hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
G.V.P. Samarasinghe
G.V.P. Samarasinghe, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former Permanent Secretary of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Cabinet Secretary. Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, he is a graduate from the University College, Colombo.

Permanent secretary
A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities. Permanent secretaries are the non-political civil service chief executives of government departments or ministries, who generally hold their position for a number of years (thus "permanent") at a ministry as distinct from the changing political secretaries of state to whom they report and provide advice. The role originated in the civil service of the United Kingdom and has been adopted in several Commonwealth countries as well as other countries influenced by the Westminster system.
June Schneider
June Schneider (née Benjamin; 15 June 1939 – 22 July 2020) was a South African musicologist, composer and lecturer. She is known for her research on Richard Strauss, contributions to electronic music, and her involvement in music therapy and adult education in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.
A champion of music and dance, esteemed professor, and critic she obtained her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand at the age of 23—the youngest doctoral candidate in the university's history.

Michael Blake (composer)
Michael Blake (born 31 October 1951) is a South African contemporary classical music composer and performer. He studied in Johannesburg in the 1970s and was associated with conceptual art and the emergence of an indigenous experimental music aesthetic. In 1976 he embarked on 'African Journal', a series of pieces for Western instruments that drew on his studies of traditional African music and aesthetics, which continued to expand during two decades in London until he returned to South Africa in 1998. From around 2000 African music becomes less explicit on the surface of his compositions, but elements of rhythm and repetition remain as part of a more postcolonial engagement with material and form. He works in a range of styles including minimalism and collage, and now also forages for source material from the entire musical canon.
Far Rockaway–Lockwood's Grove station
Far Rockaway–Lockwood's Grove is a former station on the Long Island Rail Road's Cedarhurst Cut-off that was located between Beach 21st Street and Beach 22nd Street in Far Rockaway, Queens. The old station house was located roughly between the present Wavecrest and Mott Avenue stations when the entire line was at grade.

Far Rockaway
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood extends from Beach 32nd Street east to the Nassau  County line. Its southern boundary is the Atlantic Ocean; it is one of the neighborhoods along Rockaway Beach.

Far Rockaway is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Codes are 11691 and  11693. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 101st Precinct.
ZPC Het Ravijn
Zwem en Polo Club Het Ravijn is a Dutch water sports club from Nijverdal founded in 1961. It is best known for its women's water polo team, which has won four national championships since 2000. It reached the final of the Women's LEN Trophy in 2006 and 2011, but it lost them against Budapest Honvéd and Rapallo respectively.

Pro Recco
A.S.D. Pro Recco (Official name: Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Pro Recco) is an Italian professional water polo club from Recco, in Liguria. It currently plays in Serie A1.

Pro Recco is the most successful club in men's water polo. In men's domestic water polo, the club has won a record 56 trophies: a record 37 Serie A1 titles, a record 19 Coppa Italia. In men's LEN European competitions, Pro Recco have won a record 21 trophies: a record 11 European Aquatics Champions League titles, a record 9 European Aquatics Super Cup titles and 1 European Aquatics Euro Cup. The club has also won 1 Adriatic League title.

In women's water polo, the women's team won 1 women's Serie A1 titles, 1 LEN Euro League Women title, 1 Women's LEN Super Cup, making Pro Recco the first sports club in history to have been crowned European Champions with both its men's and women's teams.
Twekkelo
Twekkelo  is a hamlet in Twente, in the province of Overijssel. It is located between Enschede and Hengelo. It had 240 registered inhabitants in 2008.

Until 1934, it fell, for administrative purposes, within the ambit of Lonneker, but, in that year, Lonneker was abolished for administrative purposes, and both are now administered as districts of Enschede.

Overijssel
Overijssel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌoːvərˈɛisəl] ⓘ; Dutch Low Saxon: Oaveriessel [ˌɒːvərˈiːsl̩]; German: Oberyssel; lit. 'Outer IJssel') is a province of the Netherlands located in the eastern part of the country. The province borders Drenthe to the north, Friesland to the north-west, Flevoland (and a small part of the IJsselmeer) to the west, Gelderland to the south and west, and Germany's states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia to the east. Overijssel had a population of about 1,184,000 as of January 2023.

The province's name comes from the perspective of the Episcopal principality of Utrecht, which held the territory until 1528. The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle (pop. 132,441) and the largest city is Enschede (pop. 161,235). The land mostly consists of grasslands and some forests (including Sallandse Heuvelrug National Park).
Colman McCarthy
Colman McCarthy (March 24, 1938 – February 27, 2026) was an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist and long-time peace activist. He directed the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. from 1969 to 1997, and wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." Smithsonian magazine said he was "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He wrote for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Reader's Digest. Beginning in 1999, he wrote biweekly columns for National Catholic Reporter.

National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) is a national newspaper in the United States that reports on issues related to the Catholic Church. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, NCR was founded by Robert Hoyt in 1964. Hoyt wanted to bring the professional standards of secular news reporting to the press that covers Catholic news, saying that "if the mayor of a city owned its only newspaper, its citizens will not learn what they need and deserve to know about its affairs". The publication, which operates outside the authority of the Catholic Church, is independently owned and governed by a lay board of directors.
Olga Gorbunova
Olga Konstantinovna Gorbunova (Russian: Ольга Константиновна Горбунова, née Belova; born 27 August 1993) is a Russian water polo player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed for the Russia women's national water polo team in the women's event.

Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The water polo tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom was held at the London 2012 Water Polo Arena in the Olympic Park from 29 July to 12 August. The venue's capacity held 5,000 spectators. Twelve teams competed in the men's tournament and eight teams in the women's tournament.
2001 Dallas Cowboys season
The 2001 Dallas Cowboys season was the team's 42nd in the National Football League (NFL) and second under head coach Dave Campo. The Cowboys matched their record from the season before, going 5–11 and missing the playoffs, finishing last in the NFC East. For the first time since 1988, Troy Aikman was not on the Cowboys roster as quarterback, as the three-time Super Bowl champion retired, after playing for the team from 1989 to 2000. For the only time, Pat Summerall and John Madden did not call any Cowboys games for Fox all year.

2000 Dallas Cowboys season
The 2000 season was the Dallas Cowboys' 41st in the National Football League (NFL). Cowboys owner Jerry Jones promoted the team's long-time defensive coordinator, Dave Campo, to be the fifth head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. For the first time since 1987 Michael Irvin was not on the opening day roster. This was also Troy Aikman's last season with the team.
Kealiʻi
Kealiʻi is a Hawaiian given name. Notable people include:

Kealiʻi Ah Yat, American football player

Kealiʻi Blaisdell (born 1972), American musician

Kealiʻi Lopez, Hawaiian activist and former chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii

Kealiʻi Reichel (born 1962), Hawaiian musician

Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu (born 1959), Hawaiian chanter

Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu
Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu (born August 10, 1959) is a contemporary Hawaiian chanter, who was born and raised in ʻAiea, Oʻahu. He is best known for his contributions to the soundtrack of the 2002 Disney animated film, Lilo & Stitch, providing the film's two non-Elvis Presley-related songs.
His style is both innovative and controversial, as purists disapprove of the liberties he takes in creating new arrangements of ancient chants.
Roller hockey at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Squads and statistics
Below are listed the squad constitutions for every nation which presented a team to the roller hockey competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Along with the rosters are also displayed total statistics per player and some general competition statistics.

Spain at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Spain was the host nation for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The Games were quite exceptional for Spain because their athletes were competing not only in their home country, but also in the home city of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. 422 competitors, 297 men and 125 women, took part in 195 events in 29 sports.
Inagawa, Hyōgo
Inagawa (猪名川町, Inagawa-chō) is a town located in Kawabe District in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2022, the town had an estimated population of 29,579 in 12,552 households and a population density of 330 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 90.33 square kilometres (34.88 sq mi).

Nose Electric Railway
The Nose Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (能勢電鉄株式会社, Nose Dentetsu) (pronounced No-say), occasionally abbreviated as Nose Railway or Noseden (能勢電), is a Japanese private railway company headquartered in Kawanishi, Hyogo, which links several areas in the mountainous Nose, Osaka, area to Kawanishi-noseguchi Station in Kawanishi, where one can transfer to Hankyu Takarazuka Line to Osaka.

Nose Electric Railway is a principal subsidiary of Hankyu Corporation. A rush-hour special express train, the Nissei Limited Express, operates from Nissei-chuo Station to Umeda Station, the terminal of Hankyu in Osaka, in the morning and back again in the evening for commuters.
Guyang, Guzhang
Guyang Town (Chinese: 古阳镇; pinyin: Gǔyáng Zhèn) is a town and the county seat of Guzhang County in Hunan, China. The town is located in the middle region of the county. It was reformed to merge Hepeng Township (Chinese: 河蓬乡), Shuangxi Township (Chinese: 双溪乡), Luoyixi Township (Chinese: 罗依溪镇) and the former Guyang Town on November 30, 2015. It has an area of 336.67 km2 (129.99 sq mi) with a population of 56,500 (as of 2015 end).  Its seat of local government is at Xiaoguzhangping (Chinese: 小古丈坪) of Hongxin Community (Chinese: 红星社区).

Seat of government
A seat of government is a "building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority". When referring to a city, the seat of government is generally the capital of the state or administrative entity in question, although there are exceptions. Particular terms for the seat of certain territorial subdivisions are administrative centre, county seat (common in the United States), county town (United Kingdom and Ireland), or barrio-pueblo (Puerto Rico), among others; buildings that may function as seats of government include official residences, supreme court buildings, city or town halls, administrative or executive buildings, shire or county halls, legislative buildings, and barangay halls.
DWBM-FM
DWBM (105.1 FM), on-air as 105.1 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Mareco Broadcasting Network and operated under an airtime lease agreement by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. It serves as a Luzon flagship station of the Brigada News FM Network. The station's studio is located at the 26th Floor, One San Miguel Avenue Bldg., San Miguel Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Center, Pasig; its transmitter is located at San Carlos Heights, Binangonan.

Shaw Boulevard
Shaw Boulevard (formerly known as Jose Rizal Boulevard and Pasig Boulevard) is a 4-8 lane highway connecting the cities of Mandaluyong and Pasig in the Philippines. The boulevard is named after William James Shaw, founder of the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong. The road is one of the major thoroughfares of the Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong and Pasig, housing many shopping malls like the Starmall shopping center and Shangri-La Plaza at the EDSA-Shaw intersection and The Marketplace, which is visible from the Kalentong-Shaw intersection and Sevilla Bridge.

It is served by the Shaw Boulevard station of the MRT-3 along its intersection with EDSA. Bus and jeepney routes serve the entirety of the road, going to and from Quiapo, Santa Mesa, José Rizal University, EDSA, Ortigas Center, the Pasig Public Market, and various towns in Rizal.
Bombom, São Tomé and Príncipe
Bombom is a town in the north-eastern part of São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe. Its population is 498 (2012 census). It lies 2 km west of Pantufo and 3 km south of the city centre of the capital São Tomé.

São Tomé
São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for "Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, it is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities.
ASEAN Beach Soccer Championship
The ASEAN Beach Soccer Championship (formely AFF Beach Soccer Championship) is an international beach soccer competition contested by Southeast Asian men's national teams who are members of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).

Beach soccer
Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or sand soccer, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand between two teams of five players each.

Association football has long been played informally on beaches. Beach soccer was introduced in 1992 as an effort to codify rules for the game by the founders of Beach Soccer Worldwide, a company set up to develop the sport and responsible for the majority of its tournaments. FIFA has held the Beach Soccer World Cup biennially since 2005.

The first international matches were played in 1993 for men and 2009 for women. As of July 2023, there are 193 men's and 64 women's clubs and 101 men's and 23 women's national teams sorted in the Beach Soccer Worldwide Rankings.
Debby Haak
Debby Haak (born 25 February 1977) is a former tennis player from the Netherlands. She turned professional at the age of 18.

She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2000 Heineken Trophy after she received a wild card into the doubles draw. In her career, she won 17 ITF doubles titles and achieved a highest doubles ranking of 154 in the world.

2000 Heineken Trophy – Women's doubles
Silvia Farina Elia and Rita Grande were the defending champions, but Farina Elia did not compete this year. Grande teamed up with Sabine Appelmans and lost in semifinals to Catherine Barclay and Karina Habšudová.

Erika deLone and Nicole Pratt won the title, after Catherine Barclay and Karina Habšudová were forced to retire during the final. The score was 7–6(8–6), 4–3.
John Millman
John H. Millman (born 14 June 1989) is an Australian former professional tennis player. He won one title on the ATP Tour, the 2020 Astana Open, reaching a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 33 in October 2018. His other career highlights included reaching the quarterfinals of the 2018 US Open (beating then-world No. 2 Roger Federer en route), reaching the finals of the 2019 Japan Open and 2018 Hungarian Open and winning twelve ATP Challenger Tour titles.

Millman represented Australia on numerous occasions, including in the Davis Cup and ATP Cup and at two Summer Olympics.

Millman retired from tennis after the 2024 Australian Open.

ATP Cup
The ATP Cup was an international outdoor hard court men's tennis team tournament, which ran from 2020 to 2022. The tournament was played across one or three Australian cities over ten days in the lead up to the Australian Open, and featured teams from 12, 16 or 24 countries. The event was the first ATP team competition since the ATP World Team Cup, which was held in Düsseldorf from 1978 to 2012.
Auritz
Auritz stands for:

Burguete – Auritz ("Burguete" in Castilian, "Auritz" in Basque), a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain

Auritz (Bautzen) ("Auritz" in German, "Wuricy" in Upper Sorbian), a village located in southeastern Bautzen, Germany

Burguete – Auritz
Burguete (Castilian) or Auritz (Basque) is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.

Ernest Hemingway lodged in Burguete in 1924 and 1925 for a fishing trip to the Irati river, and describes it in his novel The Sun Also Rises.
Thoresen
Thoresen  is a  Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Børt-Erik Thoresen,  Norwegian television host and folk singer

Carl E. Thoresen (1933–2020), American psychologist

Gunnar Thoresen (footballer) (1920–2017), Norwegian footballer

Gunnar Thoresen (bobsledder)  (1921–1972), Norwegian bobsledder

Hallvar Thoresen, Norwegian footballer

Jan Thoresen, Norwegian curler

Magdalene Thoresen, Scandinavian writer

Patrick Thoresen, Norwegian professional ice hockey left winger

Petter Thoresen (orienteering), Norwegian orienteering competitor

Petter Thoresen (ice hockey),  Norwegian ice hockey manager and former player

Simeon Thoresen, Norwegian cage fighter

Synnøve Thoresen, Norwegian biathlete

Tom Thoresen, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Tom Thoresen
Tom Thoresen (born 16 May 1947 in Glemmen) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1977, and was re-elected on five occasions.

On the local level Thoresen was a member of Fredrikstad city council from 1971 to 1987.

Outside politics he graduated as candidatus philologiae in 1974 and worked one year as a high school teacher. From 1983 to 1987 he was deputy leader of the now-defunct government agency Likestillingsrådet. In 2002 he was appointed director of Statens Medieforvaltning, which was merged with other institutions in 2005 to become the Norwegian Media Authority. Thoresen continued as director.
Steven Smith (teamaker)
Steven Dean Smith (May 29, 1949 – March 23, 2015) was an American tea entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Tazo tea company, co-founder of Stash Tea Company, and co-founder of Steven Smith Teamaker in Portland, Oregon. Smith was recognized internationally as one of the tea industry's leading entrepreneurs, and often spoke to various industry groups about branding, product development, and origin projects. He was an active investor in, and consultant to, multiple business ventures in North America and abroad. A philanthropist, Smith supported numerous community projects locally and internationally, ranging from work with Mercy Corps to local schools and arts organizations, creating special tea blends for the Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Oregon Ballet Theatre
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Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT) is a ballet company in Portland, Oregon, United States. The company performs an annual five-program season at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and conducts regional and national tours. It was featured in the October/November 2007 issue of Pointe magazine, with principal dancer Kathi Martuza on the cover.
Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Princess Marie Luise Alexandra Karoline of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 November 1845 – 26 November 1912), later Countess of Flanders, was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern. She married Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, second son of King Leopold I of Belgium, and she was the mother of King Albert I.

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (German: Fürstentum Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) was a principality in southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to the junior Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. The Swabian Hohenzollerns were elevated to princes in 1623. The small sovereign state with the capital city of Sigmaringen was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1850 following the abdication of its sovereign in the wake of the revolutions of 1848, then became part of the newly created Province of Hohenzollern.
Willie Morganfield
Reverend Willie Morganfield (July 11, 1927 – October 18, 2003), was an American gospel musician and minister. He started his music career, in 1959, with the release of a single, "What Is This?", which was made into a popular arrangement by the gospel music singer and pastor Walter Hawkins in 1980. His albums were primarily released by Jewel Records with a few by Paul Records. The only release that charted, Golden Hits, was released by Jewel in 1984, and this placed on the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart.

Walter Hawkins
Walter Lee Hawkins (May 18, 1949 – July 11, 2010) was an American gospel singer, songwriter, composer, and pastor. An influential figure in urban contemporary gospel music, his career spanned more than four decades. Hawkins won one Grammy from a sum of eight nominations.
Free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. It encompasses a large range of poetic form, and its distinction to other forms (such as prose) is often ambiguous.  In general, the core characteristic of free verse is its flexibility.

F. S. Flint
Frank Stuart Flint (19 December 1885 – 28 February 1960) was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country".
Can't Touch This (game show)
Can't Touch This is a BBC television game show that aired on BBC One from 26 March to 8 October 2016, hosted by Zoe Ball and Ashley Banjo. Filmed in Belfast and produced by Stellify Media, the show rated poorly and was not recommissioned.

Stellify Media
Stellify Media is a Northern Irish television production company. Stellify was formed by Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television through its International Production division.

Stellify are best known for successfully rebooting the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Jeremy Clarkson for ITV, and Blind Date with Paul O'Grady for Channel 5.