hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Wichita Falls Texans
The Wichita Falls Texans were a minor league basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association  from 1988 to 1994. The team was located in Wichita Falls, Texas, and played their games at D.L. Ligon Coliseum, located on the campus of Midwestern State University.  The Texans won the CBA championship in 1991. Lanham Lyne was the owner of the franchise.

The team almost relocated in 1990 when a group of investors led by George Beim approached the owners of Wichita Falls to purchase and relocate the franchise to Hampton, Virginia. The deal fell through when Beim announced he could not get the prerequisite amount of ticket presales to make moving the team financially viable according to the CBA's rules.

During the 1992–93 season, the Texans had 1,250 season ticket holders and averaged an attendance of 2,826 per game. The team became the Chicago Rockers in 1994.

Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɑː/ WITCH-ih-tah) is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the principal city of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Archer, Clay, and Wichita Counties. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 102,316, making it the 43rd-most populous city in Texas. Wichita Falls is home to Midwestern State University, enrolling more than 5,500 students.
Java loach
The Java loach (Pangio oblonga) is a species of tropical freshwater fish, an unbanded kuhli loach, native to the sandy streams of Southeast Asia. Its alternative common names include the black kuhli loach, chocolate kuhli loach and cinnamon loach. It is  common in the aquarium trade.

Loach
Loaches are ray-finned fishes of the suborder Cobitoidei. They are freshwater, benthic (bottom-dwelling) fish found in rivers and creeks throughout Eurasia and northern Africa. Loaches are among the most diverse groups of fish; the 1249 known species of Cobitoidei make up about 107 genera divided among 9 families.
Jan Nicolaas
Johannes Gerardus "Jan" Nicolaas (20 October 1912 – 28 November 2001) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

He was born in The Hague and died in Rijswijk.

In 1936 he was eliminated in the second round of the featherweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming silver medalist Charles Catterall of South Africa.

Rijswijk
Rijswijk (Dutch: [ˈrɛisʋɛik] ⓘ), formerly known as Ryswick (/ˈrɪzwɪk/ RIZ-wik) in English, is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 59.642 in 2024, and it has an area of 14.49 km2 (5.59 sq mi), 0.53 km2 (0.20 sq mi) of which is water.

The municipality also includes the former hamlets of 't Haantje and Sion, currently also known as Rijswijk Buiten.
Ghamka Pailaharu
Ghamka Pailaharu (Nepali: घामका पाइलाहरू) is a 1979 Nepali novel by Dha. Cha. Gotame. The novel depicts the day–to–day life of a nameless town in Tarai region of Nepal, loosely based on Birgunj. Gotame grew up in Birgunj and used the town as the novel's setting. The newly settled town is situated in southern part of central region of Nepal, beside a railway station of the first Nepalese railway (now defunct Nepal Government Railway).

It was originally published in 1979 (2035 BS) by the Sajha Prakashan and won the Madan Puraskar for the same year. The sequel of the novel Yaha Dekhi Tyaha Samma was published in 1984 (2040 BS).

Madan Puraskar
The Madan Puraskar (Nepali: मदन पुरस्कार) is a literary honor in Nepal which Madan Puraskar Guthi confers annually for an outstanding book in the Nepali language published within the calendar year. It is considered as the most prestigious literature award in Nepal. It is awarded on the day of Ghatasthapana every year alongside Jagadamba Shree Puraskar.
Jean-Louis Hue
Jean-Louis Hue (born 22 April 1949 in Évreux) is a French journalist and writer.

Hue studied law and journalism. A freelancer for the magazines Actuel and Lui, he later was appointed deputy editor-in-chief of the ecological monthly Le Sauvage. During the 1980s, he joined Le Magazine Littéraire where he succeeded Jean-Jacques Brochier in 2004 as head of the editorial staff.

Jean-Louis Hue is writer Gaspard Koenig's father.

Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire
Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire, formerly Le Magazine Littéraire, is a French monthly magazine about literature. It is published by Sophia Publications. The headquarters is in Paris. It is available in print as well as online on Cairn.info.

In 2014, it had a circulation of 20,300 copies. The February 2015 issue was edited by author Pierre Assouline.  In October 2020, Claude Perdriel, owner of Sophia Publications, sold Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire to Jean-Jacques Augier and Stéphane Chabenat.
War Zone D
War Zone D was the area in South Vietnam around the Dong Nai River, north of Bien Hoa which served as a Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area and infiltration route during the Vietnam War.

Biên Hòa
Biên Hòa (Northern accent: listenⓘ, Southern accent: listenⓘ) is a former city in Vietnam and was the capital city of Đồng Nai Province. Situated northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (also known as Saigon), Biên Hòa is connected to it via Hanoi Highway (part of National Route 1). As a class-1 provincial city, it is the sixth largest city in Vietnam by population.

Biên Hòa ceased to exist as a municipal city on 1 July 2025, following the elimination of district level units in Vietnam, and became a part of the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area.
Sciapode
Sciapode is a French film production and distribution company headquartered in Paris.  Founded in 2003, the company specializes in producing European feature films, both fictional and documentary, blending different genres and art forms.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑnə teːˈreːzaː dəˈkeːrsmaːkər], born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) is a contemporary dance choreographer. The dance company constructed around her, Rosas, was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007.
Samantha Dodanwela
Samantha Dodanwela (born 15 September 1970) is a Sri Lankan former first-class cricketer who played for the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Dodanwela was a right-arm opening bowler. His best season was in 1995-96, when he took 57 wickets at an average of 13.96, including his best figures of 4 for 33 and 6 for 44 against Tamil Union.

He was later the chairman of Sinhalese Sports Club, and served on some Sri Lanka Cricket committees. He is a tea taster by profession and is the chief executive officer of Mercantile Produce Brokers (Pvt.) Ltd., a tea brokerage company. He serves on the executive committee of the Colombo Tea Traders' Association and on the tea tasting panel of the Sri Lanka Tea Board.

Sri Lanka Cricket
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is the governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka. It was first registered with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Sports as the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka on 30 June 1975 as a national sports body. The board was renamed in 2003.

The SLC operates all of the Sri Lankan national representative cricket sides, including the Men's, Women's, Under-19 and Under-17 sides. The SLC is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and one day internationals with other nations, and scheduling the home international fixtures.
Kosmos 2421
Kosmos 2421 (Cosmos 2421) was a Russian reconnaissance satellite launched in 2006, but began fragmenting in early 2008. It also had the Konus-A science payload designed by Ioffe Institute to detect gamma-ray bursts. Three separate fragmentation events produced about 500 pieces of trackable debris. About half of those had already re-entered Earth's atmosphere by the fall of 2008.

Ioffe Institute
The Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (for short, Ioffe Institute, Russian: Физико-технический институт им. А. Ф. Иоффе) is one of Russia's largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. The institute was established in 1918 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and run for several decades by Abram Ioffe. The institute is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As of June 2024 the Ioffe Institute employed 1977 individuals including both scientific and non-scientific staff.
Novosphingobium
Novosphingobium is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes N. taihuense, which can degrade aromatic compounds such as phenol, aniline, nitrobenzene and phenanthrene. The species N. aromativorans, which was first found in Ulsan Bay, similarly degrades aromatic molecules of two to five rings.

Nitrobenzene
Nitrobenzene is an aromatic nitro compound and the simplest of the nitrobenzenes, with the chemical formula C6H5NO2.  It is a water-insoluble pale yellow oil with an almond-like odor.  It freezes to give greenish-yellow crystals.  It is produced on a large scale from benzene as a precursor to aniline.  In the laboratory, it is occasionally used as a solvent, especially for electrophilic reagents. As confirmed by X-ray crystallography, nitrobenzene is a planar molecule.
Lovington Fire Department Building
The Lovington Fire Department Building, also known as the Lovington Fire Station, is a fire station in Lovington, New Mexico which was built in 1941.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

It is a one-story building with two fire engine bays.   It was built as a Works Progress Administration project during 1941-42 and served as Lovington's city hall, as well as its fire station.

It is optimistically described as having International Style architecture.

A new fire and police department building was constructed in 1984, just to the south;  the historic building continued to serve by providing space for training and as a repair shop.

Fire station
A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment. Fire stations frequently contain working and living space for the firefighters and support staff.

In large U.S. cities, fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49". Other fire stations are named based on the settlement, neighborhood or street where they are located, or given a number.
Fanini–Seven Up
Fanini–Seven Up was an Italian professional cycling team that existed from 1984 to 1988.

The team went through several different name changes before being known as Fanini–Seven Up for its final season.

The team was selected to race in five editions of the Giro d'Italia, where they achieved four stage wins as well as the young rider classification in 1988 by Stefano Tomasini.

Young rider classification in the Giro d'Italia
The Young rider classification in the Giro d'Italia was added to the Giro d'Italia in 1976 for the younger riders in the race. The classification is calculated in the same way as the general classification, with the riders times being totaled together after each stage; however, the classification is restricted to those no older than 25 years during the calendar year of the race. Between 1976 and 1994 the classification had different qualifications. The leader of the classification is awarded a white jersey (maglia bianca).

The classification was discontinued after the 1994 Giro d'Italia. However, it was reintroduced in 2007, with the age limit increased to 25 years.
J Vineyards & Winery
J Vineyards & Winery is a California winery founded in 1986, and located in the Russian River Valley AVA of Sonoma County, California. It has been owned and operated by E & J Gallo since 2015.

J Vineyards & Winery was founded in 1986 by Judy Jordan. They are noted for their sparking wine, pinot noir, zinfandel, viognier, and pinot gris.

Russian River Valley AVA
Russian River Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in Sonoma County, California located in the Russian River Valley landform. The wine appellation was established on October 21, 1983, as the nation's 53rd, the state's 34th and the county's sixth AVA by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by the Appellation Committee, on behalf of twenty local vintners and growers, proposing an approximately 150 sq mi (96,000-acre) viticultural area in Sonoma County to be kmown as "Russian River Valley."

The area generally lies between Sebastopol and Santa Rosa in the south, and Forestville and Healdsburg in the north. The Russian River Valley has a characteristically cool climate, heavily affected by fog generated by the valley's proximity to the Pacific Ocean. The area is known for its success with cool climate varietals, notably Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The plant hardiness zone ranges from 9a to 10a.
Eugene Scalia
Eugene Scalia (born August 14, 1963) is an American lawyer who served as the 28th United States Secretary of Labor during the final 16 months of the first Trump administration from 2019 to 2021. Scalia previously served as the United States Solicitor of Labor under President George W. Bush. He is a son of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

Scalia was described by The New York Times as "a skilled lawyer with a broadly conservative, pro-business and anti-regulatory agenda". As Secretary of Labor, he reversed Obama-era labor and employment regulations. He returned to become a partner at Gibson Dunn at the end of his tenure.

United States Secretary of Education
The United States secretary of education is the head of the United States Department of Education. The secretary serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States, and the federal government, on policies, programs, and activities related to all education in the United States. As a member of the Cabinet of the United States, the secretary is sixteenth in the line of succession to the presidency. Prior to its creation as an Executive Department, there was a non-Cabinet level position called the United States commissioner of education who led the United States Office of Education.

The current secretary of education is Linda McMahon, serving in this role under President Donald Trump.
1919–20 FA Cup qualifying rounds
The 1919–20 FA Cup was the 45th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup), and the first since the cancellation of all football competitions owing to the First World War.

The qualifying phase of the competition, in which a total of 384 clubs competed, comprised eight rounds: an extra preliminary, preliminary and six sequentially numbered qualifying rounds. Twelve teams progressed from the last of these to the first round proper

Hednesford Town F.C.
Hednesford Town Football Club is a football club based in Hednesford, Staffordshire, England. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Premier Division and play at Keys Park. They won the FA Trophy in 2004.
Crepedula
Crepedula was an ancient Roman–Berber civitas in the province of Byzacena in Africa Proconsularis. It was located in modern Tunisia. The town was also the seat of a Catholic diocese.

There are three known bishops of this diocese.

The Catholic bishop Barbarianus Creperulensis attended the Council of Carthage (411), he had no Donatists competitors.

Felix was among the Catholic bishops summoned to Carthage in 484 by the Vandal king Huneric.

Finally, among the signatories of a letter  against monothelitism dated 646 was Speranza.

Today Crepedula survives as titular bishopric and the current bishop is Karl Borsch, of Aachen.

Civitas
In Ancient Rome, a civitas (Latin pronunciation: [ˈkiːwɪtaːs]; plural civitates), sometimes translated as "city", was the social body of the cives, or citizens, united by their laws, which gave them responsibilities (Latin: munera) on the one hand, and rights on the other. The agreement (concilium) has a life of its own, creating a res publica or "public entity" (synonymous with civitas), into which individuals are born or accepted, and from which they die or are ejected. The civitas is not just the collective body of all the citizens; it is the contract binding them all together, because each of them is a civis.
Jacek Kochan
Jacek Kochan (born 1955) is a Polish-born drummer, composer, arranger and music producer. After having started his adventures in music in Poland in the seventies, he moved in the early eighties first to New York City and then to Canada. There he worked with among many others Michel Donato, Karen Young, Andrew Leroux, Yannick Rieu, Oliver Jones, Jean-Pierre Zanella, Michel Cusson, John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Pat Labarbera and Kenny Wheeler.

In 1995, he returned to Europe where he continued to compose, play, tour and record music with artists like Brian Conlon Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, Marc Copland, Gary Thomas, Joey Calderazzo, Palle Mikkelborg and Eddie Henderson. Kochan has released several albums as a leader. Among those are One Eyed Horse (2004) and Yearning (2006).

Joey Calderazzo
Joseph Dominick Calderazzo (February 27, 1965) is an American jazz pianist and brother of musician Gene Calderazzo. He played extensively in bands led by Michael Brecker and Branford Marsalis, and has also led his own bands.
Jaray
Jaray is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Hans Jaray (1906−1990), Austrian actor, director, and author

Paul Jaray (1889−1974), Hungarian engineer, designer, and pioneer of automotive streamlining

Tess Jaray (born 1937), British painter and printmaker

Tess Jaray
Tess Jaray  RA (born 1937) is a British painter and printmaker. She taught at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL from 1968 until 1999. Over the last twenty years Jaray has completed a succession of major public art projects. She was made an Honorary Fellow of RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects) in 1995 and a Royal Academician in 2010 and later a Senior RA in 2013. In 2017 she received an honorary award from Norwich University of the Arts in recognition of her outstanding contribution to fine art and fine art education. In 2025 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London (UAL).
Gordon Britton
Gordon Richard Britton (born 10 September 1939) is a Welsh former international rugby union player.

Born in Risca, Monmouthshire, Britton was educated at Pontymister Secondary School and spent most of his career with Newport, which he joined in 1959 from hometown club Risca RFC.

Britton gained a Wales cap as a centre against Scotland at Murrayfield in the 1961 Five Nations.

In 1966, Britton played for Newport against the touring Wallabies and late in the match suffered a head knock after being tackled by three Australian players. He had to be given mouth-to-mouth on the pitch by the Newport club doctor due to breathing difficulties and went to hospital with concussion.

1961 Five Nations Championship
The 1961 Five Nations Championship was the thirty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the sixty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 7 January and 15 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Fishcombe Cove
Fishcombe Cove is a small shingle beach on the south-west coast of England, on the outskirts of Brixham. The beach is surrounded by woodland, and an entrance to Churston Woods is located above Fishcombe Cove. It is important for its eelgrass beds, breeding grounds for native seahorses. It is on the South West Coast Path.

Seahorse
A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus. The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek hippókampos (ἱππόκαμπος), itself from híppos (ἵππος) meaning "horse" and kámpos (κάμπος) meaning "sea monster" or "sea animal". Having a head and neck suggestive of a horse, seahorses also feature segmented bony armour, an upright posture and a curled prehensile tail. Along with the pipefishes and seadragons (Phycodurus and Phyllopteryx) they form the family Syngnathidae.
Vesca
Vesca (pronounced [ˈʋeːstsa]; in older sources also Vesce), German: Wesze is a small settlement in the Municipality of Vodice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It lies in the middle of the Skaručna Basin (Slovene: Skaruško polje).

Upper Carniola
Littoral

Carniola: 2a Upper, 2b Inner, 2c Lower

Carinthia

Styria

Prekmurje

Upper Carniola (Slovene: Gorenjska pronounced [ɡɔˈɾèːnska]; Italian: Alta Carniola; German: Oberkrain) is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The largest town in the region is Kranj, and other urban centers include Kamnik, Jesenice, Domžale and Škofja Loka. It has around 300,000 inhabitants or 14% of the population of Slovenia.
Entre Ríos (band)
Entre Ríos is an Argentine indietronica band originally formed in Buenos Aires by Sebastián Carreras, Gabriel Lucena and Isol (Marisol Misenta) in 2000. They became popular when the song "Hoy no" was used in a Quilmes spot.

In 2005 Isol left the group the release of their album Onda. She was replaced by Paula Meijide, who was part of the band until 2006. In 2008, Rosario Ortega and Romina Dangelo joined Entre Ríos as the vocalist and drummer respectively.

They have performed many gigs around Spain and Latin America, and were a big influence for other groups such as Miranda! and Belanova.

Cerveza Quilmes
Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes (locally [seɾβeseˈɾi.aj malteˈɾi.a ˈkilmes]) is an Argentine drink company founded in 1890 in the city of Quilmes in Greater Buenos Aires. The company was established by Otto Bemberg, a German immigrant, in 1890 as a beer manufacturer. Since 2002, Quilmes is owned by AmBev, the largest beer manufacturer in the world.

Apart from beer, the company bottles and commercialises bottled waters, soft drinks, sport drinks, energy drinks, and wines, through several brands (some of them properties of parent company Ambev and other brands under licenses of PepsiCo, Nestlé, among others).

Quilmes has manufactured several varieties of beer through the years, such as low-alcohol, bock, stout, lager, red lager, lager, and pilsner. Quilmes is the largest beer manufacturer of Argentina.
1921 Birmingham Moseley by-election
The 1921 Birmingham Moseley by-election was held on 4 March 1921 after the resignation of the incumbent Coalition Conservative MP, Hallewell Rogers.  It was retained by the Coalition Conservative candidate Patrick Hannon who was unopposed.

Hallewell Rogers
Sir Hallewell Rogers, DL (25 February 1864 – 16 November 1931) was a British Conservative politician who was Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Birmingham.

Rogers was elected Lord Mayor of Birmingham in November 1902, serving two consecutive terms until November 1904. He stood for the Liberal Unionist Party, a Liberal breakaway faction led by fellow Brummie Joseph Chamberlain. The party in 1912 merged with the Conservative party, for which Rogers later entered parliament.

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 3rd South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, in 1913.

Rogers was elected member of parliament for Birmingham Moseley at the 1918 General Election. He resigned in 1920, precipitating a by-election in March 1921.

In 1925, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant for Warwickshire.
Xestoso
Xestoso (Spanish: San José Gestoso) is one of four parroquias, a parish (administrative division) in Villanueva de Oscos, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.

It is 8.5 km (5.3 mi) from Villanueva, the capital of the municipality.

Situated at 817 m (2,680 ft) above sea level, it is 12.85 km2 (4.96 sq mi) in size, with a population of 91.

Parish (administrative division)
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish, the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below.

The table below lists countries which use this administrative division: