hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Xi Xi
Xi Xi (Chinese: 西西; Cantonese Yale: sāi sāi; pinyin: Xī Xī; 7 October 1937 – 18 December 2022) was the pseudonym of the Hong Kong author and poet Ellen Cheung Yin (Chinese: 張彥; Cantonese Yale: jēung yin; pinyin: Zhāng Yàn). She was born in Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong at the age of twelve. She was formerly a teacher and had been a Hong Kong–based writer. Her works are also popular in Taiwan and mainland China. She had become a rather well-known figure to many secondary school students in Hong Kong. This was due in particular to one of her essays, "Shops" (店鋪), which was adopted as reading material for the Chinese Language paper in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) by the Hong Kong Examinations Authority of the time. In 2019, Xi Xi was the recipient of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. In the Cantonese dub of the South Park episode, Weight Gain 4000, Kathy Lee Gifford is dubbed as Xi Xi.

Ming Pao
Ming Pao (Chinese: 明報) is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Media Chinese International in Hong Kong. In a 2022 survey from the Chinese University of Hong Kong sampling 994 local households, Ming Pao was listed as the second most credible paid newspaper in Hong Kong.

In the 1990s, Ming Pao established four overseas branches in North America; each provides independent reporting on local news and collects local advertisements. The last of these branches, the Canadian editions serving the Vancouver and Toronto areas, ended their operations in January 2026.
Roy Williams (cricketer)
Norman Roy Williams (born 4 January 1931) is a former English cricketer.  Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled fast-medium.  He was born at March, Cambridgeshire.

In 1949, Williams made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Cambridgeshire against Lincolnshire.  From 1949 to 1951, he represented the county in 3 Minor Counties matches.   Williams joined Cumberland in 1964, where he represented the county in 6 Minor Counties matches.  His final appearance for Cumberland came against the Lancashire Second XI.  He also played Minor Counties cricket for the Nottinghamshire Second XI.

Williams also played a first-class match for the Combined Services against Nottinghamshire in 1961. In his only first-class match, he scored took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 20.20, with best figures of 4/67.

Combined Services cricket team
The Combined Services cricket team represents the British Armed Forces. The team played at first-class level in England for more than 40  years in the mid-20th century. Their first first-class match was against Gentlemen of England at Lord's in 1920, while their last was against Oxford University at Aldershot in 1964. Combined Services have continued to play cricket thereafter, albeit at minor level.
Methyl halide transferase
Methyl halide transferase (EC 2.1.1.165, MCT, methyl chloride transferase, S-adenosyl-L-methionine:halide/bisulfide methyltransferase, AtHOL1, AtHOL2, AtHOL3, HMT, S-adenosyl-L-methionine: halide ion methyltransferase, SAM:halide ion methyltransferase) is an enzyme with systematic name S-adenosylmethionine:iodide methyltransferase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

S-adenosyl-L-methionine + iodide  S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine + methyl iodide

This enzyme contributes to the methyl halide emissions from Arabidopsis thaliana.

Arabidopsis thaliana
Arabidopsis thaliana, the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small plant from the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to Eurasia and Africa. Commonly found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land, it is generally considered a weed.

A winter annual with a relatively short lifecycle, A. thaliana is a popular model organism in plant biology and genetics. For a complex multicellular eukaryote, A. thaliana has a relatively small genome of around 135 megabase pairs. It was the first plant to have its genome sequenced, and is an important tool for understanding the molecular biology of many plant traits, including flower development and light sensing.
Rex Thomas
Rex Beauford Thomas (April 16, 1902 – March 28, 1955) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for five seasons for the Brooklyn Lions, Cleveland Bulldogs, Detroit Wolverines, and Brooklyn Dodgers. He later lived in Sterling, Colorado where he worked in the oilfield industry. Rex married Cleo Geyer and had 2 children; Rex Buford Thomas, Jr born August 1, 1925 and Joann Thomas. Thomas was killed in an automobile collision on March 28, 1955, near Sterling.

Sterling, Colorado
Sterling is a home rule municipality and the county seat and most populous municipality of Logan County, Colorado, United States.  The city population was 13,735 at the 2020 census.  Sterling is the largest city in the Eastern Plains region of Colorado and the site of the domed Logan County Courthouse, built in 1909. The city is also home to Northeastern Junior College, enrolling over 1,500 students annually.
Shustovo, Kursk Oblast
Shustovo (Russian: Шустово) is a rural locality (Russian: село, lit. 'village') in Platavsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Konyshyovsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Population:  264 (2010 Census); 417 (2002 Census);

Konyshyovsky District
Konyshyovsky District (Russian: Конышёвский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwestern central part of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,135 square kilometers (438 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Konyshyovka. Population: 8,425 (2021 Census); 10,594 (2010 Census);  15,155 (2002 Census); 19,234 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Konyshyovka accounts for 42.7% of the district's total population.
Harry Humphries
Harry R. Humphries (born November 17, 1940) is a former United States Navy SEAL who currently works as a consultant and actor in Hollywood films. After graduating from Admiral Farragut Academy and attending Rutgers University in New Jersey, Humphries joined the Navy where he was assigned to UDT 22 and SEAL Team 2. In 1971 Humphries left the Navy with an Honorable Discharge. After a career with Henkel KGaA, the German Multi National Chemical Company, he moved to California, where he started Global Study Group, Inc. ("GSGI"). Humphries currently resides in Huntington Beach, California where he works full-time as a Security Consultant and Entertainment Technical Adviser/Actor.

Admiral Farragut Academy
Admiral Farragut Academy, established in 1933, is a private, college-preparatory school serving students in grades K–12. Farragut is located in St. Petersburg, Florida in Pinellas County and is surrounded by the communities of Treasure Island, Gulfport, Pasadena, Tierra Verde, and Seminole.
Codex Veronensis
The Codex Veronensis is a 5th-century Latin manuscript of the four Gospels, written on vellum which has been dyed purple. It is designated by the siglum b in the critical editions of Nestle-Åland and the UBS Greek New Testament, and 4 in the Beuron system of New Testament Latin manuscripts. The text is written in silver and occasionally gold ink, and is a version of the old Latin New Testament Gospels. The Gospels follow in the Western order.

Scribal abbreviation
Scribal abbreviations, or sigla (singular: siglum), are abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Old English and Old Norse.

In modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) sigla are the symbols used to indicate the source manuscript (e.g. variations in text between different such manuscripts).
Dream Island (amusement park)
Dream Island (Russian: Остров мечты; Ostrov mechty) is an amusement park in Moscow that opened 29 February 2020. It is the largest indoor theme park in Europe.

The park is located in the Nagatinskaya Poima, in the Nagatinsky Zaton district of Moscow's Southern Administrative Okrug.

Nagatinsky Zaton District
Nagatinsky Zaton District (Russian: район Нагатинский Затон) is a district in Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia, located on the right bank of the Moskva River. The name Nagatino comes from a former village, known since the 14th century, which was engulfed by Moscow in 1960. District authorities control Kolomenskoye park, four permanently uninhabited islands on Moskva River and the peninsula of Nagatino Poima on its opposite, northern bank.

Nagatino-Sadovniki is a different district, west of Nagatinsky Zaton.
Castrillón (surname)
Castrillón is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Álvaro Mejía Castrillón (born 1967), Colombian road bicycle racer

Jaime Castrillón (born 1983), Colombian footballer

Manuel Fernández Castrillón (c. 1780–1836), major general in the Mexican army

Eduardo Crespo y García-Castrillón, 8th Count of Castillo Fiel (fl. 1963–1989), Spanish aristocrat

Darío Castrillón Hoyos (1929–2018), Colombian Cardinal of the Catholic Church

Eduardo Crespo, 8th Count of Castillo Fiel
Don Eduardo Crespo y García-Castrillón (? – 29 May 1989 in Madrid) was a Spanish aristocrat, son of Don Fernando Isabel Crespo y Martín-Romero and wife Doña María del Carmen García-Castrillón y ..., and paternal grandson of Don Eduardo Antonio Crespo y Gálvez del Postigo  and wife Doña María Martín-Romero y Godoy di Bassano, 5th Countess of Castillo Fiel.

He was 8th Conde de Castillo Fiel with a Coat of Arms of de Tudó (8 November 1963). He married María Luisa Sampere Marzal (member of the rural landowning Marzal family of Olivenza, Province of Badajoz). It is not known if he had children. The title ended upon his death.
Thick Noon
Thick Noon is the debut album from comedian Nick Thune released by Comedy Central Records on February 23, 2010. The CD contains live tracks as well studio songs. Packaged with a DVD containing various video footage. The title is a spoonerism of his name.

Comedy Central Records
Comedy Central Records is a record label based in New York and owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation. The label specializes in stand-up comedy albums and is distributed by Alternative Distribution Alliance, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The label has released albums from artists such as Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Dave Attell, Amy Schumer and Kevin Hart. As of December 2016, Comedy Central Records has issued over 200 albums.
Eremophila veneta
Eremophila veneta, commonly known as metallic-flowered eremophila is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, sticky shrub with dark green leaves and bluish-green petals.

Glabrousness
Glabrousness (from Latin  glaber 'bald, hairless, shaved, smooth, etc.') is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes, or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of a plant or animal, or be due to loss because of a physical condition, such as alopecia universalis in humans, which causes hair to fall out or not regrow.
Neocallimastix
Neocallimastix is a genus of obligately anaerobic rumen fungi in the family Neocallimastigaceae. A specialised group of chytrids grow in the rumen of herbivorous animals, where they degrade cellulose and thus play a primary role in the complex microbial ecology of the rumen.

Rumen
The rumen, also known as a paunch, is the largest stomach compartment in ruminants. The rumen and the reticulum make up the reticulorumen in ruminant animals. The diverse microbial communities in the rumen allows it to serve as the primary site for microbial fermentation of ingested feed, which is often fiber-rich roughage typically indigestible by mammalian digestive systems. The rumen is known for containing unique microbial networks within its multiple sac compartments to break down nutrients into usable energy and fatty acids.
Morris Review
The Morris Review was a government-sponsored independent review of the UK actuarial profession led by Sir Derek Morris in 2004–05. It was commissioned in March 2004, in the aftermath of the near collapse of Equitable Life, and the subsequent findings of Lord Penrose's Equitable Life Inquiry The review found a number of problems with the actuarial profession, including insularity of approach, lack of transparency, failure to take account of developments in financial economics, and the influence of 'entrenched commercial interests'.

The recommendations steered a course between continued self-regulation by the Institute of Actuaries, and full statutory regulation, concluding that the Financial Reporting Council should assume responsibility for oversight of the actuarial profession and the independent setting of actuarial technical standards. This took place with effect from May 2006.

Financial Reporting Council
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is an independent regulator in the UK and Ireland based in London Wall in the City of London, responsible for regulating auditors, accountants and actuaries, and setting the UK's Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. The FRC seeks to promote transparency and integrity in business by aiming its work at investors and others who rely on company reports, audits and high-quality risk management.

In December 2018, an independent review of the FRC, led by Sir John Kingman, recommended its replacement by a new Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority, a recommendation that the government agreed to follow in March 2019 but later delayed.

Ireland adopted the FRC's auditing framework in 2017.
Kashana Home
Kashana Home is a shelter home for the destitute and orphaned girls located in Lahore, Pakistan. It was established in 1973 by the city district government of Lahore.

Kashana Home made headlines in 2020 when its former superintendent accused Punjab minister Ajmal Cheema of 'misconduct' at the facility.

The organisation was first established as Kashana Welfare Home for destitute girls and women in 1973 in Lahore. After the Lahore facility was founded,  two more Kashana Homes were established by the government in Rawalpindi and Sargodha.

Muhammad Ajmal Cheema
Muhammad Ajmal Cheema (born 13 January 1960) is a Pakistani politician who was the  Provincial Minister of Punjab for Bait-ul-Mal and Social Welfare, in office from 13 September 2018 to 19 July 2019. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since August 2018 until May 2022.
Nicolaus Mameranus
Nicolaus Mameranus (6 December 1500 – 1567) was a Luxembourgish soldier and historian under Charles V, for whom he travelled widely, recording faithfully the composition of foreign courts and the customs of foreign countries. All his writings are in Latin.  Mameranus was born in Mamer, probably as Nik Wagener. He was a Roman Catholic.

Mameranus succeeded in having Charles V pay for the restoration of his native Mamer after the Duke of Orléans' troops pillaged it in 1543. In 1555, Charles V appointed him poet laureate and Count Palatine in recognition of his continued support.

He probably died in Augsburg, Germany, in 1567.

Count palatine
A count palatine (Latin comes palatinus), also count of the palace or palsgrave (from German Pfalzgraf), was originally an official attached to a royal or imperial palace or household and later a nobleman of a rank above that of an ordinary count. The title originated in the Late Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages especially and into modern times, it is associated with the Holy Roman Empire, especially Electoral Palatinate.

The office, jurisdiction or territory of a count palatine was a county palatine or palatinate. In England the forms earl palatine and palatine earldom are rare alternative terms.
Hisakawa
Hisakawa (written: 久川) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aya Hisakawa (久川 綾, born 1968), Japanese voice actress and singer

Toyoaki Hisakawa (久川 豊昌), Japanese wheelchair fencer

Aya Hisakawa
Aya Hisakawa (久川 綾, Hisakawa Aya; born November 12, 1968) is a Japanese voice actress and singer. In addition to releasing various solo CDs, Hisakawa is well known for her voice roles in anime and video games. Some of her major roles are Retsu Unohana in Bleach, Sailor Mercury in Sailor Moon, Skuld in Oh My Goddess!, Miki Kaoru in Revolutionary Girl Utena, Yuri Tsukikage/Cure Moonlight in HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Kero in Cardcaptor Sakura, Haruko Kamio in Air, Kaoru Sayama in the Yakuza Series since Kiwami 2 and Michie Matsumoto in Sound! Euphonium. She performs some of her roles in her native Kansai-ben. She is affiliated with Aoni Production. On February 14, 2018, she was announced as the new voice of Bulma in the Dragon Ball series, replacing original voice actress Hiromi Tsuru, who had held the role from the original anime's debut in 1986 to her death in 2017.
Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib (born 25 March 1950 in Metzingen, Germany) is a German artist, predominantly known as a sculptor. He lives and works in a small village in southern Germany, maintaining studios in New York and South India.

His work has been exhibited worldwide in many of the most important galleries and museums. He represented Germany in the 1982, Venice Biennale and was included  with his works in the Documenta 7 in 1982, and then in the Documenta 8 in 1987. In 2015, he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in Tokyo, Japan.

He became world-renowned for his "Milkstones", a pure geometry of white marble made complete with milk, as well as his vibrant installations of pollen. In 2013 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented his largest pollen piece – 7 m × 8 m – in the central atrium of the museum.

Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann (11 June 1933 – 18 February 2005) was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator.
It is believed that Szeemann elevated curating to a legitimate art form itself.
2013 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup
The 2013 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup was the 18th season of the Icelandic Men's League Cup, a pre-season professional football competition in Iceland. The competition started on 15 February 2013 and concluded on 27 April 2013. KR were the reigning champions, having won their fifth League Cup last year.

The 24 teams from the Úrvalsdeild karla and 1. deild karla were divided into 3 groups of 8 teams. Every team played every other team of its group once, home, away or on a neutral ground for a total of 7 games. Each group winner, each runner-up and the two best third-place finishes entered the quarter-finals.

1. deild karla (football)
1. deild karla, known as Lengjudeild karla (The Lengja League) for sponsorship reasons, is an association football league in Iceland. It is the second highest professional level in the Icelandic football league system. The league was founded in 1955 and current champions are Þór. The league was expanded to 12 teams for the 2007 season, after having only 10 teams for many years. Since 2008 the top three divisions have all had 12 teams.
Ivelet Bridge
Ivelet Bridge is a historic structure in Ivelet, a hamlet in North Yorkshire, in England.

The packhorse bridge over the River Swale was constructed in the late 16th century. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "the most romantic of the Swaledale bridges. One arch, rising very high and never widened".  It was grade II* listed in 1966.  The bridge was damaged by a vehicle in 2012, but was repaired ahead of the 2014 Tour de France passing nearby.

The bridge is built of rubble, and consists of a single semicircular arch of voussoirs, surmounted by smaller stones forming a hood mould. The parapets have segmental coping, and they curve round at the northeast corner.  Immediately to its northeast is a separately listed Mediaeval stone slab, said to have been used to rest coffins being transported to the Church of St Andrew, Grinton.

Packhorse bridge
A packhorse bridge is a bridge intended to carry packhorses (horses loaded with sidebags or panniers) across a river or stream. Typically a packhorse bridge consists of one or more narrow (one horse wide) masonry arches, and has low parapets so as not to interfere with the panniers borne by the horses. Multi-arched examples sometimes have triangular cutwaters that are extended upward to form pedestrian refuges.: 24–25

Packhorse bridges were often built on the trade routes (often called packhorse routes) that formed major transport arteries across Europe and Great Britain until the coming of the turnpike roads and canals in the 18th century. Before the road-building efforts of Napoleon, all crossings of the Alps were on packhorse trails. Travellers' carriages were dismantled and transported over the mountain passes by ponies and mule trains.
Ardara, Pennsylvania
Ardara is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 993, 2.9 miles (4.7 km) northwest of Irwin. Ardara has a post office, with ZIP code 15615, which opened on May 6, 1907.

Irwin, Pennsylvania
Irwin is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,902 at the 2020 census. Located 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, some of the most extensive bituminous coal deposits in the commonwealth are located in Irwin. In the past, iron foundries, flour mills, car shops, facing and planing mills, electrical goods and mirror factories were based in the borough.
Rupert de Smidt
Rupert de Smidt (23 November 1883 – 3 August 1986) was a South African cricketer who played first-class cricket for Western Province. He is the fifth oldest of the 23 first-class cricketers known to have surpassed 100 years of age.

Born in Cape Town, de Smidt played four matches for Western Province during the 1912/13 season. A leg break bowler he took 16 wickets at an average of 18.00, finishing his only first-class season as Western Province's leading wicket-taker. His best bowling figures of 4/40 came on his debut against Transvaal after he had taken 4/65 in the first innings.

De Smidt was a lower order batsman, batting at number eight in four of his five innings. He scored 74 runs at an average of 18.50, with a highest score of 42 not out against Orange Free State.

De Smidt died aged 102 years 253 days in Cape Town. His Wisden obituary stated he "was believed to be the oldest first-class cricketer". The record passed to Jim Hutchinson in August 1999.

Innings
An innings is one of the divisions of a cricket match during which one team takes its turn to bat. Innings also means the period in which an individual player bats (acts as either striker or nonstriker). In cricket and rounders, "innings" is both singular and plural; this contrasts with baseball and softball in which the singular is "inning".
André Schadt
André Schadt is a retired German swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1986 World Aquatics Championships. He also won two gold medals in freestyle relays at the European Championships in 1985 and 1989. In 1986 and 1989 he won the national championships in the 100 m freestyle event.

He retired from swimming in 1991.

1986 World Aquatics Championships
The 1986 World Aquatics Championships took place in M86 Swimming Center in Madrid, Spain between August 13 and August 23, 1986, with 1119 participating athletes. In swimming, the 50 m freestyle events and women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay were held for the first time.
Canton of Côte d'Argent
The canton of Côte d'Argent is an administrative division of the Landes department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Mimizan.

Mimizan
Mimizan (French pronunciation: [mimizɑ̃]; Occitan: Mamisan) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France. There are two separate districts of the town: Mimizan-Bourg (town center) and Mimizan-Plage (resort).