hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Yakov Yakovlevich Elsis
Yakov Yakovlevich Elsis (Latvian: Jēkabs Elsis; 25 December [O.S. 13 December] 1890 – 30 January [O.S. 17 January] 1917) was a captain in the Imperial Russian Army and a Latvian Rifleman. He fought in World War I and was awarded the St. George Cross posthumously in 1917.

Cross of St. George (Russia)
The Cross of Saint George (Russian: Георгиевский крест, romanized: Georgiyevskiy krest) is a state decoration of the Russian Federation.  It was initially established by Imperial Russia where it was officially known as the Decoration of the Military Order of Saint George between 1807 and 1913. The Cross of Saint George was reinstated into the Russian awards system in 1992.
Bucharest–Arad Operation
The Bucharest–Arad Offensive was a frontline military operation of Soviet and Romanian Troops against the Wehrmacht and Hungarian Troops, conducted from August 30 to October 3, 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, as a result of which almost all of Romania was liberated from German–Hungarian Troops.

Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Drobeta-Turnu Severin (Romanian pronunciation: [droˈbeta ˈturnu seveˈrin] ⓘ), colloquially Severin, is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, on the northern bank of the Danube, close to the Iron Gates. It is one of six Romanian county seats lying on the river Danube. "Drobeta" is the name of the ancient Dacian and Roman towns at the site, and the modern town of Turnu Severin received the additional name of Drobeta during Nicolae Ceaușescu's national-communist dictatorship as part of his myth-making efforts.
Mattias Livf
Mattias Livf, born February 24, 1974, is a Norwegian ice hockey player who plays for the Storhamar Dragons and was their current captain. Livf was born in Sweden but was granted a Norwegian citizenship in 2007 which also made him eligible for Norway's national team. He made his international debut at the IIHF World Championship in Moscow, Russia in 2007.

Norway men's national ice hockey team
The Norway men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team from Norway that participates at the IIHF World Championships. The team is governed by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Association and is coached by Petter Thoresen.
Achuhucanac
Achuhucanac is the rain god in Guanche religion in Tenerife, identified with the Supreme God (Achamán). Its name comes from: ašu_hu_kanak Guanche language that means "that is in the rain" or "that who is in the rain".

Guanche language
Guanche is an extinct language or dialect continuum that was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 16th or 17th century. It died out after the conquest of the Canary Islands as the Guanche ethnic group was assimilated into the dominant Spanish culture. The Guanche language is known today through sentences and individual words that were recorded by early geographers, as well as through several place-names and some Guanche words that were retained in the Canary Islanders' Spanish.
Shahpur Araian
Shahpur Araian is a village in Batala in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State, India. It is located 23 kilometres (14 mi) from sub district headquarter, 47 kilometres (29 mi) from district headquarter and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from Sri Hargobindpur. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Sri Hargobindpur
Sri Hargobindpur is a town and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Situated on the banks of the Beas River
Sixth Guru of Sikhs Shri Guru Hargobind Sahib ji established this city on the land bought by his father and fifth guru, Shri Guru Arjan Dev Sahib ji, the city is also the erstwhile capital of the Ramgarhia Misl.

The Gurudwara Dhamdama Sahib stands at the site of the battle of Hargobindpur fought between Sikh forces led by Guru Hargobind and Mughal forces in 1630.
Thomas Chapman (Australian politician)
Thomas Daniel Chapman (31 October 1815 – 17 February 1884) was the Premier of Tasmania from 2 August 1861 until 20 January 1863. He served as a member of the Tasmanian Parliament for 26 years from August 1856 until his death in 1884.

Electoral district of Hobart Town
The electoral district of Hobart Town was a multi-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It was based in Tasmania's capital city, Hobart, and its suburbs.

The seat was created as a five-member seat ahead of the Assembly's first election held in 1856, and was abolished at the 1871 election, when it was divided up into the seats of Central, East, North, South and West Hobart.

The seat was later recombined in 1897 as the seat of Hobart.
Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres was an event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 51 participating athletes from 40 nations, with four qualifying heats. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was held from 3 to 8 August 1992. The event was won by 0.50 seconds by Fermín Cacho of Spain, the nation's first title in the men's 1500 metres. Morocco won its first medal in the event with Rachid El Basir's silver. Qatar won its first Olympic medal in any event with Mohamed Suleiman's bronze.

Joseph Chesire
Joseph Chesire (born November 12, 1957) is a former Kenyan middle-distance runner who represented his country in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. He came fourth in Los Angeles and Barcelona. Cheshire also won the 1500 m at the London Grand Prix in 1992. His greatest indoor achievement was the bronze medal at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games.

He became the oldest entrant into the 1500 metres at the World Championships in Athletics, at 35 years, 281 days at the 1993 edition.
Aminu Safana
Aminu Shuaibu Safana Listenⓘ (April 1961 – October 17, 2007) was a Nigerian politician who represented the Batsari/Safana/Danmusa constituency of Katsina State in the House of Representatives.

A doctor by training, Safana was a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University and the Universities of Leeds and London. He had been a confidant of President Umaru Yar'Adua, and had served as secretary of Katsina State's government while Yar'Adua was governor.

He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2003, and was reelected in 2007. He was a People's Democratic Party member and chairman of the house's Committee on Health. On October 17, 2007, Safana collapsed on the assembly's floor; he was pronounced dead the same day at the Abuja National Hospital, the cause of death being identified as a heart attack.

Batsari
Batsari is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is located in the town of Batsari.

It has an area of 1,107 km2 and a population of 208,978 at the 2006 census.

The postal code of the area is 820.
2023–24 Dundee F.C. season
The 2023–24 season was Dundee's first season back in the top flight of Scottish football since 2021–22, after winning the previous season's Scottish Championship at the first time of asking. Dundee also competed in the League Cup, exiting at the group stage, and in the Scottish Cup, exiting in the fourth round.

Dundee would enjoy a successful league season, confirming a finish in the top six in April 2024 for the first time since the 2014–15 season.

2021–22 Dundee F.C. season
The 2021–22 season was Dundee's first season back in the top flight of Scottish football since 2018–19, after winning the previous season's Premiership play-offs. Dundee also competed in both the League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

Dundee were automatically relegated to the Scottish Championship on 11 May 2022.
Fritillaria tubiformis
Fritillaria tubiformis is a bulbous perennial plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to Alpine regions of southeastern France and northern Italy.

Subspecies

Fritillaria tubiformis var. burnatii (Planch.) Rouy

Fritillaria tubiformis subsp. moggridgei (Boiss. & Reut. ex Planch.) Rix

Fritillaria tubiformis subsp. tubiformis

Bulb
In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called ornamental bulbous plants or just bulbs.
Spanish peseta
The peseta (/pəˈseɪtə/, Spanish: [peˈseta]) was the currency of Spain between 1868 and 2002. Along with the French franc, it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra (which had no national currency with legal tender).

De facto currency
A de facto currency is a unit of money that is not legal tender in a country but is treated as such by most of the populace. The United States dollar and the euro are the most common de facto currencies.
Pythian Building
The Gillette-Tyrrell Building is a building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was begun in 1929 by two Tulsa oilmen, J. M. Gillette  and H. C. Tyrrell. They initially planned to construct a three-story office building at 432 S. Boulder Avenue, topped by a ten-story hotel, but these plans were canceled during the Great Depression and they stopped construction at the third floor. In 1931, they sold it to the Knights of Pythias, who decided to complete it as an office building and renamed it the Pythian Building.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 21, 1982 (NRIS #82003703). The application lists its architecture as a mix of the Art Deco styles: Modern and Zig Zag. It is also listed as a contributing property on the NRHP Application for the Oil Capital Historic District (NRIS #10001013).

Knights of Pythias
The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D.C., on February 19,   1864. The Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress.
Boris Marian
Boris Tihonovici Marian (born 27 September 1934; Russian: Борис Тихонович Мариан) is a Moldovan poet, screenwriter, translator, and journalist, as well as a former dissident in the Soviet Union. He primarily writes in Russian and is a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union, the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, and the Union of Writers of Russia.

National Writers' Union of Ukraine
The National Writers' Union of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національна спілка письменників України, romanized: Natsionalna spilka pysmennykiv Ukrainy) (NSPU)) (НСПУ) is a voluntary social-creative association of professional writers, poets, prose writers, playwrights, critics, and translators.
Veronica Burton (tennis)
Veronica Burton (born 27 January 1952) is a British former professional tennis player.

Specialising on clay, Veronica remains the last British player to beat Martina Navratilova in a Grand Slam tournament in the 1973 U.S. Open - Women's Singles.

1973 US Open – Women's singles
Margaret Court defeated Evonne Goolagong in the final, 7–6, 5–7, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1973 US Open. It was her fifth US Open singles title and record-extending 24th and last women's singles major title, an all-time record that still stands.

Billie Jean King was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the third round to Julie Heldman.

This marked the first time a major offered equal prize money to both men and women. It would take several decades for the other three majors would follow suit, the Australian Open in 2001 and Wimbledon Championships and French Open in 2007.
2021 Copa América Group A
Group A of the 2021 Copa América, also referred to as the South Zone, took place from 14 to 28 June 2021 in Brazil. The group consisted of former co-hosts Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay. It would also have included guests Australia before their withdrawal on 23 February 2021.

Originally, Group A was scheduled to be played from 12 to 30 June 2020. However, on 17 March 2020 the tournament was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in South America.

On 30 May 2021, Argentina was removed as co-host due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 pandemic in South America
The COVID-19 pandemic  was confirmed to have reached South America on 26 February 2020 when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo. By 3 April, all countries and territories in South America had recorded at least one case.

On 13 May 2020, it was reported that Latin America and the Caribbean had reported over 400,000 cases of COVID-19 infection with, 23,091 deaths. On 22 May 2020, citing the rapid increase of infections in Brazil, the World Health Organization declared South America the epicentre of the pandemic.

As of 12 January 2023, South America had recorded 67,331,547 confirmed cases and 1,344,031 deaths from COVID-19. Due to a shortage of testing and medical facilities, it is believed that the outbreak is far larger than the official numbers show.
Mario Geudens
Mario Geudens (born 13 May 1975) is a Belgian former professional snooker player. He played on the main tour over six seasons between 1993 and 2000, being ranked inside the top 100 for the 1998/1999 season.

As an amateur, Geudens has won the Belgian Amateur Championship twice, in 1999 and 2009, and was runner-up in that event in 1992.

Belgians
Belgians (Dutch: Belgen [ˈbɛlɣə(n)] ⓘ; French: Belges [bɛlʒ] ⓘ; German: Belgier [ˈbɛlɡi̯ɐ] ⓘ) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe. As Belgium is a multinational state, this connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural rather than ethnic. The majority of Belgians, however, belong to two distinct linguistic groups or communities (Dutch: gemeenschap; French: communauté) native to the country, i.e. its historical regions: Flemings in Flanders, who speak Dutch, West Flemish and Limburgish; and Walloons in Wallonia, who speak French or Walloon. There is also a substantial Belgian diaspora, which has settled primarily in the United States, Canada, France, and the Netherlands.
Luciano Cartaxo
Luciano Cartaxo Pires de Sá (born 7 June 1964) is a Brazilian politician and pharmacist who served as the 44th Mayor of João Pessoa, the capitol of the northeastern state of Paraíba, since from 2013 to 2021. A member of the left wing Workers' Party (PT), he now serves as a state deputy since 2021, a position he served in previously from 2011 to 2013.

João Pessoa, Paraíba
João Pessoa (/ˈʒwaʊn pəˈsoʊə/ ZHWOWN pə-SOH-ə; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w peˈsoɐ]) is a port city in northeastern Brazil. It is the largest city and capital of the state of Paraíba, with an estimated population of 888,679 (as of 2024). It is located on the right bank of the Paraíba do Norte river.

The new "Estação Ciência, Cultura e Artes" (Science, Culture and Art Station), located at the most eastern point of the Americas (Ponta do Seixas), is an educational and cultural institution as well as a national landmark. The complex, inaugurated in 2008, was created by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and is one of his final projects.

The capital of Paraíba received the title of Creative City by UNESCO in 2017, appointing João Pessoa as "Brazilian city of handicrafts".
The Bangkok Boy
The Bangkok Boy (Thai: บางกอกบอย) is a 2025 Thai drama and Boys' Love television series that aired from April 26 to July 12, 2025. The show follows the story of Sun, a former inmate who forms a secret gang in Bangkok while seeking revenge and truth. The series was broadcast weekly on Saturdays and is available for streaming on WeTV and GagaOOLala.

GagaOOLala
GagaOOLala is a Taiwan-based worldwide subscription video on demand service, specializing in uncensored LGBTQ-related films, LGBTQ TV films & LGBTQ TV drama series. It has partnered with Japanese-based Line TV, initially in Thailand, and then across Asia, to provide the service with GagaOOLala-made TV series. GagaOOLala is owned by Portico Media, whose also carried pay TV channels for Taiwan cable TV provider along with Chunghwa Telecom's MOD platform.

The service launched in March 2017, initially only on Taiwan, before rolling out to the 10 ASEAN nations in South East Asia in 2017, Hong Kong and Macau in 2018 and the rest of Asia in 2019. The service became available globally, except in mainland China and North Korea, in May 2020.

It is the first  LGBTQ-focused OTT platform in Asia. Its catalog includes feature films, shorts, documentaries, series and its own original content.
Władysław Żeleński (lawyer)
Władysław Żeleński (11 July 1903 – 25 June 2006) was a Polish lawyer, historian and publicist. He served in the Polish military during World War II, and afterwards lived in the France until his death in Paris in 2006.

Born in Parchacz, Władysław was a son of Izabella and Stanisław Gabriel Żeleński. He was a nephew of Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, and a grandson of Władysław Żeleński, the composer.

Żeleński posited that the massacre of Lviv intellectuals was done because they had collaborated with the Soviets.

Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
Tadeusz Kamil Marcjan Żeleński (21 December 1874 – 4 July 1941), better known by his pen name Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński or simply as Boy, was a Polish stage writer, poet, critic and, above all, the translator of over 100 French literary classics into Polish. He was a pediatrician by profession.

A notable personality in the Young Poland movement of c. 1890 to 1918, Boy was the enfant terrible of the  Polish literary scene in the first half of the 20th century. He was murdered in July 1941 by  invading German forces during what became known as the massacre of the Lwów professors.
Bozzole
Bozzole is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of Turin and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of Alessandria. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 311 and an area of 9.4 square kilometres (3.6 sq mi).

Bozzole borders the following municipalities: Pomaro Monferrato, Sartirana Lomellina, Torre Beretti e Castellaro, Valenza, and Valmacca.

Province of Alessandria
The province of Alessandria (Italian: provincia di Alessandria; Piedmontese: provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: provinsa ëd Lissändria) is an province of the region of Piedmont in Italy. The capital is the city of Alessandria. It has a population of 407,029 across its 187 municipalities as of 2025.

With an area of 3,558.83 square kilometres (1,374.07 mi2) it is the third largest province of Piedmont after the province of Cuneo and the Metropolitan City of Turin. To the north it borders on the province of Vercelli and to the west on the Metropolitan City of Turin and the province of Asti. It shares its southern border with Liguria (province of Savona and the Metropolitan City of Genoa). Its south-east corner touches the Province of Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, while to the east it borders on the Lombard province of Pavia.
Archivea
Archivea is a monotypic genus of orchids containing only the species Archivea kewensis. Known only from an 1823 watercolour illustration, it was described in 1996 by botanists Eric A. Christenson and Rudolf Jenny. It is believed to be native to Brazil, however, it has yet to be documented beyond the original 1823 illustration.

Column (botany)
The column, or technically the gynostemium, is a reproductive structure that can be found in several plant families: Aristolochiaceae, Orchidaceae, and Stylidiaceae.

It is derived from the fusion of both male and female parts (stamens and pistil) into a single organ. The top part of the column is formed by the anther, which is covered by an anther cap. This means that the style and stigma of the pistil, with the filaments  and one or more anthers, are all united.
Intercity Shopping Centre
Intercity Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It was one of the first shopping malls in Thunder Bay and is the largest of its kind in Northwestern Ontario, with 456,430 square feet (42,404 m2) of retail space.

Originally, Intercity was built as a strip mall in 1982. However, in the 1990s, the entire Intercity site was redesigned. The strip mall was demolished and a more modern mall was constructed. Since then, the mall has seen various anchor stores and changes over the years. Today, it is Thunder Bay’s dominant shopping mall.

Urban Planet
Urban Planet, also known as Urban Behavior, is a unisex apparel retailer in Canada with a focus on clothes for young adults and teenagers. A fast fashion chain, it is a subsidiary of YM Inc which owns as well Bluenotes and West 49.

The store is mostly popular with people trying to keep up with today's fashion trends. Urban Planet targets teenage to young adult consumers with focus on affordability. It has over 100 locations across Canada.
USS AFDB-2
USS ABSD-2, later redesignated as AFDB-2, was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-2 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for World War II. Her official commissioning ceremony took place on 14 August 1943 with CDR Joseph J. Rochefort in command. With all ten sections joined, she was 927 feet (283 m) long, 28 feet (8.5 m) tall (keel to welldeck), and with an inside clear width of 133 feet 7 inches (40.72 m). ABSD-2 had a traveling 15-ton capacity crane with an 85-foot (26 m) radius and two or more support barges. The two side walls were folded down under tow to reduce wind resistance and lower the center of gravity. ABSD-2 had six capstans for pulling, each rated at 24,000 lbf (110,000 N) at 30 ft/min (0.15 m/s), four of the capstans were reversible. There were also 12 ballast compartments in each section.

Espiritu Santo
Espiritu Santo (UK: /ɛˌspɪrɪtuː ˈsæntoʊ/, US: /- ˈsɑːntuː, - ˈsɑːntoʊ/; French: [ɛspiʁity sɑ̃to]) is the largest island in the nation and archipelago of Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), with an area of 3,955.5 km2 (1,527.2 sq mi), although Efate, on which the capital city of Port Vila is located, has a larger population. As of 2020, the population of Santo was 37,328. Luganville is the only true town on the island.
Ugi naked-tailed rat
The Ugi naked-tailed rat (Solomys salamonis) is a poorly known and possibly extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is known from a single specimen collected on Ugi Island in the Solomon Islands.

Muridae
The Muridae, or murids, are either the largest or second-largest family of rodents and of mammals, containing approximately 870 species, including many species of mice, rats, and gerbils found naturally throughout Eurasia, Africa, and Australia.

The name Muridae comes from the Latin mus (genitive muris), meaning "mouse", since all true mice belong to the family, with the more typical mice belonging to the genus Mus.
Camurati–Engelmann disease
Camurati–Engelmann disease (CED) is a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is also known as progressive diaphyseal dysplasia. It is a form of dysplasia. Patients typically have heavily thickened bones, especially along the shafts of the long bones (called diaphyseal dysplasia).  The skull bones may be thickened so that the passages through the skull that carry nerves and blood vessels become narrowed, possibly leading to sensory deficits, blindness, or deafness.

This disease often appears in childhood and is considered to be inherited; however, many patients have no previous history of CED within their family. The disease is slowly progressive and, while there is no cure, there is treatment.
It is named for M. Camurati and G. Engelmann.

TGF beta 1
Transforming growth factor beta 1 or TGF-β1 is a polypeptide member of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily of cytokines. It is a secreted protein that performs many cellular functions, including the control of cell growth, cell proliferation, cell differentiation, and apoptosis.  In humans, TGF-β1 is encoded by the TGFB1 gene.