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Given a question and a context passage, generate the answer having the word or phrase from the context passage. Here, the answer should be a shortest continous span from the passage.
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Context: 3sat began broadcasting on 1 December 1984. 
 Question: What year did 3sat start?
answer:
1 december 1984


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Context: Mary Ball was born in 1812, the second daughter of Bob Stawell Ball and his wife Mary nee Green. 
 Question: Who was the male parent of Mary Ball?
answer:
bob stawell ball


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Context: The 2010 United States Census reported that Marin County had a population of 252,409. The racial makeup of Marin County was 201,963 (80.0%) White (U.S. Census), 6,987 (2.8%) African American (U.S. Census), 1,523 (0.6%) Native American (U.S. Census), 13,761 (5.5%) Asian (U.S. Census), 509 (0.2%) Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), 16,973 (6.7%) from Race (United States Census), and 10,693 (4.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census) or Latino (U.S. Census) of any race were 39,069 persons (15.5%). 
 Question: Which group from the census is smaller: White or African American?
answer:

african american