hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Jazz–Nuggets rivalry
The Jazz–Nuggets rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets. The rivalry dates back to the 1976–77 NBA season, when the Nuggets joined the NBA as a result of the ABA–NBA merger. The rivalry is notable in that it features the only two NBA teams based in the Rocky Mountains.

John Stockton
John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is an American former professional basketball player. Regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, he spent his entire NBA career (1984–2003) with the Utah Jazz, and the team made the playoffs in all of his 19 seasons. In 1997 and 1998, together with his longtime teammate Karl Malone, Stockton led the Jazz to the franchise's only two NBA Finals appearances, both of which ended in losses to the Chicago Bulls.

Stockton was a ten-time NBA All-Star and holds the NBA records for most career assists and steals by wide margins. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 for his individual career, and again in 2010 as a member of the 1992 United States Olympic basketball team. In 1996, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history. In October 2021, Stockton was again honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Agorà Ice Stadium
The Agorà Ice Stadium is an ice arena in Milan, Italy. Prior to its opening in 1987, Milan had had only one ice rink. It was the home of the Hockey Milano Rossoblu ice hockey team, and also hosts figure skating, speed skating, and synchronized skating.

The Agorà has a seating capacity of 4,000 and receives 150,000 to 200,000 visitors annually. It can host both national and international events. Its facilities include a standard track of 30 x 60 metres and a restaurant/bar.

The Agorà hosted the 2013 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Synchronized skating
Synchronized skating, often called synchro, is an ice skating sport where between 8 and 20 skaters perform together as a team. They move as a flowing unit at high speed over the ice, while performing elements and footwork.

This complex sport originated in 1956 and was initially called "precision skating" due to its emphasis on the maintenance of intricate and precise formations and the requirement of precise timing from all members of the group. Synchronized skating is now well-established as an organized sport in several European countries with several of them having produced teams who frequently win championships at the international level. As of 2022, there are more than 600 synchro teams in United States alone.
National Indigenous Music Awards 2025
The National Indigenous Music Awards 2025 are the 22nd annual National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs), which is took place on 9 August 2024. Nominations were open from 23 May 2025 and closed on 16 June 2025.

Nominations were announced on 7 July 2025 during NAIDOC Week.

In 2025, the event began a partnership with YouTube and the ceremony was livestreamed globally on the platform.

National Indigenous Music Awards
The National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA), also known as the NT Indigenous Music Awards from 2004 to 2008, are music awards presented to recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians in Australia.
Euxoa catenula
Euxoa catenula is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1879. It is found in North America from southern Saskatchewan west to southern Vancouver Island, south to Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern California.

The wingspan is 34–37 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September.

The larvae feed on Oxytropis, Melilotus alba, Lupinus, Salsola kali and Viola pedatifida.

Salsola kali
Salsola kali is the restored botanical name for a species of flowering plants in the amaranth family that has been treated as Kali turgidum. It is native to Macaronesia, and from the Atlantic coasts of Europe to the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean (although it has been introduced elsewhere). It is an annual plant which grows primarily in the temperate biome, in salty sandy coastal soils. It is commonly known as prickly saltwort or prickly glasswort.

In dry inland places it is replaced by Salsola tragus (syn. Kali tragus or Salsola kali subsp. tragus), which is less tolerant to salty soils, and has spread more widely from Eurasia to other continents. Salsola kali is less widespread as an introduced species in America.
Clemens Hoch
Clemens Hoch (born 5 January 1978 in Andernach) is a German politician serving as minister of science and health of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2021. He has been a member of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2016, having previously served from 2006 to 2013.

Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
The Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate is the state diet of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Article 79, Section 1 of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution provides: "The Landtag is the supreme organ of political decision-making, elected by the people. It represents the people, elects the Minister-President and confirms the cabinet, passes the laws and the budget, controls the executive and enunciates the popular will in the conduct of public affairs, in questions of European policy and according to the agreements between the Landtag and the cabinet."

The Landtag consists of 101 members.

The Landtag convenes in the Deutschhaus building, where also the first democratically elected parliament German history had convened, the Rhenish-German national convention of the Mainz Republic. Parts of its administration are located in the old arsenal.

The German flag used in the Landtag is a historical one used during the Hambacher Fest.
Wang Liyan
Wang Liyan (Chinese: 王立岩; pinyin: Wáng Lìyán; born 1962) is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China.

He is an alternate of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiang (rank)
Jiang (formerly romanized chiang and usually translated general or, for navies, admiral) is a general officer (or flag officer for navies) rank used by China and Taiwan. It is also used as jang in North and South Korea, shō in Japan, and tướng in Vietnam.
Lane County Farmers Market
The Lane County Farmers Market is the largest farmers market in Eugene, Oregon, United States.  It provides fresh, locally grown produce, food products, flowers, and plants where shoppers buy directly from the producers.

Farmers' market
A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell their produce, live animals and plants, and sometimes prepared foods and beverages. Farmers' markets exist in many countries worldwide and reflect the local culture and economy. The size of the market may be just a few stalls or it may be as large as several city blocks. Due to their nature, they tend to be less rigidly regulated than retail produce shops.

They are distinguished from public markets, which are generally housed in permanent structures, open year-round, and offer a variety of non-farmer/non-producer vendors, packaged foods and non-food products.
Costa Rican Cycling Federation
The Costa Rican Cycling Federation or FECOCI (in Spanish: Federación Costarricense de Ciclismo) is the national governing body of cycle racing in Costa Rica. Hernán Solano was elected President of the federation in 2011 and again in 2013.

The FECOCI is a member of the UCI and COPACI.

Sports governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.

Sports governing bodies come in various forms and have a variety of regulatory functions, including disciplinary procedure for rule infractions and deciding on rule
changes in the sport that they govern. Governing bodies have different scopes. They may cover a range of sport at an internationally acceptable level, such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, such as the Rugby Football League. National bodies will largely have to be affiliated with international bodies for the same sport. The first international federations were formed at the end of the 19th century.
Terpene synthase
Terpene synthases include:

β-farnesene synthase

(3R,6E)-nerolidol synthase

(-)-α-pinene synthase

(E)-β-ocimene synthase

These synthases' structures may include:

Terpene synthase N terminal domain

Terpene synthase C terminal domain

Terpene synthase N terminal domain
In molecular biology, this protein domain belongs to the terpene synthase family (TPS). Its role is to synthesize terpenes, which are part of primary metabolism, such as sterols and
carotene, and also part of the secondary metabolism. This entry will focus on the N terminal domain of the TPS protein.
1976 Amateur World Series
The 1976 Amateur World Series was the 24th edition of the Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and took place, for the fourth time, in Colombia.

There were 11 participating countries, including first-time participant South Korea. The tournament was won by Cuba, its 14th AWS victory and – excluding the FEMBA championships of 1973 and 1974 which Cuba did not participate in – its sixth consecutive title.

Amateur
An amateur (from French 'one who loves') is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, self-taught, user-generated, DIY, and hobbyist.
The Crimson Circle (1929 film)
The Crimson Circle (German: Der rote Kreis) is a 1929 British-German sound part-talkie crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome.  In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The sound was recorded via the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film is an adaptation of the 1922 Edgar Wallace novel The Crimson Circle in which Scotland Yard detectives battle a gang of blackmailers. A previous UK version was filmed in 1922.

The film, a co-production between British International Pictures and Efzet Film. In March 1929, this film and The Clue of the New Pin, filmed in the British Phototone sound-on-disc process, were previewed in London. As with most early sound films, a silent version was edited down from the sound version for release to theatres that had not yet converted to sound.

Associated British Picture Corporation
Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI. ABPC also owned approximately 500 cinemas in Britain by 1943, and in the 1950s and 60s owned a station on the ITV television network. The studio was partly owned by Warner Bros. from about 1940 until 1969; the American company also owned a stake in ABPC's distribution arm, Warner-Pathé, from 1958. It formed one half of a vertically integrated film industry duopoly in Britain with the Rank Organisation.
Petra Vandrey
Petra Vandrey (born 1965) is a German lawyer and politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2019 .

Petra Vandrey studied law at the Free University of Berlin, receiving her doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on "Reconstructing Environmental Law? An Investigation of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Codifying Environmental Law, Considering Relevant Experiences Abroad." She was admitted to the bar in 1997 and is a specialist in family law.

Vandrey is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. She held a seat in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district council until 31 July 2019, temporarily as parliamentary group leader. In 2021, Vandrey won a direct mandate for the Abgeordnetenhaus. She was able to defend her seat in the 2023 Berlin state election.

Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (German: [ʃaʁˌlɔtn̩bʊʁk ˈvɪlmɐsdɔʁf] ⓘ) is the fourth borough of Berlin, formed in an administrative reform with effect from 1 January 2001, by merging the former boroughs of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf.
Rajasekaran Gunnasekaran
Rajasekaran a/l Gunnasekaran is a Malaysian politician and doctor who served as Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sri Tanjung since August 2023. He is a member of People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of Pakatan Harapan (PH).

Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly
The Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Sembilan) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. It consists of 36 members who represent single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are held no more than five years apart, and are usually conducted simultaneously with elections to the federal parliament and other state assemblies (except Sarawak). It is unicameral.

The Assembly convenes at the Wisma Negeri in the state capital, Seremban.
Sampige line
The Sampige line is a planned Bengaluru Suburban rail line running from KSR Bengaluru to Devanahalli and the Kempegowda International Airport. The 45 km (28 mi) long broad-gauge line was approved in 2019 and in 2024 was in the tendering process. The line which is also referred as 'corridor-1' is planned to be constructed in two phases C1A and C1B respectively.

The C1A section runs from KSR Bengaluru to Yelahanka Junction railway station. While the C1B section starts from Yelahanka Junction and ends in Devanhalli town in the north. C1B also includes a 5.5 km (3.4 mi) branch line towards the Airport. The line is named after the regional flower Sampige (Magnolia champaca)  in Kannada.

Magnolia champaca
Magnolia champaca, known in English as champak (/ˈtʃʌmpək/), is a large evergreen tree in the family Magnoliaceae. It was previously classified as Michelia champaca. It is known for its fragrant flowers, and its timber used in woodworking.
Dominik Uher
Dominik Uher (born 31 December 1992) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing with Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Uher was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 5th round (144th overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. He played two games for the Penguins in 2014–15, and spent several other years with the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.

2011 NHL entry draft
The 2011 NHL entry draft was the 49th entry draft for the National Hockey League. It was held on June 24–25, 2011, at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was the first time the draft was held in the state of Minnesota since the Minnesota North Stars hosted the 1989 NHL entry draft. The top three selections were Ryan Nugent-Hopkins by the Edmonton Oilers, Gabriel Landeskog by the Colorado Avalanche, and Jonathan Huberdeau by the Florida Panthers.

The draft was also noteworthy as the venue at which the recently relocated Atlanta Thrashers franchise announced that they would be known as the Winnipeg Jets, making the announcement as they drafted Mark Scheifele with their first pick.

As of 2025 there are 42 active NHL players from this draft.
Martin Kimani
Mbūgua Martin Kìmani (born 1971) is a Kenyan government official and diplomat. He previously served as Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since December 2020. He previously served as the Director of the National Counter Terrorism Centre and as a Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism in Kenya.

Diplomatic rank
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations. A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented, and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
Stoney Creek (electoral district)
Stoney Creek was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2003 and in the legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2007. It was located in the Hamilton area of Southern Ontario. This riding was created in 1996 from parts of Hamilton—Wentworth and Lincoln ridings.

It consisted of the City of Stoney Creek, the Township of Glanbrook, and the southeast part of the City of Hamilton, and the Town of Grimsby.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed between Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Hamilton Mountain and Niagara West—Glanbrook ridings.

Glanbrook, Hamilton, Ontario
Glanbrook is the south-western district of the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was first created as an independent township in 1974 through the amalgamation of Mount Hope, Binbrook, Glanford, and other nearby communities. In 2001, Glanbrook became a dissolved municipality after it was amalgamated with Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Dundas, Ancaster and Flamborough to become the present city of Hamilton.

The population of Glanbrook as of the 2006 census was 15,293, a 25% increase from the 2001 census figure of 12,145, and making it the fastest growing part of Hamilton. It contains the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho is an oil-on-canvas painting by the British figurative artist Francis Bacon, from 1967. It is held in the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie, in Berlin.

Described by art critic John Russell as one of Bacon's finest works, the painting depicts Isabel Rawsthorne, the painter, designer and occasional model for artists such as André Derain, Alberto Giacometti and Picasso.

Isabel Nicholas
Isabel Nicholas (10 July 1912 – 27 January 1992), also known at various times as Isabel Delmer, Isabel Lambert, and Isabel Rawsthorne was a British painter, scenery and costume designer, and occasional artists' model. During the Second World War she worked in black propaganda as part of the special operations executive of the British Intelligence. She was part of an artistic bohemian society that included Jacob Epstein, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.
Karabas (horse)
Karabas (born 1965) was a French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Ridden by Lester Piggott, he emulated his sire Worden by winning the Washington D.C. International in 1969. In that race he beat American champion Hawaii into second place and earned $100,000 for his owner.

Lester Piggott
Lester Keith Piggott (5 November 1935 – 29 May 2022) was an English professional jockey and horse trainer. With 4,493 career flat racing wins in Britain, including a record nine Epsom Derby victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest flat racing jockeys of all time and the originator of a much-imitated style. Popularly called "The Long Fellow", he was known for his competitive personality, restricting his weight and, on occasion, not sparing the whip, such as in the 1972 Derby. Piggott was convicted of tax fraud in 1987 and sentenced to three years in prison, but served just over a year.
Charles Kitwanga
Charles Muhangwa Kitwanga (born 27 September 1960) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Misungwi constituency since 2010. He served as a minister of internal and home affairs in the Magufuli cabinet for five months beginning in December 2015. Kitwanga was found drunk during a parliamentary session on 20 May 2016 and was immediately suspended for drinking during working hours.

National Assembly (Tanzania)
The National Assembly of Tanzania (Swahili: Bunge la Tanzania) and the President of the United Republic of Tanzania make up the Parliament of Tanzania. The current Speaker of the National Assembly is Mussa Zungu, who presides over a unicameral assembly of 403 members.
Talking Head (film)
Talking Head (トーキング・ヘッド, Tōkingu Heddo) is a 1992 Japanese live-action film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii. It is a surreal meta-film mystery involving the production of an anime called Talking Head.

The film has many references to the anime industry with characters being named after animators such as  Yasuo Ōtsuka and Ichirō Itano, designer Yutaka Izubuchi, writer Kazunori Itō, and composer Kenji Kawai.  The director of the film within the film is named Rei Maruwa, which was a pseudonym for Oshii on several of his projects.

The film features a short anime segment by famous character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto (of Macross fame).

Kenji Kawai
Kenji Kawai (川井 憲次, Kawai Kenji; born April 23, 1957) is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films, video games and ice shows. Among his credits are Toei's: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever, Tsui Hark's Seven Swords and Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon; Wilson Yip's Ip Man; Mamoru Oshii's films: The Red Spectacles, StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Police Patlabor and Assault Girls. He also worked on the OVA and TV anime adaptations of: Vampire Princess Miyu, The Sky Crawlers and Avalon; the anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ and Maison Ikkoku; the live-action adaptation of Gantz and Hideo Nakata's films: Ring, Ring 2, Chaos, Dark Water and Kaidan.

His nephew, Hidehiro Kawai, is a bassist in Fox Capture Plan, an instrumental band.
Ron Cooper (boxer)
Ronald Dennis Cooper (5 February 1928 – 15 March 2023) was a British boxer. He fought as Ron Cooper and competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Cooper won the 1948 Amateur Boxing Association British lightweight title, when boxing out of the Royal Navy BC.

Cooper died on 15 March 2023, at the age of 95.

England Boxing National Amateur Championships Lightweight Champions
The England Boxing National Amateur Championships Lightweight Championship formerly known as the ABA Championships is the primary English amateur boxing championship. It had previously been contested by all the nations of the United Kingdom.
Dimke
Dimke is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Derek Dimke (born 1990), American football placekicker

Harold Dimke (born 1949), German rower

Mary K. Dimke (born 1977/78), American judge

Mary Dimke
Mary Katherine Dimke (born 1977) is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington since 2021. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2016 to 2021.
Wah Lai (constituency)
Wah Lai (Chinese: 華麗) is one of the 31 constituencies of the Kwai Tsing District, returning one member to the Kwai Tsing District Council every four years. It was first created in 2007.

Loosely based on Lai Yiu Estate, Wah Yuen Chuen and Wonderland Villas in Lai King, the constituency has an estimated population of 16,580 as of 2019.

Kwai Tsing District Council
The Kwai Tsing District Council (Chinese: 葵青區議會; noted as KWT) is the district council for the Kwai Tsing District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. It currently consists of 32 members of which 6 are directly elected from the three constituencies of the district, 12 district committee members, 13 appointed members, and one ex-officio member who is the Tsing Yi Rural Committee chairman. The latest election was held on 10 December 2023.