hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Awadh Saleh Sherman
Swaleh Nguru Sherman (Arabic: عوض  صالح  شرمان (4 October 1932 – 21 May 2024) was a Kenyan business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He was of Yemeni descent and started out from humble beginnings as a fish monger selling Kingfish "Nguru".

He was of significant net worth and owns some of the largest ranches in Kenya. Despite, being one of the biggest land owners in Kenya, he was also recognized by the Government of Kenya and the United Nations for his philanthropic efforts in protecting and helping Somali refugees, and for his conservational efforts around Kenya.
http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/116850

Investor
An investor is a person or entity that allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital the investor usually purchases some species of property. Types of investments include equity, debt, securities, real estate, infrastructure, currency, commodity, token, derivatives such as put and call options, futures, forwards, etc. This definition makes no distinction between the investors in the primary and secondary markets.  That is, someone who provides a business with capital and someone who buys a stock are both investors.  An investor who owns stock is a shareholder.
2025 Open Aix Provence – Doubles
Luke Johnson and Skander Mansouri were the defending champions but only Johnson chose to defend his title, partnering Sander Arends. They lost in the semifinals to Robert Cash and JJ Tracy.

Cash and Tracy won the title after defeating Théo Arribagé and Hugo Nys 7–5, 7–6(7–5) in the final.

Sander Arends
Sander Arends (born 9 August 1991) is a Dutch professional tennis player who specializes in doubles.
He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 23, achieved on 21 July 2025. Arends has won four doubles ATP Tour titles, one with David Pel and three with Luke Johnson. He has also won 31 doubles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour and 11 titles on the lower level ITF Men's World Tennis Tour.
Bat-Kohen
A bat-kohen or bat kohen (Hebrew: בת כהן) is the daughter of a kohen (Jewish priest), who holds a special status in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinical texts. She is entitled to a number of rights and is encouraged to abide by specified requirements, for example, entitlement to consume some of the priestly gifts, and an increased value for her ketubah.

Talmid Chakham
Talmid Chakham (Hebrew: תלמיד חכם) is an honorific title that is given to a man who is well-versed in Jewish law, i.e., a Torah scholar. Originally Hebrew: תלמיד חכמים Talmid Chakhamim, lit., "student of sages", pl. תלמידי חכמים talmidei chakhamim, "students of sages"; inaccurate reconstruction of the singular, which is invariably shortened to ת"ח in printings, led to modern Hebrew: תלמיד חכם talmid chakham "sage student". The feminine equivalent is Talmidat Chakhamim, "student of sages" (pl. Talmidot Chakhamim), or, by extension of the same error, Talmidah Chakhamah, "sage student" (pl. Talmidot Chakhamot).
George Granfelt
Georg (George) Fredrik Granfelt (19 June 1865, in Turku – 5 August 1917, in Naantali) was a Finnish lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Diet of Finland from 1891 to 1906 and of the Parliament of Finland from 1908 to 1909, from 1910 to 1911, and from 1912 to 1913.

Naantali
Naantali (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnɑːntɑli]; Swedish: Nådendal) is a town in Southwest Finland, and, as a resort town during the summer, an important centre of tourism in the country. The municipality has a population of 20,190
(31 March 2025), and is located 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) west of Turku.

The town has a land area of 312.58 square kilometres (120.69 sq mi). Most of this area is located on the islands, but the majority of the population lives on the mainland. Most of the islands are covered with forest and farmland, while the mainland consists chiefly of residential areas.
2000 Latvian Higher League
The 2000 season in the Latvian Higher League, named Virslīga, was the tenth domestic competition since the Baltic nation gained independence from the Soviet Union on 6 September 1991. Eight teams competed in this edition, with Skonto FC claiming the title.

Independence
Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of a dependent territory or colony. The commemoration of the independence day of a country or nation celebrates when a country is free from all forms of colonialism; free to build a country or nation without any interference from other nations.
Wellington Council
Wellington Council was a local government area in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The former area is located adjacent to the Macquarie River and the Mitchell Highway.

A 2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the Wellington Council merge with the City of Dubbo to form a new council with an area of 7,536 square kilometres (2,910 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 51,000. Following an independent review, on 12 May 2016, the Minister for Local Government announced the dissolution of the Wellington Shire Council and the Dubbo City Council, together with the establishment of the Western Plains Regional Council with immediate effect.

The former Wellington Council area included Wellington, Maryvale, Geurie, North Yeoval, Dripstone, Mumbil, Stuart Town and Euchareena.

Orana (New South Wales)
Orana is a vast region in north-central New South Wales, Australia. As of June 2015 it had an estimated population of 113,824 people. It has an area of 198,561 square kilometres (76,665 sq mi) and is the largest region in New South Wales, comprising approximately 25% of that  state. The major localities include Dubbo and Cobar. This region corresponds approximately with the Australian Bureau of Statistics' North Western Statistical Division.
Sammy Ofer Stadium
Sammy Ofer Stadium (Hebrew: אצטדיון סמי עופר), also known as Haifa Municipal Stadium (האצטדיון העירוני חיפה), is a 30,950 seats multi-purpose stadium in Haifa, Israel. Construction began in late 2009 and was completed in 2014. The stadium was developed and built by the Haifa Economic Corporation, managed by Adv. Gal Peleg.

Currently, the stadium is used mostly for football matches, hosting the home games of Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa. The stadium replaced Kiryat Eliezer Stadium, which was closed in 2014 and demolished in 2015. The stadium is named after the late Israeli billionaire Sammy Ofer (1922–2011), who donated $20,000,000 to build the stadium. Ofer's contribution was 19% of the total cost of the stadium.

Statue of World Peace, a 15-meter high stainless steel sculpture created and donated by Chinese artist We Yuan Yan (Yao Yuan), adorns the stadium plaza. The design features a woman and a dove poised as if about to take flight.

Doves as symbols
Doves, typically domestic pigeons white in plumage, are used in many settings as symbols of peace, freedom, or love. Doves appear in the symbolism of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and paganism, and pacifist groups.
Castlemaine
Castlemaine may mean:

Castlemaine, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia
Castlemaine Football Club, an Australian rules football club
Castlemaine railway station

Castlemaine, County Kerry, a town in Ireland
Castle Maine, a former castle in Castlemaine, County Kerry

Castlemaine Brewery, Western Australia, ceased trading in 1927

Castlemaine Perkins, a Queensland-based brewery, known for the XXXX range of beers

Baron Castlemaine, in the peerage of Ireland

Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, English courtier

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, wife of Roger Palmer

HMAS Castlemaine, a ship in the Royal Australian Navy

Castlemaine railway station
Castlemaine railway station is a regional railway station on the Deniliquin line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the north-western town of Castlemaine, in Victoria, Australia. Castlemaine station is a ground level staffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 21 October 1862.

The station is the terminus of the Victorian Goldfields Railway heritage services on the Maldon line. It used to be the terminus of the cross-country Castlemaine-Maryborough railway, but the section from Castlemaine to Moolort was closed in 2004, and the remaining section to Maryborough was closed in 2011.

Disused stations at Elphinstone and Taradale are located between Castlemaine and Malmsbury, while disused stations Harcourt and Ravenswood are located between Castlemaine and Kangaroo Flat. Chewton station, between Castlemaine and Malmsbury, has been demolished.
Evgeniya Augustinas
Evgeniya Sergeyevna Augustinas (Russian: Евгения Сергеевна Аугустинас, née Romanyuta; born 22 January 1988 in Tula) is a Russian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's Team Cogeas–Mettler–Look.

2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
The 2007–2008 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics was a multi race competition over a season of track cycling. The season began on 30 November 2007 and ended on 17 February 2008. The World Cup is organised by the UCI. The 2007–2008 series carried vital ranking points towards the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The following tables contain only Olympic events, although many non-Olympic events are still held.
H. C. Balakrishna
H. C. Balakrishna (born 1965) is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is a five time member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Magadi Assembly constituency in Ramanagara district. He represents Indian National Congress Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.

He was appointed chairman for Karnataka State Road Development Corporation on 26 January 2024.

Karnataka Legislative Assembly
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly (formerly the Mysore Legislative Assembly) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Karnataka is one of the six states in India where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses: the Vidhan Sabha (lower house) and the Vidhan Parishad (upper house).

There are 224 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and are directly elected  through adult franchise. Karnataka is thus divided into 224 constituencies to elect members to the Assembly, each constituency electing one member. The assembly is elected using the simple plurality or "first past the post" electoral system. The elections are conducted by the Election Commission of India.
Anđelo Kvesić
Anđelo Kvesić (born 8 June 1995) is a Croatian karateka. He is a two-time gold medalist in the men's +84 kg event at the European Karate Championships. He is a two-time bronze medalist in his event at the World Karate Championships and a two-time medalist, including gold, at the European Games.

Karate World Championships
The Karate World Championships, also known as the WKF World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karate organized by the World Karate Federation (WKF).  The competition is held in a different city every two years. Championships in the 2000s included Madrid in 2002, Monterrey in 2004, Tampere in 2006, Tokyo in 2008, and Belgrade in 2010. The competition was initially riddled with controversy regarding karate styles and the ruleset.

In 1980, women were first allowed to compete in the championships.
Donna M. Walsh
Donna M. Walsh (born 1943) is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing the 36th District from 2007 to 2015. She served on the House Committee on Corporations, and the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Rhode Island House of Representatives
41°49′52″N 71°25′02″W﻿ / ﻿41.8310574°N 71.4171443°W﻿ / 41.8310574; -71.4171443

The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, the upper house being the Rhode Island Senate. It is composed of 75 members, elected to two-year terms from 75 districts of equal population. The Rhode Island General Assembly does not have term limits. The House meets at the Rhode Island State Capitol in Providence.
Willem Gabron
Willem Gabron or Guiliam Gabron (1619, Antwerp – 2 August 1678, Antwerp), was a Flemish Baroque still life painter, who worked in a wide range of genres including fruit pieces, vanitas still lifes, flower still lifes, game pieces and breakfast pieces. Gabron was also a gifted animalier and often included living animals in his still life scenes.
He initially worked in a monochrome style but developed a more colourful palette after a long stay in Italy.

Vanitas
Vanitas is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires. The paintings involved still life imagery of transitory items. The genre began in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is a type of allegorical art representing a higher ideal. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period (c.1585–1730). Spanish painters working at the end of the Spanish Golden Age also created vanitas paintings.
Henry Ernest Stapleton
Henry Ernest Stapleton (1878–1962) was an English chemist, historian of chemistry, Arabist, linguist, and numismatist specializing in the history of alchemy and chemistry in the medieval Islamic world.

Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world
Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in general) by Muslim scholars in the medieval Islamic world. The word alchemy was derived from the Arabic word الكيمياء (al-kīmyāʾ), which itself may derive either from the Egyptian word kemi ('black') or from the Greek word khumeia ('fusion').

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Islamic conquest of Roman Egypt, the focus of alchemical development moved to the Caliphate and the Islamic civilization.
Nakkim
Nakkim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Are Nakkim (born 1964), Norwegian long-distance runner

Kjellaug Nakkim (1940–2022), Norwegian politician

Kyrre Nakkim (born 1966), Norwegian journalist

Markus Nakkim (born 1996), Norwegian footballer

Are Nakkim
Are Nakkim (born 13 February 1964) is a retired Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres. He represented Moss IL during his active career.

Are Nakkim attended Boston University, where he ran cross country and track.

He won a silver medal in 10,000 m at the 1990 European Championships. He also competed in 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1986 European Championships as well as the World Cross Country Championships in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 without any success. In 10,000 m he became Norwegian champion only once, in 1984. He did win the 3000 m chase in 1985–1986 and 5000 m in 1986 and 1988–1990.

His personal best time in 10,000 m was 27:32.52 minutes, achieved in July 1990 on Bislett stadion. This is the current Norwegian record. In 5000 m he held the Norwegian record with 13:19.82 minutes until 2000, when it was broken by Marius Bakken. In 3000 m s'chase Nakkim is third with 8:24.13 minutes, only behind Jim Svenøy and Espen Borge.
Eastern Carpathian Foothills
Eastern Carpathian Foothills as a geographical term designates transitional region in the western parts of Ukraine and northeastern parts of Romania, between Eastern Carpathian Mountains to the southwest and number of plain regions to the east and north (bordering Moldavian Plateau to the southeast and east, Podillia Upland to the northeast and east, Roztochia Upland to the north, Sian Lowland to the northwest). Its average elevation is around 300–500 m (980–1,640 ft) above sea level. The region stretches across Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi Oblasts and Suceava County.

Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (Ukrainian: Львівська область, romanized: Lvivska oblast, IPA: [ˈlʲwiu̯sʲkɐ ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ]), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (Ukrainian: Львівщина, IPA: [ˈlʲwiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]), is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is 2,478,133 (2022 estimate).
John Carminow
John Carminow or Carminowe (c. 1516 – 1592) was an English politician.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Carminow, of Respryn, a gentleman of the bedchamber to Henry VIII, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Cheeseman, Cofferer of the Household to King Henry VII, and sister to Robert Cheeseman.

His younger brother, Nicholas Carminowe, was the MP for Launceston (Dunheved) and Bodmin.

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cornwall (5 October 1553 – 5 December 1553) and Truro (1563–1567). He was High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1558–59.

In spite of being described as ‘an old fornicator, a common drunkard, corrupt, ignorant’ he was a Justice of the Peace from 1569 until his death.

He married Margaret, daughter of Christopher Tredinnick, and they had 3 sons, including George and Oliver, MP for St. Mawes, and subsequently for Truro and Tregony and a daughter, Mary.

Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency)
Bodmin was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall from 1295 until 1983. Initially, it was a parliamentary borough, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of England, House of Commons of Great Britain and later the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 1868 general election, when its representation was reduced to one member.

The old borough was abolished with effect from the 1885 general election, but the name was transferred to a county constituency, which elected a single member until the constituency was abolished with effect from the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new South East Cornwall, though some areas, including the town of Bodmin itself, were transferred to the existing North Cornwall.
Serge Kats
Serge Melfinn Kats (born 9 September 1971 in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics  in Savannah. There he took the 13th place in the Laser. Kats second and final Olympic appearance was during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. In this competition Kats took the 4th place, again in the Laser.

Nowadays Kats is Manager Topsport at the Koninklijk Nederlands Watersport Verbond. He won the 2000 J/22 World Championship as helm.

Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Laser
The Open Single Person Dinghy at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held from 20 to 29 September 2000 in Sydney in Australia. Points were awarded for placement in each race. Eleven races were scheduled and sailed. Each sailor had two discards.
Montréal, Aude
Montréal (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ʁe.al] ⓘ; Languedocien: Montreal) is a commune just west of Carcassonne in the Aude department, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Occitanie region in southern France.

Occitania (administrative region)
Occitania (French: Occitanie [ɔksitani] ⓘ; Occitan: Occitània [utsiˈtanjɔ]; Catalan: Occitània [uksiˈtaniə]) is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, located in the south of the country, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The Council of State approved Occitania as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016, coming into effect on 30 September 2016.

The modern administrative region is named after the larger cultural and historical region of Occitania, which corresponds with the southern third of France. The region of Occitania as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of Toulouse in the 12th and 13th centuries. The banner of arms of the Counts of Toulouse, known colloquially as the Occitan cross, is used by the modern region and is also a popular cultural symbol. In 2022, Occitania had a population of 6,080,731.
Tour W
The Tour W, formerly the Tour Winterthur, is an office skyscraper in La Défense in the commune of Puteaux west of Paris, France.

The tower was designed by architects Delb, Chesnau, Verola and Lalande. At the time of its completion in 1973, the Tour Winterthur was the fourth highest building in La Défense. It was named after the Swiss insurance company Winterthur Group which owned the building until the end of the 1990s. It was later renamed to Tour W in 2013.

In 1996, renovation works started in the building. In 2019, French software development company Axway installed an illuminated sign atop the façade.

The Tour W has 31 floors and 9 underground floors with an overall floor area of 34,500 square metres (371,000 sq ft).

The building is located near La Défense station served by the Transilien, RER, Paris Metro and tram.

Axway Software
Axway Software is a French-American publicly held information technology company that provides software tools for enterprise software,  enterprise application integration, business activity monitoring, business analytics, mobile application development and web API management.

Since it split from parent company Sopra Steria in June 2011, Axway has been listed on Euronext Paris (AXW).
Maria Frolova
Maria Frolova (Russian: Мария Фролова) (born 1 November 1986) is a Russian volleyball player for VC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk and the Russian national team.

She participated at the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship, and the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix, and 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup.

2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship
The 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 30th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. The tournament was co-hosted by Azerbaijan and Georgia, and was held between 22 September and 1 October 2017.

Serbia defeated Netherlands in the final to capture their second european title. Turkey defeated Azerbaijan for the bronze medal. Tijana Bošković from Serbia was elected the MVP.
Radiotelevizija Herceg-Bosne
Radiotelevizija Herceg-Bosne (English: Radiotelevision of Herzeg-Bosnia or RTVHB) is a Croat public-service broadcasting organization based in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 
RTV Herceg-Bosne is a television station from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Croatian. The television was established back in 1992 with a constant radio program, and the television program began broadcasting only on July 1, 2019, after a series of acquisitions of several televisions. The headquarters of RTVHB are located in Mostar. Regional TV studios are located in the following cities: Kiseljak, Livno and Orašje.

As of July 2019 RTVHB consists of two organizational units:

Radio Herceg-Bosne – public radio service

Televizija Herceg-Bosne – public television channel

Orašje
Orašje (Serbian Cyrillic: Орашје) is a city and the capital of Posavina Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the banks of river Sava near the border with Croatia. As of 2013, it has a population of 19,861 inhabitants.