 1999, it was named "one of France's premier labels specializing in electronic music".

In 2003, the record label had a turnover of 2.4 million euros.

The record label folded in 2008.
Ognjen Jaramaz
Ognjen Jaramaz (Serbian: Огњен Јарамаз; born 1 September 1995) is a Serbian professional basketball player for Cedevita Olimpija of the Slovenian League, the ABA League, and the EuroCup. Standing at 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in), he plays at the shooting guard and point guard positions.

Slovenian Basketball League
The Slovenian Basketball League (Slovene: 1. slovenska košarkarska liga), abbreviated as 1. SKL and known as the Liga OTP banka due to sponsorship reasons, is the top-level professional men's basketball league in Slovenia. The league is operated by the Basketball Federation of Slovenia and consists of eleven clubs. The most successful team is Cedevita Olimpija with 22 titles.
1987 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's doubles
The 1987 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 39th edition of the men's doubles championship.


Wei Qingguang and Chen Longcan won the title after defeating Ilija Lupulesku and Zoran Primorac in the final by two sets to one.

Ilija Lupulesku
Ilija Lupulesku (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Лупулеску; Romanian: Ilia Lupulescu; born October 30, 1967) is a former Yugoslavian and later American table tennis player who competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2002 and competed for the United States from 2004 to 2006. Ilija Lupulesku played his first game of table tennis at age nine in his small hometown of Uzdin, Yugoslavia. After seeing other children playing at his local school, he picked up a paddle and began what would become his life's ambition. Despite his love and talent for soccer, Lupulesku, under the watchful eye of first coach Jon Bosika, committed himself to training and by age 14 was the top player on the Yugoslavian Junior National Table Tennis Team.
Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki
Nakahara-ku (中原区) is one of the 7 wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of November 2014, the ward had an estimated population of 244,565 and a density of 16,637 persons per km². The total area was 14.70 km².

Wards of Japan
A ward (区, ku) is a subdivision of the cities of Japan that are large enough to have been designated by government ordinance.  Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance ("designated city"). The 23 special wards of Tokyo Metropolis have a municipal status, and are not the same as other entities referred to as ku, although their predecessors were.

Wards are local entities directly controlled by the municipal government.  They handle administrative functions such as koseki registration, health insurance, and property taxation. Many wards have affiliated residents' organizations for a number of tasks, although these do not have any legal authority.
Piotr Lisiecki
Piotr Lisiecki (born 2 March 1993) is a Polish singer and guitarist who rose to fame after placing third on the third series of Poland's Got Talent. In late 2010, he was signed to EMI Music Poland. His debut album, Rules Changed Up was released on 27 April 2011. One week later, it placed eighth in Polish official sales chart.

Mam talent! series 3
The third series of Mam talent! premiered on Saturday 4 September 2010 at 20:00 on TVN. It consisted of seven auditions' episodes, five semi-finals and the final, which aired on 27 November 2010. The winner of the competition was Magda Welc, 11-year-old singer and she gained 300 000 PLN and the runner-up was Kamil Bednare. There was also a Special Prize - 100 000 PLN founded by Apart - which was given to Sabina Jeszka. Winner of the second series, Marcin Wyrostek performed during the first semi-final and Paul Potts, winner of the first series of Britain's Got Talent was a special guest on 13 November 2010.
Moanda BB
Monada Basketball, also known as Moanda BB or MDA, is a Gabonese basketball club based in Moanda. Founded in 2022, they play in the Gabonese Basketball Cup and internationally in the Road to BAL. Moanda won its first Gabonese Cup in 2024, after defeating the Mandji Jokers in the finals. They won a second consecutive title in 2025, after defeating the Gladiators in the final. As champions, they played in the Road to BAL round in 2024 and in 2025. In the second year, they advanced to the Elite 16.

Gabonese Basketball Cup
The Gabonese Basketball Cup (in French: Coupe du Gabon) is the premier basketball tournament for teams in Gabon. The tournament consisted of 10 teams in the 2023 season, and the location is usually rotated between different cities in the country. The participating teams are the winners of the country's regional tournaments. The champions of each season qualify for the Road to BAL.
Clodoaldo (footballer, born November 1978)
Clodoaldo Paulino de Lima, or simply Clodoaldo (born 25 November 1978), is a Brazilian former football striker, and current manager of Atlético Cali.

He played in Colombia from 2002 to 2003. In 2007, he was a member of the  Corinthians team that was relegated to Serie B, scoring in their final match against Grêmio.

In May 2009 he left Santo André for Figueirense Futebol Clube.

As of March 2012 he was playing for Uberaba.

In January 2013 he signed for Cruzeiro-RS, having played in friendly matches for União Suzano in Bolivia towards the end of 2012.

In January 2014 he joined Depor FC from Brazilian side Suzano.

Figueirense FC
Figueirense Futebol Clube, commonly referred to as Figueirense, is a Brazilian professional club based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina founded on 12 June 1921. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Catarinense, the top flight of the Santa Catarina state football league.
Besh-Aral Nature Reserve
Besh-Aral Nature Reserve (Kyrgyz: Беш-Арал мамлекеттик коругу, Russian: Беш-Аральский государственный заповедник) is a nature reserve in Chatkal District, Jalal-Abad Region, western Kyrgyzstan. It is located on the northwestern slope of the Chatkal Range, in the basin of the  Ters, and lies at an altitude of 950 to 2,300 meters above sea level. The reserve was established in 1979 with the aim of protecting many rare and endangered animals of Western Tien Shan, especially the Menzbier’s marmot, which is listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The reserve currently covers an area of 112,463 hectares.
This is a mountainous region with untouched wild landscapes, turbulent rivers, vast meadows, and great biodiversity.

Chatkal District
Chatkal (Kyrgyz: Чаткал району) is a district of Jalal-Abad Region in western Kyrgyzstan. The administrative seat lies at Kanysh-Kyya. Its area is 4,608 square kilometres (1,779 sq mi), and its resident population was 28,625 in 2021.
Naoki Saito (mathematician)
Naoki Saito is an applied mathematician specializing in applied and computational harmonic analysis, and interested in feature extraction, pattern recognition, graph signal processing, statistical signal processing, Laplacian eigenfunctions, and human and machine perception.

Signal processing
Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing signals, such as sound, images, potential fields, seismic signals, altimetry processing, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, digital storage efficiency, correcting distorted signals, improve subjective video quality, and to detect or pinpoint components of interest in a measured signal.
Frank Bolick
Frank Charles Bolick (born June 28, 1966) is an American former Major League Baseball player from Ashland, Pennsylvania. He was an infielder for the Montreal Expos and Anaheim Angels. He also played four seasons in Japan with the Chiba Lotte Marines. He threw right-handed, and was a switch hitter.

Ashland, Pennsylvania
Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill and Columbia counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Pottsville. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. A small part of the borough also lies in Columbia County, although all of the population resided in the Schuylkill County portion as of the 2020 census. The borough lies in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky. The population in 1900 was 6,438, and in 1940, 7,045, but had dropped to 2,471 at the 2020 census.

It is the location of Pioneer Tunnel, a tourist attraction featuring a tour of a coal mine on mine cars and a separate 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge steam train ride.
Ascona Jazz Festival
46°09′N 8°46′E﻿ / ﻿46.150°N 8.767°E﻿ / 46.150; 8.767

Ascona Jazz Festival, or Jazz Ascona, is an annual jazz festival held in Ascona, Switzerland. The 10-day festival takes place from late June to early July on the Swiss shores of Lake Maggiore and is devoted to historical styles of jazz, particularly New Orleans jazz.

Under the direction of Nicolas Gilliet, Jazz Ascona features more than 200 concerts, 300 musicians, and events such as gospel choirs, jam sessions, exhibits, conferences, and films.

Dixieland jazz
Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band fostered awareness of this new style of music.
German submarine U-979
German submarine U-979 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.
She was laid down on 10 August 1942 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg as yard number 179, launched on 15 April 1943 and commissioned on 20 May 1943 under Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Meermeier.

Blohm+Voss
Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in 1877 to specialise in steel-hulled ships, its most famous product was the World War II battleship Bismarck. In the 1930s, its owners established the Hamburger Flugzeugbau aircraft manufacturer which, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, adopted the name of its parent company. Following a difficult period after the war, B+V was revived, changing ownership among several owners, such as Thyssen Group and Star Capital.

In 2016 it became a subsidiary of Lürssen and supplied both the military and civilian markets before becoming subsidiary of Rheinmetall in 2025.

The company  serves two areas – new construction of warships as NVL B.V. & Co. KG, and new construction and refitting of megayachts.
Hussein Mabrouk
Hussein Mabrouk (born 30 April 1980) is an Egyptian handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

His brothers, Ashraf, Hazem, Belal, Ibrahim and Hassan, are also international handball players.

Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
The men's handball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held from August 10 to August 24, at the Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium and National Indoor Stadium in Beijing.  Twelve nations are represented in the men's tournament.

The four best teams from each group advanced to the quarterfinal round, 5th and 6th teams in each group are classified 9th-12th by the results of their group matches. The losers of quarterfinal matches competed in the 5th-8th place matches by the same elimination system as the winners of the quarterfinals.

This event was the last to be completed in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
JaySynths
Chisom Obinna Onyeke (born 27 October 1988), known professionally as JaySynths, is a Nigerian record producer and sound engineer best known for producing Teni's hit single "Case" in 2018. He is the originating record producer of Ojapiano and the first record producer to produce it, a fusion of the Igbo people’s Ọjà and South African sub genre of house music Amapiano, taking its name from Ọjà and Piano, he is also the producer behind the soundtracks of 2023 Netflix number 1 movie, Shanty Town.

Amapiano
Amapiano is a genre of music from South Africa that became popular in the early 2020s. It is a hybrid of kwaito,  deep house, gqom, jazz, soul, and lounge music characterized by synths and wide, percussive basslines. The word "amapiano" derives from the IsiZulu word for "pianos".
Marian Rułka
Marian Rułka (22 July 1929, Lublin – 13 November 1983, Warsaw) was a Polish theatre and film actor. In 1952 he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. He has worked in the Ateneum Theatre, the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre in Lublin, the Wola Theatre in Warsaw, and National Theatre in Warsaw.

Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art
The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (Polish: Akademia Teatralna im. Aleksandra Zelwerowicza w Warszawie) is a public higher education institution in Warsaw, Poland. Its focus is on the theatre arts. It is headquartered in the Collegium Nobilium, an eighteenth-century building which formerly housed an elite boarding secondary school run by Piarist monks.
Los Lichis
Los Lichis is a Mexican free-rock group founded in 1996 and based in Monterrey and Mexico City. The band first worked as a multimedia concept art collective but later moved to musical improvisations with a Lo-fi sound. In 2000, French composer Jean Baptiste Favory joined the group. The band has also performed under aliases, such as "Cacaflies" and "Chavilocos & The Butchers Filarmonika".

Radio Libertaire
Radio Libertaire is an FM French radio station of the Anarchist Federation (FA) in Paris, France transmitting on 89.4 MHZ. It was founded in 1981. By 1998 it had become one of the ten most popular stations in the Paris region.