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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "11 per 100,000.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227023724/https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml#part_154969" } ], "question": "What was the suicide rate in USA in 2004?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "in 2018 it was 14.2 per 100,000.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227023724/https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml#part_154969" } ], "question": "What was the suicide rate in USA in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "in 2018 it was 14.2 per 100,000.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201227023724/https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml#part_154969" } ], "question": "What was the suicide rate in USA in 2018?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A total of 10.7 suicides per 100,000", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide" } ], "question": "In 2001, what was the suicide rate per 100,000 people in the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A total of 14 suicides per 100,000", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide" } ], "question": "In 2017, what was the suicide rate per 100,000 people in the United States?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "08/05/2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was the claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 2016, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older took their own lives -- a figure that reflects the unfortunate fact that suicide rates in the country have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20180612cdcsuicide.html" }, { "answer": "The total age-adjusted suicide rate in the United States increased 35.2% from 10.4 per 100,000 in 2000 to 14.2 per 100,000 in 2018", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide" } ], "question": "How much has the suicide death rate increased in the United States?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Officials say the construction starting in February is only part of the picture. Funding from fiscal year 2018, they say, also covers the cost of building 70 more miles of barriers – about 57 miles of which is replacement fencing.\n\nAnd if the Trump administration’s proposal for $5.7 billion more for a border wall is approved, officials say they’ll be able to build 234 miles of new and replacement barriers – about 100 miles of which will cover parts of the border that didn’t have a barrier before.\n\nBut given that a partial government shutdown over the wall is already in its fifth week, whether that work will happen – and exactly what will happen next – is anybody’s guess.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/19/politics/us-mexico-border-wall-numbers/index.html" } ], "question": "How many miles of border wall did Trump build?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A few prototypes were built in 2017, and over 100 miles of existing barriers have been, or are slated to be, repaired or replaced.\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection said about 205 miles of new and replacement barriers have been funded since January 2017, and as of May 23, work had been completed on 42 miles of replacement fencing in California, Texas and Arizona.\n\nA few prototypes with different designs were built in San Diego in 2017 and tested, but they have been demolished to make way for fencing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said the prototypes could “inform future border wall design standards in some capacity.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/trump-mexico-wall/" } ], "question": "Is there a construction of four hundred miles of wall by Trump on the Mexico border ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wall-exclusive/exclusive-trump-border-wall-to-cost-21-6-billion-take-3-5-years-to-build-internal-report-idUSKBN15O2ZN" } ], "question": "How much did Trump's border wall cost?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Are four hundred miles of wall getting built along the US-Mexico border in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "08/05/2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "When was this claim made?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://talkpoverty.org/2019/01/03/already-border-wall-environmental-disaster/" } ], "question": "How many miles does the U.S.-Mexico border span as of 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Today’s walls and fences already cover 700 miles", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://talkpoverty.org/2019/01/03/already-border-wall-environmental-disaster/" } ], "question": "How many miles of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border are fenced as of 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "How many miles has the Trump administration secured funding for the U.S.-Mexico border?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "How many miles does the Trump administration want to add to the U.S.-Mexico border?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "How much of the U.S.-Mexico border has the Trump administration built so far?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "If you consider the barrier projects built recently to be \"border walls,\" here are some of the locations: \n\nIn April, the Border Patrol began construction of a \"border wall\" near El Paso at Santa Teresa, N.M. During a press conference, Aaron Hull, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso sector, mostly referred to the project as the wall, sometimes calling it \"fence\" but quickly correcting himself. Hull said the metal barrier was the same design as others from the 2006 Secure Fence Act. The new barrier replaced existing metal posts which were designed only to block vehicles. \nIn September, the Border Patrol announced construction of \"a new 4-mile section of bollard wall\" in the historic Chihuahuita neighborhood in El Paso. The new bollards replaced existing chain-link fencing.\nIn October, border officials marked the completion of 2 miles of barriers near Calexico, Calif. Crews had replaced older metal fencing with new, 30-foot steel bollards, a project identified as a priority and funded under President Barack Obama.\nIn November, Customs and Border Protection officials announced a contract for about 6 miles of \"wall system\" in the Rio Grande Valley. The project is supposed to include a concrete levee wall \"to the height of the existing levee\" with 18-foot bollards on top. That barrier is not being built yet; it's set to be started in February.\nNone of those barriers look like the wall prototypes built near San Diego, which Trump visited and praised earlier this year.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2018/11/05/what-trumps-border-wall-progress/1898283002/" } ], "question": "Where is Trump's border wall being built?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Texas leads nation in Confederate symbols removed since 2015", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190908223209/https://www.statesman.com/news/20180605/report-texas-leads-nation-in-confederate-symbols-removed-since-2015" } ], "question": "What state is leading the confederate monuments removal charge" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "170 deaths from 2013 to the end of 2018, but that includes all victims killed on school grounds, including school employees and people unrelated to the school. It also includes shootings that occurred on school property when school is not in session, including at night.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://maps.everytownresearch.org/gunfire-in-school/" }, { "answer": "We counted 64 through the end of 2018 counting the number of students who died after being shot on school grounds, during school hours or after being shot on college campuses — or at student housing — where they were enrolled for classes.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "factcheck.org" } ], "question": "How many children have been killed by gun violence in US schools since the massacre at Sandy Hook in December 2012?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "$41 billion in funding it has been allocated by federal authorities.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/donald-trump-lies-puerto-rico-disaster-funding" } ], "question": "How much money has been allocated to the Puerto Rico Hurricane Disaster Relief?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Puerto Rico has received $11 billion", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/donald-trump-lies-puerto-rico-disaster-funding" } ], "question": "How much money has the Puerto Rico Hurricane Disaster Relief received from the allocated 41 billion?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Non-Hispanic\nWhites accounted for 60.5 percent\nof the total population and 42.8\npercent of the people in poverty in\n2017", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-263.pdf" } ], "question": "In the latest official poverty report (2017)how many non-Hispanic whites are in Poverty?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No the story is from a satire news website Babylonbee.com with disclaimer: The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210814050850/https://babylonbee.com/about" } ], "question": "Did Ilhan Omar say: 'If Israel Is So Innocent, Then Why Do They Insist On Being Jews?'" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Cause of death by hanging.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226104538/https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-04-05-forty-years-after-solomon-mahlangu-was-hanged-his-family-continues-to-remember-his-legacy/" } ], "question": "What was Solomon Mahlangu's cause of death?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On June 11 1977 he returned to South Africa as a cadre, heavily armed, through Swaziland.\n\nTwo days later Mahlangu and his companions, Mondy Johannes Motloung and George \"Lucky\" Mahlangu, were confronted by police in Goch Street, Johannesburg. \"Lucky\" Mahlangu managed to escape. In the ensuing gun battle two civilians were killed and two wounded. Solomon Mahlangu and Motloung were arrested.\n\nMotloung was found to be unfit to stand trial after his brutal police interrogation. Mahlangu was sentenced to death by hanging under the Terrorism Act.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210226104538/https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-04-05-forty-years-after-solomon-mahlangu-was-hanged-his-family-continues-to-remember-his-legacy/" } ], "question": "Why was Solomon Mahlangu killed?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Judge CDJ Theron", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org//sites/default/files/Solomon-Mahlangu-Order.jpg" } ], "question": "Who sentenced Solomon Mahlangu to death?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Ramon Leon died last week and, in the days that followed, was wrongly reported, including by the Mail & Guardian, as having played a role in the hanging of the more famous struggle hero, Solomon Mahlangu — first as the trial judge and then in an appellate capacity. In truth he had nothing to do with Mahlangu’s case — he never sat, even as an acting judge, on the Appellate Division, said two senior judges.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210909133403/https://mg.co.za/article/2018-04-26-00-the-death-penalty-and-judges-who-had-to-apply-it/" } ], "question": "Was the Democratic Alliance (DA) involved in Solomon Mahlangu's death?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance. As of 2005, they are still the official opposition party in the South African Government.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AAer:TonyLeon.jpg" } ], "question": "Who is the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA)?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Ramon Leon is Tony Leon's father.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2009-09-01-leons-fathers--burglary-shock/" } ], "question": "Are Ramon Leon and Tony Leon related?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "September 21, 2012\nA House ethics panel has determined there is no evidence that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) violated congressional rules when she called Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in 2008 on behalf of minority-owned banks, despite her husband’s financial stake in one troubled institution.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/california-rep-waters-cleared-of-ethics-charges/2012/09/21/75d346c2-03f3-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_blog.html?utm_term=.a8d1e9742281" } ], "question": "When was US Rep Maxine Walters cleared of any charges relating to the claim that she steered $12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds to her husband’s private bank account?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On Tuesday, the House Ethics Committee issued its final report in the case. Waters will not be charged with any violations of House ethics rules.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210306042707/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/report-details-waters-ethics-case-debacle-081665" } ], "question": "Was Maxine Waters indicted for steering TARP money to her husband's private bank account?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No the original illustration was part of the Buzzfeed comics", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://maritsapatrinos.com/BUZZFEED-COMICS-1/A-Ton-Of-Various-BuzzFeed-Comics" } ], "question": "Is this the original cartoon?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No, it could not be found. So it shows it was photoshopped.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://maritsapatrinos.com/BUZZFEED-COMICS-1/A-Ton-Of-Various-BuzzFeed-Comics" } ], "question": "Was this specific illustration on this website or the original artists social media page?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nothing can be found", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://comics.washingtonpost.com/featurepages/11_comics_bc.html" }, { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Do searches of the washington post show the cartoon was published in there?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It was published on buzzfeed", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://maritsapatrinos.com/BUZZFEED-COMICS-1/A-Ton-Of-Various-BuzzFeed-Comics" } ], "question": "Was the original cartoon publiheein the Washington post?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Was the comic about Rahul Gandhi?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "If the kin refuse to pay the medical bill, the hospital can later register a court case against the relatives or friends who brought the patient to the hospital,\" said criminal lawyer Shyam Keshwani.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ndtv.com/mumbai-news/hospital-keeps-dead-body-because-family-cant-pay-bill-567201" } ], "question": "Who pays when someone dies in an Indian hospital?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Their manifesto States that full healthcare is the right of every citizen, the Congress manifesto has promised that the total government expenditure on healthcare will be doubled to 3 per cent of GDP by 2023-24. The party has also promised to enact the Right to Healthcare Act that will guarantee the right to healthcare services, including free diagnostics, out-patient care, medicines and hospitalisation through a network of public hospitals and enlisted private hospitals, to every citizen.\nNo mention is made of dying patients.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.thestatesman.com/india/congress-releases-poll-manifesto-promises-jobs-benefits-farmers-niti-aayog-1502742568.html" } ], "question": "Have congress in India stated what their poll promises for healthcare are in their manifesto?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "No these quotes do not appear in his archive and have been refuted by The Nelson Mandela Foundation.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210414110431/http://db.nelsonmandela.org/materials/pub_view.asp?pg=search&opt=basic" } ], "question": "Is Nelson mandela quoted as saying: 'When a woman rejects a man of vision, and accept [sic] a man with television, she will end up watching the man of vision on her own husband's television,” it reads. “Don't judge a man by his pocket but judge him by his vision. Because where a man is going in life is more important than his present condition.”?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "After taking over the Interior Department last year, Secretary Ryan Zinke decided to revive an arcane, military flag-flying ritual at the department. The Washington Post reported", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/374573-ex-interior-chief-ribs-zinke-over-secretarial-flag/" } ], "question": "Where was the report made" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A special “secretarial flag,” which is emblazoned with the agency’s bison seal and flanked by seven white stars, is flown whenever Zinke enters the building. The flag then comes down whenever Zinke leaves", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://thehill.com/homenews/374573-ex-interior-chief-ribs-zinke-over-secretarial-flag/" } ], "question": "When were special flags flown in the ministry of interior" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigeria is home to over 10 million out-of-school children, around half of whom are girls - and it is hardly coincidental that the country with the world’s highest number of out-of-school children is home to the highest number of people living in extreme poverty.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/90-million-nigerians-live-in-extreme-poverty-here-are-3-ways-to-bring-them-out/" } ], "question": "How many children are out-of-school in Nigeria?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Nigeria has the highest rate of children not attending school.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.UNER?locations=ZG&name_desc=true" } ], "question": "Which Sub-Saharan country has the most children not attending school, according to recent data?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://mason.gmu.edu/~drine/" } ], "question": "What did Benjamin Franklin say about democracy allegedly ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://allauthor.com/quotes/92322/" } ], "question": "Is there a proven record where BEN FRANKLIN said ''DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH''" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Benjamin Franklin was America’s scientist, inventor, politician, philanthropist and business man. He is best known as the only Founding Father who signed all three documents that freed America from Britain. Franklin is credited with drafting the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. He also negotiated the Treaty of Paris which ended the Independence War against Britain.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/benjamin-franklin/" } ], "question": "Who was Benjamin Franklin?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Founders Online. CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER WRITINGS OF SEVEN MAJOR SHAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES:\nGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. Over 185,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://founders.archives.gov/" } ], "question": "What's the name of the archive listing all of the sayings by the founding fathers?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No results were found.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://founders.archives.gov/index.xqy?q=DEMOCRACY+IS+TWO+WOLVES+AND+A+LAMB+VOTING+ON+WHAT+TO+HAVE+FOR+LUNCH&s=1111211111&sa=&r=1&sr=" } ], "question": "What's the result of researching the quote \"DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH\" through the Founders online archive?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Is there any mention of the quote \"DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH\" in Benjamin Franklin's writings?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The evidence is only available in metadata. No external evidence", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Is the boy in the video still alive?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "It is known that the boy is still alive.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Has a boy in India died due to birthday bumps?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Data from the UNESCO institute of statistics", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.UNER" } ], "question": "What is the most recent statistic used for this study" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "8, 615, 770", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.UNER" } ], "question": "According to the data, what is the number of out of school children in Nigeria" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Data from the UNESCO institute of statistics", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.UNER" } ], "question": "What is the most recent statistic used for this study?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "8,615,770", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.UNER" } ], "question": "According to the data, what is the number of out of school children in Nigeria?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There are reports that Trump tried to fire Mueller but William Barr went with the narrative that there were other plausible reasons why Trump would've wanted that", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210715040739/https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/debunking-muellers-conflicts/" } ], "question": "What did William Barr say about the Mueller investigation" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Mueller: Barr's summary of report did not capture 'context, nature, and substance' of Russia probe", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/30/mueller-objected-ag-barrs-summary-clearing-trump-obstruction/3634376002/" } ], "question": "What did the national papers report on the Mueller report?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "yes , he was aware of concerns raised.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Barr-letter.pdf" } ], "question": "Was William Barr aware of concerns raised about his summary of the Mueller report?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "William Barr may have misled congress. But it is debateable whether he did this deliberately or not.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Barr-letter.pdf" }, { "answer": "William Barr stated that he discussed the letter with Mueller. Barr stated that Mueller was \"not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report.\" Barr insisted that he was not being purposefully misleading but it appears that he did not offer Congress all the information that he possessed at the time. It is not possible to state whether this was deliberately misleading.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4795359/user-clip-leahy-barr-exchange" } ], "question": "Did William Barr mislead congress about his knowledge of the concerns?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Barr received a letter from Mueller dated March 27 2019, stating that Barr “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.” So Barr was aware of concerns raised.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Barr-letter.pdf" } ], "question": "Was William Barr aware of concerns raised by Robert Mueller on March 27 2019, about Barr's summary of the Mueller report?" } ]

[ "Position Statement", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The US is forbidden from a creating a gun registry", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210202200112/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-100/pdf/STATUTE-100-Pg449.pdf" } ], "question": "Is the United states allowed to create a gun registry" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the House bill states that “[n]othing in this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to … authorize the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a national firearms registry.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Is the H.R 8 bill tantamount to creating a gun registry" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": ".@LucyGoesHard Thank you for finding the source of this fake quote that people can’t seem to stop quoting to justify their own bigotry.\n\n— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) March 7, 2015", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/SalmanRushdie/status/574093901549682688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "Has Rushdie commented on the quote claim?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Global Climate Protection Act of 1987, Pub. L. No. 100-204, Title XI, 101 Stat. 1407 (1987)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/31/1/hammerschlag.pdf" } ], "question": "When did a climate change bill first go before the US Houses of Congress?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Senators Joseph Biden (D-DE) and\nClaiborne Pell (D-RI) sponsored the Global Climate Protection Act,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/31/1/hammerschlag.pdf" } ], "question": "Who presented the 1987 The Global Climate Protection Act ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Earlier legislation exists, but addresses climate generally without identifying global warming\nmitigation as a specific goal.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/volumes/31/1/hammerschlag.pdf" } ], "question": "Were there any earlier climate bills introduced before bidens 1987 one ?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Lee Hsien Loong the Prime Minister of Singapore", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200501174505/https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/04/16/20-highest-paid-world-leaders-3/5/" } ], "question": "Who is the highest paid world leader?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "He said that a conclusion couldn't be reached because of some directives in the US constitution and the DOJ's laws", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4800376/user-clip-special-cousel-robert-mueller-obstruction-investigation" } ], "question": "How did Robert Mueller summarize the issues that arose during the course of the investigation into Russia and the presidential election" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "William Barr downplayed the role that factors that Mueller stated affected his decisions and made assumptions as to why he did what he did in not reaching a conclusion", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035813/https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4800377/user-clip-barr-olc-opinion" } ], "question": "Did William Barr agree with Robert Mueller on the inability of his team to reach a conclusion on the matter because of factors within the constitution that could not let him act" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.yourdictionary.com/mischaracterization" } ], "question": "what is mischaracterization" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Travelers with a valid U.S. visa may travel with their current visa in the old passport but must also have a new e-passport for entry. It is not necessary to apply for a new visa", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190814171043/https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKenya/status/1123248149487812610" } ], "question": "Do Kenyans need new generation passports to get US Visas" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "must also have a new e-passport for entry.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190814171043/https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKenya/status/1123248149487812610" } ], "question": "Can old-generation Kenyan passports be solely used to obtain US visas?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The US Embassy, Nairobi, has said it will no longer issue visas to Kenyans who don't have the new e-passports.\n\nIn a post on the embassy's Facebook page, it said, \"All travelers to the United States from Kenya must have a passport valid for at least six months from date of entry. Therefore, U.S. Embassy Nairobi can no longer place U.S. visas in the previously issued non-digital passport expiring August 31, 2019.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-04-30-kenyans-without-e-passport-wont-get-us-visa-embassy/" } ], "question": "Can Kenyans travel to the U.S. without an e-passport?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The latest Labour Account figures for March show that in the December quarter of 2018, there were 6.585% (1,023,400) secondary jobs in Australia.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002959/https://public.tableau.com/views/TwoJobs/Dashboard1?:embed=y&:showVizHome=no?abcnewsembedheight=590" } ], "question": "How many Australians have secondary jobs?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In recent years, mortality [in road accidents] has decreased in Russia From 19 people per 100,000 to 13 people per 100,000.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116075916/http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60413" } ], "question": "Has the mortality rates for road accidents dropped in Russia?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The bureau's Labour Force Survey shows that there were 1,089,300 underemployed people in Australia in March, representing 8.2 per cent of the workforce.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200804195422/https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/PrimaryMainFeatures/6202.0?OpenDocument" } ], "question": "How many Australians are under employed?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The independent Tax Policy Center estimated that 64.8 percent of people received a federal income tax cut in 2018, while 6.3 saw an increase. About 81.7 percent of Americans who made $50,000 to $75,000 — roughly a median income — received a tax cut that averaged $750. That’s consistent with estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan analysts of Congress.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210423091823/https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/individual-income-tax-provisions-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-february-2018/t18-0026" } ], "question": "What percent of people received this tax cut?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "About 81.7 percent of Americans who made $50,000 to $75,000 — roughly a median income — received a tax cut that averaged $750.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210329000558/https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/09/highest-median-household-income-on-record.html" } ], "question": "Did lower incomes also benefit?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "345 overdose deaths after all the data was collected", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201021022233/https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-overdose-deaths-could-top-400-in-2018/" } ], "question": "How many deaths were due to drug overdose in Delaware in 2017" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 2016, four out of 10 overdose deaths were related to fentanyl. That ratio increased to six out of 10 deaths in 2017", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201021022233/https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-overdose-deaths-could-top-400-in-2018/" } ], "question": "What percentage of the total deaths was Fentanyl" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "True, In 2017, were about 61 percent of the overdose deaths in Delaware involved fentanyl and 40 percent involved heroin.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/pressreleases/2018/augustoverdoses091118.html" } ], "question": "In Delware 2017, were 61% of deaths related to overdoses involved fentany ?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "As he gave a speech about U.S.-Israeli relations, but he was talking about \"the prospects for peace,\" not World War II. Or in October 2018, when speaking at Youngstown State University in Ohio.\n\n\"I am an optimist,\" the Vindicator quotes him as saying. \"I am an optimist because I know the history of the journey of this country … We have always had faith in the ability of ordinary people to do extraordinary things.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201124030921/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-vice-president-biden-enduring-partnership-between-united-states-and-israel" } ], "question": "when as Biden called himself an optimist" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A speech in which Biden called himself an 'optimist'.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218886141054369&set=a.1845684751684&type=3&theater" } ], "question": "What does the viral image that makes the claim attribute this quote to?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "He talked about the 2nd world war but makes no mention of 'pearl harbor'", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201210192730/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-vice-president-biden-enduring-partnership-between-united-states-and-israel" } ], "question": "Did Biden say anything about 'pearl Harbor' or the war in that speech?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Nexis, a database of news stories, shows no results whilst Looking for news stories connecting the former vp to Germany and Pearl Harbor,", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-gb/products/research-insights/nexis" } ], "question": "Are there any news references to him making this quote?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Michele Marie Bachmann (/ˈbɑːxmən/; née Amble; born April 6, 1956)[1] is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 2007 until 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election, but lost the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann" } ], "question": "Who is Michelle Bachmann?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Did Michelle Bachmann make a statement suggesting banning Mexican food as a way to stop illegal immigration into the U.S?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Kanhaiya Kumar did not withdraw from the elections, he contested and lost", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Kanhaiya-Kumar-lose-the-2019-election-against-Giriraj-Singh" } ], "question": "Did Kanhaiya Kumar pull out of the elections" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "IndiaScoops", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200703055004/http://indiascoops.com/will-totally-ban-beef-in-states-like-goa-north-east-if-bjp-comes-to-power-at-the-centre-sadhvi-pragya/" } ], "question": "Where did the statement \"Will Totally Ban Beef in States like Goa, North-East, If BJP Comes to Power at the Centre: Sadhvi Pragya\" originate from?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The supposed quote from Sadhvi Pragya in IndiaScoops has no evidence. In the article, IndiaScoops states: \"These comments were not made before the media, or at a public gathering but in front of a group of followers.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200703055004/http://indiascoops.com/will-totally-ban-beef-in-states-like-goa-north-east-if-bjp-comes-to-power-at-the-centre-sadhvi-pragya/" } ], "question": "Is IndiaScoops a credible news site?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "the total saving\nto the taxpayer, in respect of\nIndependent Schools Council (ISC) pupils in the UK,\namounted to £3.0 billion in\n2017 and the\ncorresponding figure for\nall independent schools is\ncalculated to have been £3.5\nbillion.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201111222700/https://www.isc.co.uk/media/5423/isc_report_2018_web_26-11-2018.pdf" } ], "question": "How much did fee-paying schools save the UK tax payers in 2017" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "How much will be lost from the UK economy if students didn't go to fee-paying schools" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Private schools add nearly £12bn yearly to UK", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ft.com/content/1067fb30-b9bd-11e3-a3ef-00144feabdc0" } ], "question": "How much do private schools add to the UK economy" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Tequila contains an average of 97 calories", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/09/health/alcohol-diet-food-drayer/index.html" } ], "question": "Does Tequila have any calories in it?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity—excessive calories!", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-makes-you-fat-too-many-calories-or-the-wrong-carbohydrates/" } ], "question": "Does eating or drinking calories increase bodyweight?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "\"Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210716004743/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/14/context-president-donald-trumps-saturday-statement/" } ], "question": "What exactly did Donald Trump say?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "He went on to say, \"\"Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest, and very legally protest -- because, I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country -- a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country.\"", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210716004743/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/14/context-president-donald-trumps-saturday-statement/" } ], "question": "Did Donald Trump clarify his statement?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "1988 and 2008", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/25/how-joe-biden-ran-for-president-the-first-two-times/3571822002/" } ], "question": "How many times has Joe Biden run for president before 2020?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The BBC via an email response said, \"This fake survey on the Lok Sabha polls has been circulating on WhatsApp and Facebook, with messages claiming it to be from the BBC News. We'd like to make it absolutely clear that it is fake and does not come from the BBC. The BBC does not support pre-election surveys in India.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What did the BBC say regarding the purported CIA survey, predicting the NDA's defeat in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls." }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The URL given in the viral message is correct and takes you to the homepage of BBC. However, there is no such news on the website. We also looked for any such news item of the BBC website with keywords but did not find anything.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Did the BBC publish a CIA survey, predicting the NDA's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "Does CIA carry out surveys on elections ?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. Donetsk has been temporarily occupied by Russia by force.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://t.co/pHm9E7hlIM" } ], "question": "Is the Donetsk part of Russia?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No. Luhansk has been temporarily occupied by Russia by force.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://t.co/pHm9E7hlIM" } ], "question": "Is Luhansk part of Russia?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Russian government has seized Ukrainian land by force. It is therefore unlikely that they have no desire to create problems.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://t.co/pHm9E7hlIM" } ], "question": "Does the Russian government have no desire to create problems for the new Ukrainian government?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes. There is a war in Ukraine. This is depriving them of civil rights.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://t.co/pHm9E7hlIM" } ], "question": "Are people living in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk deprived of any civil rights?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The study was led by a Swiss doctor, Dr Andreas Gutzeit.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Who carried out the study?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "To determine whether it would be hygienic to evaluate dogs and humans in the same MRI scanner.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210629151705/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00330-018-5648-z" } ], "question": "What was the purpose of the study?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "They compared the bacterial load in colony-forming units (CFU) of human-pathogenic microorganisms in specimens taken from 18 men and 30 dogs. In addition, They compared the extent of bacterial contamination of an MRI scanner shared by dogs and humans with two other MRI scanners used exclusively by humans.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210629151705/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00330-018-5648-z" } ], "question": "How was the experiment carried out ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The study shows a significantly higher bacterial load in specimens taken from men’s beards compared with dogs’ fur (p = 0.036). All of the men (18/18) showed high microbial counts, whereas only 23/30 dogs had high microbial counts and 7 dogs moderate microbial counts. Furthermore, human-pathogenic microorganisms were more frequently found in human beards (7/18) than in dog fur (4/30)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210629151705/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00330-018-5648-z" } ], "question": "What were the results of the study?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Study estimates from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, by somewhat defining Cost-Burdened Households into 'Not', 'Moderately' and 'Severly' Burdened by using income percentage.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS_SON_2018_AppendixTables.xlsx" } ], "question": "What official data was available at the time of the claim, that provided national United States household income percentage statistics, in direct relation to the cost of putting a roof over a US families heads?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Figures for 2016 estimated 18,505 million of US homeowners and renters were Severely Cost-Burdened; therefore spending more than 50% of their income on housing alone.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Other", "source_url": "https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS_SON_2018_AppendixTables.xlsx" } ], "question": "What was the data for Severely Cost-Burdened Households defined by Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies at the time of the claim?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "4 Other previous presidents had lower ratings whilst having a low unemployment rate,\n- Truman\n- Johnson\n- Nixon\n- G.W Bush", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210317233847im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J991Jm78gHIaC1Vp44kvT-NHhE1IlkzD8HxRiLkdRLG6JKWnQaWlm4aUZKWRhzXo4WZr5Pg7CNQ8xe-jrWd-XdfW__97vxTsIovRdhrodSVxTZF2gtwvoEH9HHFPEeun7pz-50T" } ], "question": "Was Donald Trump the only President to have low approval ratings whilst his country had a good economy?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Low unemployment is usually regarded as a positive sign for the economy.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.investopedia.com/insights/downside-low-unemployment/" } ], "question": "is a low unemployment rate a sign of a good economy?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Amendments to the Indian Forest Act 1927", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://haryanaforest.gov.in/Portals/0/documents/ifa.pdf" } ], "question": "What law was Rahul Gandhi referencing in his speech?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "An act to provide for conservation, enrichment and sustainable management of forest resources and matters connected therewith to safeguard ecological stability to ensure provision of ecosystem services in perpetuity and to address the concerns related to climate change and international commitments.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://haryanaforest.gov.in/Portals/0/documents/ifa.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the Amendments to the Indian Forest Act 1927?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Any forest officer, may if necessary, to prevent the commission of any offence under this Act or under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, or to apprehend any person engaged in the commission of an offence under the said Acts, or who has committed such offence, use as little force including firearms and do as little injury to person and property, as may be consistent with the prevention of the offence.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://haryanaforest.gov.in/Portals/0/documents/ifa.pdf" } ], "question": "Does this act allow for the shooting of tribals?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "It is a 'draft'- not officially passed yet.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://haryanaforest.gov.in/Portals/0/documents/ifa.pdf" } ], "question": "Is this act an official law or just a provision?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "All aspects of a Muslim's life are governed by Sharia. Sharia law comes from a combination of sources including the Qur'an (the Muslim holy book), the Hadith (sayings and conduct of the prophet Muhammad) and fatwas (the rulings of Islamic scholars).\n\nMany people, including Muslims, misunderstand Sharia. It's often associated with the amputation of limbs, death by stoning, lashes and other medieval punishments. Because of this, it is sometimes thought of as draconian. Some people in the West view Sharia as archaic and unfair social ideas that are imposed upon people who live in Sharia-controlled countires.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/sharia_1.shtml" } ], "question": "What is Islamic Sharia Law?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No - it is not banned but no foreign law can not be used in state courts. \nIn recognition that the United States Constitution and the Constitution of North Carolina\nconstitute the supreme law of this State, the General Assembly hereby declares it to be the\npublic policy of this State to protect its citizens from the application of foreign law that would\nresult in the violation of a fundamental constitutional right of a natural person. The public\npolicies expressed in this section shall apply only to actual or foreseeable violations of a\nfundamental constitutional right resulting from the application of the foreign law.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H522v5.pdf" } ], "question": "Is Sharia law banned in North Carolina?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The resident population counts include all people (citizens and non-citizens) who are living in the United States at the time of the census.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment/about/faqs.html" } ], "question": "Who is counted in the census?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The resident population counts include all people (citizens and non-citizens) who are living in the United States at the time of the census.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/topics/public-sector/congressional-apportionment/about/faqs.html" } ], "question": "Are non-citizens included in Census counts?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Enumeration Clause delegates authority to the United States, and requires the United States, to conduct an enumeration, i.e., an actual head-count, of the populations of the states (not the populations of non-state areas), once every ten years; and requires the United States to allocate seats in the House of Representatives according to the counted population;", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1985554" } ], "question": "What is the enumeration clause?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Ken Kercheval (born July 15, 1935-died April 21, 2019).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://dallas.fandom.com/wiki/Ken_Kercheval" } ], "question": "How old is Ken Kercheval?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "After days of confusion we can confirm the passing of Ken Kercheval on Sunday, April 21, as per our original posting. He was 83.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.facebook.com/dallastvshow/photos/a.899497946748498/2458554040842873/?type=3" } ], "question": "When did Ken Kerchaval die?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Article 8. [Elections to be free and pure; rights of voters therein]\nThat all elections ought to be free and without corruption, and that all voters, having a sufficient, evident, common interest with, and attachment to the community, have a right to elect officers, and be elected into office, agreeably to the regulations made in this constitution.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421203239/https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/constitution-of-the-state-of-vermont/" } ], "question": "who can vote in the state of Vermont" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of 2017, Texas population grew to 28.3 million.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/texas-population-grew-283-million-2017/#:~:text=Texas'%20population%20grew%20to%2028.3,Census%20Bureau%20estimates%20released%20Wednesday." } ], "question": "What is the latest population estimate for Texas?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "About 20.8 million Texans live in incorporated areas (73.63%)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How much of the Texan population lives in incorporated areas?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Area (sq miles) 268,580 sq mi \nArea (sq km) 695,621 sq km", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/area.shtml" } ], "question": "What is the land area of Texas?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of 2017, more than 28.7 billion square meters (or 4.25%) are in incorporated areas.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How much land is in incorporated areas in Texas?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "On 10.04.2019, at the time of and in my statement, the issues relating to court proceedings unfortunately got juxtaposed and mingled with a political slogan being used extensively by answering Respondent's party as well as answering Respondent for the last several months, which is a matter of intense and frenzied public debate during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. That slogan is \"Chowkidar Chor Hai\".", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210723112954im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rahulaffi3.jpg?w=397&ssl=1" } ], "question": "In what context did India's Congress President Rahul Gandhi say he made the statement: Chowkidar Chor Hai?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Rahul Gandhi’s expression of regret to the Supreme Court was in the context of the Congress President having falsely ascribed the term ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ to the top court.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210723112954im_/https://i2.wp.com/www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/rahulaffi4.jpg?w=373&ssl=1" } ], "question": "What did India's Congress President Rahul Gandhi apologise to the Supreme Court for?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Congress President Rahul Gandhi expressed \"regret\" in the Supreme Court on Monday over his remarks in connection with the Rafale judgment, which the apex court had said was \"incorrectly attributed\" to it, saying it was made in the \"heat of political campaigning\".\n\nThe apex court on April 15 had given a categorical clarification that in its Rafale verdict there was no occasion for it to make a mention of the contemptuous observation that \"chowkidar Narendra Modi chor hain\" as has been attributed to it by Gandhi", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/rahul-gandhi-files-affidavit-in-sc-expresses-regret-over-his-remarks-on-rafale-verdict/articleshow/68987262.cms" } ], "question": "What did Rahul Gandhi apologize to the supreme court for" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In January 2007, she testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs about how the housing market was broken and could hurt consumers", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210429181444/https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/warren.pdf" } ], "question": "When did Elizabeth Warren warn about the crisis of the 2000s" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In the fall of 2008, our economy faced challenges on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. The crisis was caused by many factors. Among them were an unsustainable housing boom fueled in part by the easy availability of mortgages, financial institutions taking on too much risk, and the rapid growth of the nation’s financial system with regulations that were designed for a different era. Forces built up over many years until the crisis reached its apex in September of 2008.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210429020559/https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/pages/the-financial-crisis-five-years-later.aspx" } ], "question": "Which factors help cause the financial crisis of the 2000s" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "In a New York Times article in October 2005, the article said, \"Professor Warren of Harvard believes that disaster lurks as homeowners borrow against their homes to forestall bankruptcy. When the stock market tumbled five years ago, people in trouble could sell stocks to stay afloat, she said. But home equity doesn't work the same way. As she put it, \"You can't sell a part of your home like you could a stock in the stock market bubble.\"", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200308145629/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/nyregion/holding-off-bankruptcy-but-draining-home-equity.html" } ], "question": "Did Elizabeth Warren warn against the financial crisis?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the financial crisis of the 2000s", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What financial crisis is this claim regarding?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "December 6, 1992", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/12/6/babri-mosque-demolition-a-watershed-moment" } ], "question": "When was the Babri Mosque demolished?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "49 years", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How old was was Pragya Thakur during the Lok Sabha elections in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "around 22 years old", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "How old would Pragya Thakur have been at the time of the Babri Mosque demolition in 1992?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There's a lot of incorrect information doing the Twitter rounds this morning. This photo is the result of an unofficial event in Hyde Park on Saturday, not the #ExtinctionRebellion protestors in Marble Arch", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/theroyalparks/status/1120616230405193728" } ], "question": "What did the park authority say concerning the littered park image" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Fox news channel", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190415210315/https://twitter.com/USFoxNews" } ], "question": "Who shared the tweet?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Fox News Channel Not affiliated with Fox News Channel. it’s a Parody, dummy.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190415210315/https://twitter.com/USFoxNews" } ], "question": "Is this the real Fox news channel Twitter account?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Art and architecture have a unique ability to help us connect across our differences and bring people together in important ways. Thinking of the people of Paris and praying for every first responder trying to save this wonder.\n\n— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 15, 2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1117914834249469953" } ], "question": "Is there any tweets found by Ilhan Omar about Paris and Notre Dame?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Rep. Ilhan Omar is a freshman Democrat from Minnesota and was the first Somali-American elected to Congress.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/ilhan-omar" } ], "question": "Who is Ilhan Omar?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Facebook.com.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910061601/https://www.facebook.com/AnonymousPatriots/photos/a.129550920587096/1168403640035147/?type=3&theater" } ], "question": "Where did the image of tweet in the claim get posted?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "It was removed for being a fake image of a tweet.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200910061601/https://www.facebook.com/AnonymousPatriots/photos/a.129550920587096/1168403640035147/?type=3&theater" } ], "question": "Is the image of the tweet still available?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Vaccination protects people from natural infection mainly by stimulating the humoral immune response and establishing immunological memory against a specific pathogen. This enables the body to respond swiftly and effectively upon encountering a natural infection by that pathogen in future. However, this does not come at the expense of cell-mediated immunity, which remains robust and active after vaccination.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "With repeated use of vaccines, does the cell-mediated immunity weakens, encouraging viral mutations, and future infections of the cells?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "1. 2018/19 figures are for 9 months only (April to Dec 2018) and are preliminary;\n2. EEDBS* (or DBS): Enhanced Extended Discount Benefit Scheme refers to the Housing Programme\nthat provides state subsidies to repair / rehabilitate and even demolish & re‐build where necessary,\nGovt (rental) houses built before 1994 and then transfer houses into the ownership of legitimate occupants.\n3. In some years, such as 2014/15, 2016/17 and 2017/18, the numbers for EEDBS were removed after\nverification processes from the figure for Units as they are to be counted only under the EEDBS programme.\n4. Twenty Year totals are still: Serviced Sites Houses/ Units Total H/O\n903 543 2 835 275 3 738 818", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Housing-delivery-1994-to-2018.pdf" } ], "question": "How many houses has the South African Government delivered in South Africa ?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Between 2002 and 2015, the percentage of households that lived in formal dwellings and whose dwellings\nwere fully owned increased from 52,9% to 53,8% while the percentage of partially owned dwellings\ndeclined from 15,5% to 9,7%. About 13,6% of households had ‘other’ forms of tenure arrangements in\n2015.\nMore than three-quarters (78,1%) of South African households lived in formal dwellings, followed by 14,1%\nwho lived in informal dwellings, and 6,9% in traditional dwellings. The highest concentration of households\nin Limpopo (90,5%) lived in formal dwellings, followed by the households in Northern Cape (86,1%). The\nhighest percentage of informal dwellings were found in North West (22%) and Gauteng (21%).\nAt the time of the survey, 14,4% of South African households were living in ‘RDP’ or state-subsidised\ndwellings. A higher percentage of female-headed (18%) than male-headed households (12%) received a\ngovernment housing subsidy. Some residents have, however, raised concerns about the quality of\nsubsidised houses and 14,2% said that the walls were weak or very weak while 13,8% regarded the\ndwellings’ roofs as weak or very weak.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0318/P03182015.pdf" } ], "question": "How many people own property in South Africa ?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "A case-control study conducted from 1997 to 2003 showed that 1 dose of vaccine was 97% effective in the first year after vaccination and 86% effective in the second year. From the second to eighth year after vaccination, the vaccine effectiveness remained stable at 81 to 86%.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235210/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/varicella/hcp-effective-duration.htm" } ], "question": "Can you catch chicken pox after vaccination?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "From 1995 to 2001, chickenpox hospitalizations declined by 72 percent and deaths, among those 50 years old and younger, decreased by 75% or more.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201016180700/https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/r060629-b.htm" } ], "question": "After the vaccine for chickenpox rolled out did cases drop?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The million houses issue in Alex is a huge distortion. The ANC government intends to build 1 million over the next 5 years throughout the country. Every province will be given a target that they must meet. This is something that I would like to see and it is possible.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/CyrilRamaphosa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" } ], "question": "Has President Ramaphosa promised to build 1 million houses in Alex?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Looking within 1994/95 to 1998/99, 1999/2000 to 2003/04, 2004/05 to 2008/09, 2009/10 to 2013/14 and 2014/15 to 2018/19*. None of the five consecutive years have seen the construction of one million housing units. The highest 5-year period to see the most housing units built was in the years 1999/2000 to 2003/2004, which saw 758,342 houses built.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210418075221/https://africacheck.org/sites/default/files/Housing-delivery-1994-to-2018.pdf" } ], "question": "Has the South African government ever delivered 1 million housing units within 5 years?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "...the causes are still unknown. An investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor's office.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210906220132/https://www.gouvernement.fr/incendie-de-notre-dame-de-paris-un-drame-terrible-pour-toute-la-nation?fbclid=IwAR1qb8lLgkLFcJSVNid3YPXws9nIFR6FloBeNxPGK6Oje79tzLSFBBl-ryw" }, { "answer": "The fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral was likely to have been the result of an accident and there was no sign it was caused on purpose, Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz said on Tuesday.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210708205630/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-notredame-prosecutor/paris-prosecutor-accident-seen-as-likely-cause-of-notre-dame-fire-idUSKCN1RS0UM" } ], "question": "What caused the Notre Dame Cathedral fire?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Official figures are published on the U.S Customs and Border patrol website.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2019-Mar/bp-southwest-border-sector-deaths-fy1998-fy2018.pdf" } ], "question": "Are official figures of deaths published by US Government?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "in 2012 Texas surpassed Arizona in deaths, with the majority occurring in the Rio Grande Valley and more specifically in Brooks, County, Texas (USBP, 2012).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.txstate.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/spradley/Identifying-Migrant-Deaths-in-South-Texas.html" } ], "question": "Are more deaths reported in Brooks county than other areas of Texas?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No comprehensive estimates exist on the number of injuries or deaths that occur along the border but As of April 15, 2011, 145 bodies had been recovered in the graves, as families throughout Mexico wait to find out if their loved ones are among the dead.[", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-human-tragedy-illegal-immigration-greater-efforts-needed-combat-smuggling" } ], "question": "what is the number of dead immgrants found in the usa-meico border" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "143 infants", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210221204847/https://www.politifact.com/" } ], "question": "How many instances were there of a baby born alive after abortion between 2003 and 2014?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Infant deaths for the 12 year period 2003 – 2014 assigned to code ICD-10 code P96.4 – Termination of pregnancy, affecting fetus and newborn were reviewed.\n143 (24.3%) could definitively be classified as involving an induced termination", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_policy/mortality-records-mentioning-termination-of-pregnancy.htm" } ], "question": "How many infant death certificates in the US mention abortion/termination of pregnancy?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States.\nEach year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City).", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/ss/ss6713a1.htm" } ], "question": "Does the US collects data on abortions?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "How many infant death certificates in Texas mention abortion/termination of pregnancy?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "On January 11, 2017, the Fish and Wildlife Service published a rule to list the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis), a species that occurs in the eastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The rule was to be effective on February 10, 2017.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210725173603/https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/02/10/2017-02865/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-endangered-species-status-for-rusty-patched-bumble-bee" } ], "question": "Is the bumblebee an endangered species?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The conservation status of a species indicates the likelihood that it will become extinct. Multiple factors are considered when assessing the status of a species; e.g., such statistics as the number remaining, the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, or known threats.[4] The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the best-known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system.[5]\n\nOver 50% of the world's species are estimated to be at risk of extinction.[6] Internationally, 195 countries have signed an accord to create Biodiversity Action Plans that will protect endangered and other threatened species. In the United States, such plans are usually called Species Recovery Plans.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species" } ], "question": "When is a species considered as endangered?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "More than 75 percent of the world's food crops rely to some extent on pollination for yield and quality. The absence of bees and other pollinators would wipe out coffee, apples, almonds, tomatoes and cocoa, to name just a few of the crops that rely on pollination.\n \n\"Each one of us has an individual responsibility towards protecting bees and we should all make pollinator-friendly choices. Even growing flowers at home to feed bees contributes to this effort,\" Graziano da Silva said.\n\nPollinators, such as bees, wild bees, birds, bats, butterflies and beetles fly, hop and crawl over flowers to help plants fertilize. Pollinator numbers and diversity have declined in the past decades, and evidence indicates that the decline is primarily a consequence of human activities including climate change which can disrupt flowering seasons.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210614071304/http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1132329/icode/" } ], "question": "What role do bees play in the ecosystem?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in the United States, species may be listed as \"endangered\" or \"threatened\". The Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) is an example of an endangered subspecies protected under the ESA. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as the National Marine Fisheries Service are held responsible for classifying and protecting endangered species. They are also responsible for adding a particular species to the list, which can be a long, controversial process", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species" } ], "question": "What is the endangered species act?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "“The rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), once a common sight, is “now balancing precariously on the brink of extinction,” according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Once thriving in 28 states and the District of Columbia, but over the past two decades, the bee’s population has plummeted nearly 90 percent.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200908122742/https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/bumblebee-has-officially-been-added-to-the-ever-growing-list-of-endangered-species/?fbclid=IwAR0TUDw8OcJHPvtnzKXnV4Rna_hzBFF0Do7lFAvZoBLM-w2B3gKqRmFUO4Y" } ], "question": "why was bumblebee added to the list of endangered species?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Congress has given final approval on a resolution to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/yemen-saudi-arabia-war-us-military-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest" } ], "question": "Did the US Congress resolve to end US involvement in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "April 2019 marks the first time Congress has invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to curb the executive’s power to take the country into a conflict without congressional approval. It is aimed at ending US involvement in the long-running Yemen conflict.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/04/yemen-saudi-arabia-war-us-military-assistance-vote-congress-trump-veto-latest" } ], "question": "Has the US War Powers Act ever been invoked?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210131111121/https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BILLIONAIRE-BONANZA-2017-Embargoed.pdf" } ], "question": "Who are the 3 richest Americans?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Based on a 2017 report, the three wealthiest Americans — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett — together were worth $248.5 billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210131111121/https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BILLIONAIRE-BONANZA-2017-Embargoed.pdf" } ], "question": "How much are Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet worth combined?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The wealth of the bottom 160 million people (the bottom half) was $245 billion.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210131111121/https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BILLIONAIRE-BONANZA-2017-Embargoed.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the total net worth of the bottom 50% of the USA Population?" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Seven million adults without health insurance in 2018.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122002123/https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "How many people have lost insurance in the U.S. in 2018?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "2016 reached a low point of 10.9% of U.S. adults without health insurance, between 2008-2018.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122002123/https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "When was the lowest report of people losing their insurance in the U.S.?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "13.7%", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122002123/https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance in 2018?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The gold-standard government survey found a rise of about 1.3 million people.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Were there other reports on the rise of people in the U.S. without insurance?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "12.2% at 12 December 2017", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201122002123/https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance in 2017?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Based on a 2017 report, the three wealthiest Americans — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett — together were worth $248.5 billion. The wealth of the bottom 160 million people (the bottom half) was $245 billion.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Does The United States has three families owning more wealth than the bottom half of the American society?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "A Fox news video shows Sen. Bernie Sanders proposing a Medicare-for-all plan which he thinks would save Americans money", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210507204519/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ozAACcc8I&t=1660s" } ], "question": "What is Bernie Sanders' healthcare plans" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Patients would have no deductibles, co-pays, or other out-of-pocket costs for services covered by the plan. NYH would be financed through a new trust with money from the federal government (in place of federal financing for current health programs, if federal waivers are approved), current state health care funding, and two new progressively graduated state taxes: a payroll tax paid jointly by employers (80 percent) and employees (20 percent) and a tax on nonpayroll income", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210801011836/https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10027.html" }, { "answer": "Medicare for All could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent, to $2.93 trillion, while creating stable access to good care for all U.S. residents.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210720135344/https://peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-analysis-of-medicare-for-all" } ], "question": "How will the Medicare-for-all save American money" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Trump raised $30.3 million in the first quarter", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/2019/4/15/18311186/trump-campaign-fundraising-first-quarter-2019" } ], "question": "How much did Donald Trump raise in the first quarter of 2019 for his re-election" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Donors giving an average of just over $34", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/2019/4/15/18311186/trump-campaign-fundraising-first-quarter-2019" } ], "question": "What was the average amount given by small donors" } ]

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[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Profits for online retail behemoth Amazon soared in 2018, but it paid no federal income tax for the second consecutive year", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/15/amazon-pays-no-2018-federal-income-tax-report-says/2886639002/" } ], "question": "How much federal income taxes did Amazon pay in 2018?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "CNN explains that the U.S. tax code allows companies that lose money to reduce their future taxable income. That has worked in Amazon's favor because its past has been marked with billions of dollars in losses and some of its profits come from global sources not subject to the U.S. tax code, the network explains.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/15/amazon-pays-no-2018-federal-income-tax-report-says/2886639002/" } ], "question": "Why can Amazon avoid paying federal income tax?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Brown Valley Observer", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Who made the claim" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "On their \"About Us\" page it reads: This is an entertainment website written to satirize news events, politics, and popular faces and ideas, and to provide commentary on social attitudes and trends.\nWhile familiar names of celebrities and other media figures as well as familiar agencies and organizations are used, all news stories contained within are fictional in nature", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419061604/https://brownvalleyobserver.com/disclaimer/" } ], "question": "What kind of website is the Brown Valley Observer" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "They admit to being a satirical website", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210419061604/https://brownvalleyobserver.com/disclaimer/" } ], "question": "Is Brown Valley Observer a satirical website" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "3.0", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do" } ], "question": "What is the total unemployment rate in Germany in April 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "2.4", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do" } ], "question": "What is the total unemployment rate in Japan in April 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "3.7", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do" } ], "question": "What is the total unemployment rate in the United Kingdom in April 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "3.6", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do" } ], "question": "What is the total unemployment rate in the United States in April 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The jobless rate was 3.6 percent in April 2019", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225144058/http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000" } ], "question": "What is the unemployment rate in the US at the time the claim was made" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "3.7", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://data.worldbank.org/country/united-kingdom?view=chart" } ], "question": "What was the unemployment rate in the UK at the time the claim was made" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "In 2019, Germany had an unemployment rate of 3.1 per cent. The country therefore has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/living-in-germany/discover-germany/employment-earnings" } ], "question": "What is Germany's unemployment rate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Japan's unemployment rate varied from 2.1-2.7% in 2019.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LRUN64TTJPM156S" } ], "question": "What is Japan's unemployment rate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The 2019 UK unemployment rate was 3.8%.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-sees-record-employment-as-unemployment-falls-below-4-per-cent" } ], "question": "What is the UK's unemployment rate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The US unemployment rate varied between 3.6 and 4% in 2019.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225144058/http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000" } ], "question": "What is the US unemployment rate?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes, the average unemployment in U.S was 3.8% in 2018, 3.6 % in 2019, which was a hair lower than U.K as per Sanders.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000" } ], "question": "Is unemployment in U.S 3.8% in 2019 ?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There’s no question that the top 5 percent do the best by far under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. But in the early years, about half of the tax breaks go to the bottom 90 percent of taxpayers. It’s only later that the picture skews as hard toward the wealthiest, as Sanders said.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/10/tax-march/nevada-tv-ad-cherry-picks-tax-cut-benefits-top-1/" }, { "answer": "about half of the tax breaks go to the bottom 90 percent of taxpayers.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jul/10/tax-march/nevada-tv-ad-cherry-picks-tax-cut-benefits-top-1/" } ], "question": "In the Republican tax bill, did the 83% of the benefits went to the top 1%?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the benefits of the law would be heavily concentrated among the upper-middle and upper-class Americans, with nearly two-thirds of the benefit going to the richest fifth of Americans in 2018.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/republican-tax-bill-congress-conference-tax-policy-center" } ], "question": "Who benefits most from tax break benefits?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "corporate rate cuts mostly", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/republican-tax-bill-congress-conference-tax-policy-center" } ], "question": "Who were the most tax cuts aimed at?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "corporate rate cuts mostly help Americans rich enough to own stock, that means that in 2027, poor and middle-class Americans would see a very mild tax increase on average:", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/republican-tax-bill-congress-conference-tax-policy-center" } ], "question": "Do lower earners benefit much from corporate tax cuts?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The January 2019 Gallup estimate", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225050052/https://www.politifact.com/" }, { "answer": "The January 2019 Gallup estimate", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210225102515/https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "Where are Sanders' numbers from?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "2.8 percentage points from its low in 2016. Gallup ran the numbers and converted that rise into 7 million people who lost insurance.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Image/graphic", "source_url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=NEWSFEED&g_campaign=item_&g_content=U.S.%2520Uninsured%2520Rate%2520Rises%2520to%2520Four-Year%2520High" } ], "question": "What does the Gallup estimate to be the amount of people who lost insurance in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "About 1.3 million people.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "What number did the government survey say?" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, 1995\n- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream. 2008.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Barack_Obama" } ], "question": "Did Barack Obama write any Autobiographies before 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The right wing loved to misquote Obama", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.quora.com/Obama-said-I-will-stand-with-the-Muslims-should-the-political-winds-shift-in-an-ugly-direction-What-does-this-mean" } ], "question": "Does he state ''If The Political Winds Should Shift, I Will Side With The Muslims'' in any of these autobiographies?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that ''I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly'' direction.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.quora.com/Obama-said-I-will-stand-with-the-Muslims-should-the-political-winds-shift-in-an-ugly-direction-What-does-this-mean" } ], "question": "Which Barack Obama quote is misquoted as saying ''If The Political Winds Should Shift, I Will Side With The Muslims''?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "If you've seen this link on your social media timeline, don't fall for it. This story is not true.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/canhcnigeria/status/1118081494747176960?lang=en-GB" } ], "question": "What has the press said regarding this since the story was published by CBTV?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The law was one that allowed the mentally ill to be anonymous in buying guns", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/3/14496774/congress-guns-mental-illness" } ], "question": "Was there a law that prevented the mentally ill from purchasing guns in the U.S" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Congress did repeal a rule that made it harder for people with mental illness to buy a gun", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/3/14496774/congress-guns-mental-illness" } ], "question": "Did the Republicans revoke a law in 2017 that affects the mentally ill and their purchase of guns" } ]

[ "Quote Verification" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "There is no record of Barkha Dutt tweeting 13 April 2019 about BJP being Anti-Muslim", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/BDUTT" } ], "question": "What has Barkha Dutt tweeted 13th April 2019 about BJP?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Dutt tweeted: \"Stop sharing fake news and photo shopped images\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1118199842541424640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" } ], "question": "How has Barkha Dutt responded to this claim?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "President Donald Trump criticized New York Democrats on Twitter, asserting they blocked a bill expanding access to college tuition for military families after they approved aid for \"illegal immigrants.\"\n\n\"In New York State, Democrats blocked a Bill expanding College Tuition for Gold Star families after approving aid for illegal immigrants,\" Trump wrote. \"No wonder so many people are leaving N.Y. Very Sad!\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201108001614/https://video.foxnews.com/v/6025873592001/#sp=show-clips" } ], "question": "Is Trump in favor of expanding military benefits?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "New York Democrats blocked a bill expanding college aid for gold star families", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://www.foxnews.com/video/6025873592001#sp=show-clips" } ], "question": "Did New York democrats block and deny expanding college benefits for families of servicemembers in 2019?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "they made a decision to halt tuition expansion for military families whilst they were in favour of aid for illegal immigrants.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Video", "source_url": "https://www.foxnews.com/video/6025873592001#sp=show-clips" } ], "question": "Had New York Democrats already approved aid for illegal immigrants whilst blocking the college bill?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "\"I take the extra-ordinary step of attaching the afore-mentioned confidential report from the CEO of the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission as an annex to my annual report on Values to Parliament.\n\nConsequently, I hereby direct that all Officials of the National and County governments that are adversely mentioned in this report, whether you are a Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary, or Chief Executive of a state institution, to immediately step aside pending conclusion of the investigations of the allegations against them.\"", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.president.go.ke/2015/03/26/speech-by-his-excellency-hon-uhuru-kenyatta-c-g-h-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-the-defence-forces-of-the-republic-of-kenya-during-the-state-of-the-nation-address-at-parliament-buildings-na/" } ], "question": "Were members of the 2015 Kenyan Government asked to step aside?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday suspended Cabinet Secretaries Kazungu Kambi (Labour), Michael Kamau (Transport), Davis Chirchir (Energy) and Felix Koskei (Agriculture) after being named in EACC report.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156421/president-uhuru-kenyatta-suspends-kenyan-ministers" } ], "question": "Were any ministers suspended?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu yesterday walked out of her Ardhi House office, claiming that powerful individuals had succeeded in pushing for her inclusion in the graft list submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta by Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission ( EACC).", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156686/charity-ngilu-steps-aside-links-troubles-to-reforms-in-lands-ministry" } ], "question": "Did any members step aside?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "President Uhuru Kenyatta has sacked the five Cabinet Secretaries suspended over corruption claims.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183491/five-cabinet-secretaries-axed-in-reshuffle-as-two-mps-nominated" } ], "question": "Were these five removed from the Cabinet?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Anne Waiguru, who until Saturday served as the Devolution Cabinet Secretary, has finally bowed to public pressure to resign.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183189/waiguru-finally-bows-to-pressure-resigns-from-jubilee-government" } ], "question": "Did anyone else leave the government?" } ]

[ "Position Statement" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The wording was actually \"complete 57 mega dams\".", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://deputypresident.go.ke/images/jpmanifesto2017.pdf" }, { "answer": "The wording was actually \"complete 57 mega dams\". Some of the dams had previously started construction.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://deputypresident.go.ke/images/jpmanifesto2017.pdf" } ], "question": "In 2017, did the Kenyan Government manifesto say they would construct 57 mega dams?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Non-Hispanic black women experience maternal deaths at a rate three\nto four times that of non-Hispanic white women.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the childbirth mortality rate for black women in USA compared to non-Hispanic white women?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In New York from 2006 to 2010, the pregnancy related mortality for Black, non-Hispanic women was 12 times higher\nthan that of White, non-Hispanic women", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/ms/pregnancy-associated-mortality-report.pdf" } ], "question": "What is the childbirth mortality rate for black women in New York compared to non-Hispanic white women?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Cabinet secretary Michael Kamau was charged in 2015.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220126111044/http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/139163/" }, { "answer": "Charity Ngilu was taken to court and charged but the case was dropped in 2017.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "Did any of the ministers go to court to be charged?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of Kenya make up to 89% of the country,", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.undp.org/kenya/press-releases/unlocking-potential-arid-and-semi-arid-lands-kenya" } ], "question": "Does 85% of Kenya range between arid and semi-arid?" } ]

[ "Causal Claim", "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "For AP Elections 2019, Special Trains and extra coaches to various trains have been provided by the Indian Railways to reduce the extra rush", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "http://www.scr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_detail.jsp?lang=0&id=0,5,268&dcd=12486&did=1554719780093995DB6A6EA0EA18D889332FEF3BEE89C" } ], "question": "Were any Special Trains from Hyderabad provided to facilitate people going to Andhra Pradesh for the AP Elections, in 2019?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The BBC press office tweeted about a fake survey in May 2018 with its stance on commissioning pre-election surveys in India, stating - This fake survey on Karnataka polls has been circulating on Whats App and claims to be from BBC News. We'd like to make it absolutely clear that it is #fake and does not come from the BBC. The BBC does not commission pre-election surveys in India.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://twitter.com/bbcnewspr/status/993481379341053952" } ], "question": "Had the the BBC published anything related to pre-election polls in India by the time of the claim?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "If re-elected the Jubilee Government will: Complete the 57-large-scale dam construction programme", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "http://deputypresident.go.ke/images/jpmanifesto2017.pdf" } ], "question": "Did the 2017 manifesto of the Kenyan Jubilee Party include the construction of 57 mega dams?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "From 2006-2010 the PRMR for black non Hispanic women was 56.3%\n\n\n(See page 9 of source.)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210626044636/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/ms/pregnancy-associated-mortality-report.pdf#page=5" } ], "question": "What is the Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR) for black women in the NY?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "From 2006-2010 the PRMR for Hispanic women was 15.9%\n\n(See page 9 of source.)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210626044636/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/ms/pregnancy-associated-mortality-report.pdf#page=5" } ], "question": "What is the Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR) for Hispanic women in the NY?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "From 2006-2010 the PRMR for Asian/Pacific\nIslander women was 19.9%", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210626044636/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/ms/pregnancy-associated-mortality-report.pdf#page=5" } ], "question": "What is the Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR) for Asian/Pacific\nIslander women in the NY?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "From 2006-2010 the PRMR for White, non Hispanic women was 4.7%\n\n\n(See page 9 of source.)", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210626044636/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/ms/pregnancy-associated-mortality-report.pdf#page=5" } ], "question": "What is the Pregnancy-Related Mortality Ratio (PRMR) for White, non Hispanic women in the NY?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "48.2%\n(page 15 of source)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210710002841/https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf#page=6" } ], "question": "Nationwide, What Proportion of Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Determined to be Pregnancy-Related were non Hispanic black women?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "30.2%\n(page 15 of source)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210710002841/https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf#page=6" } ], "question": "Nationwide, What Proportion of Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Determined to be Pregnancy-Related were Hispanic women?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "28.4%\n(page 15 of source)", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210710002841/https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf#page=6" } ], "question": "Nationwide, What Proportion of Pregnancy-Associated Deaths Determined to be Pregnancy-Related were White women?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Consultation" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Land Act sets out how public land can be allocated to private individuals, businesses and foreign governments.\n\n“Where the land allocated … is not developed in accordance with the terms and conditions stipulated in the lease, that land shall automatically revert back to the national or county government, as the case may be,” the law says.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210118134705/http://kenyalaw.org/kl/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/LegalNotices/2017/LN284_2017.pdf" } ], "question": "What act regulates the allocation of public land?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "“The presumption is that when you are given [public] land you must put it into good use as stipulated in the lease agreement. That is what guides the transaction,” David Mufuayia of land rights lobby the Kenya Land Alliance told Africa Check.\n\nFor example, public land provided under the export processing zone law must be developed within two years.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210118134705/http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2017-05/LandAct2012.pdf#page=22" } ], "question": "Must the land allocated, be developed?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "it is not always this clear cut. “It is very difficult to apply [the two-year-rule] across the board, because the land is normally leased specific to the use,” said Ibrahim Mwathane, chair of the Land Development and Governance Institute.\n\n“The government would normally attach a whole lot of conditions on a lease, and one would need to look at those conditions and decide whether they have been complied with or contravened.” Mwathane is also a columnist on land issues for the country’s Daily Nation newspaper.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210118134705/http://www.ldgi.org/~ldgi/index.php/about-us/11-directors/4-mr-ibrahim-mwathane" } ], "question": "Is this always applied across the board?" } ]

[ "Numerical Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence", "Numerical Comparison" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Today, I take the extra-ordinary step of attaching the afore-mentioned confidential report from the CEO of the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission as an annex to my annual report on Values to Parliament.\n\n(b) Consequently, I hereby direct that all Officials of the National and County governments that are adversely mentioned in this report, whether you are a Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary, or Chief Executive of a state institution, to immediately step aside pending conclusion of the investigations of the allegations against them.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.president.go.ke/2015/03/26/speech-by-his-excellency-hon-uhuru-kenyatta-c-g-h-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-the-defence-forces-of-the-republic-of-kenya-during-the-state-of-the-nation-address-at-parliament-buildings-na/" } ], "question": "Were any Kenyan ministers asked to step aside in the 2015-19 term of office?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday suspended Cabinet Secretaries Kazungu Kambi (Labour), Michael Kamau (Transport), Davis Chirchir (Energy) and Felix Koskei (Agriculture) after being named in EACC report.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150413214351/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156421/president-uhuru-kenyatta-suspends-kenyan-ministers" }, { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Suspended Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu yesterday walked out of her Ardhi House office, claiming that powerful individuals had succeeded in pushing for her inclusion in the graft list submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta by Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission ( EACC).", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150423132304/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156686/charity-ngilu-steps-aside-links-troubles-to-reforms-in-lands-ministry" } ], "question": "Were any government officials suspended?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Anne Waiguru, who until Saturday served as the Devolution Cabinet Secretary, has finally bowed to public pressure to resign.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160123040821/http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183189/waiguru-finally-bows-to-pressure-resigns-from-jubilee-government" } ], "question": "Did any other government officials leave government?" } ]

[ "Event/Property Claim" ]

[ "Written Evidence" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has suspended four cabinet ministers and 12 other high-ranking officials after they were implicated in corrupt deals. The suspended cabinet secretaries are Felix Kosgey (Agriculture), Davis Chirchir (Energy), Michael Kamau (Transport) and Kazungu Kambi (Labour).", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nehandaradio.com/2015/03/29/kenyan-ministers-suspended-over-corruption-claims/" } ], "question": "Who are the Kenyan government ministers against whom allegations were made in 2015?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The High Court has ordered suspended Transport Cabinet Secretary Eng Michael Kamau to appear before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday morning in relation to the graft charges leveled against him.\nEng Kamau faces charges of abuse of office due to allegations of his involvement in irregular awarding of a Ksh 33 million shillings tender for the redesigning of Kamukuywa-Kaptama-Kapsokwony-Sirisia road in Western Kenya.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.citizen.digital/news/court-orders-transport-cs-michael-kamau-to-appear-before-it-87814" } ], "question": "Have any of the Kenyan government ministers against whom allegations were made, been charged in court?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The appellant Eng. Michael Sistu Mwaura Kamau, who at the material time was the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220126111044/http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/139163/" }, { "answer": "former Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "Out of the dropped Kenyan ministers, who has gone to court over allegations leveled against them?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The court on Monday dropped the case following a Court of Appeal order that declared the trial unconstitutional.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "Has former lands minister Charity Ngilu been found guilty in court?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Mrs Ngilu was on June 19 charged with obstructing the commission officials from investigating the 134-acre Karen land scandal.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "What was former lands minister Charity Ngilu charged for?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "As of 2019, former Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure Michael Kamau is still in the midst of court proceedings.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190418140840/https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2019/04/dpp-urged-to-reconsider-case-against-ex-cs-michael-kamau/" } ], "question": "Has former Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure Michael Kamau been found guilty in court?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "In the media briefing on 24th May 2015, the EACC through its Chief Executive Officer announced that it had completed investigations and had recommended the prosecution of the appellant for the offence of abuse of office contrary to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (ACECA). On 28th May 2015, the DPP announced that he had concurred with the recommendation of the EACC and made a decision to charge the appellant as aforesaid. Subsequently the appellant was arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court, Milimani, in Criminal Case No. 11 of 2015 to answer to the corruption charges.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220126111044/http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/139163/" } ], "question": "What was former Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure Michael Kamau charged with?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "In a 2015 state of the nation address, President Uhuru Kenyatta asked that \"...all Officials of the National and County governments that are adversely mentioned in this report, whether you are a Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary, or Chief Executive of a state institution, to immediately step aside pending conclusion of the investigations of the allegations against them. \"", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200622215800/https://www.president.go.ke/2015/03/26/speech-by-his-excellency-hon-uhuru-kenyatta-c-g-h-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-the-defence-forces-of-the-republic-of-kenya-during-the-state-of-the-nation-address-at-parliament-buildings-na/" } ], "question": "Were ministers in the last term asked to step aside?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Four cabinet secretaries were suspended: Kazungu Kambi (Labour), Michael Kamau (Transport), Davis Chirchir (Energy) and Felix Koskei (Agriculture).", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150413214351/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156421/president-uhuru-kenyatta-suspends-kenyan-ministers" } ], "question": "How many ministers were suspended by the president's office?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Suspended Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu yesterday walked out of her Ardhi House office, claiming that powerful individuals had succeeded in pushing for her inclusion in the graft list submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta by Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission ( EACC).", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150423132304/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156686/charity-ngilu-steps-aside-links-troubles-to-reforms-in-lands-ministry" } ], "question": "Did any cabinet members step down?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The president sacked the five a day after unveiling tough measures to bolster the war against corruption on the back of rising reports of grand corruption and public demands that he acts to reverse the trend.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190419065916/https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183491/five-cabinet-secretaries-axed-in-reshuffle-as-two-mps-nominated" } ], "question": "Were the five suspended cabinet members dropped from the cabinet?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Anne Waiguru, who until Saturday served as the Devolution Cabinet Secretary, has finally bowed to public pressure to resign.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160123040821/http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183189/waiguru-finally-bows-to-pressure-resigns-from-jubilee-government" } ], "question": "Did any cabinet members resign?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "In a 2015 state of the nation address, President Uhuru Kenyatta asked that \"...all Officials of the National and County governments that are adversely mentioned in this report, whether you are a Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary, or Chief Executive of a state institution, to immediately step aside", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200622215800/https://www.president.go.ke/2015/03/26/speech-by-his-excellency-hon-uhuru-kenyatta-c-g-h-president-and-commander-in-chief-of-the-defence-forces-of-the-republic-of-kenya-during-the-state-of-the-nation-address-at-parliament-buildings-na/" } ], "question": "Were ministers in the last political term before 2019 asked to step aside?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Four cabinet secretaries... Kazungu Kambi (Labour), Michael Kamau (Transport), Davis Chirchir (Energy) and Felix Koskei (Agriculture).", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150413214351/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156421/president-uhuru-kenyatta-suspends-kenyan-ministers" } ], "question": "How many ministers were made to step aside by the president's office?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Charity Ngilu was also included in the list", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150423132304/http://standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156686/charity-ngilu-steps-aside-links-troubles-to-reforms-in-lands-ministry" }, { "answer": "Anne Waiguru, finally bowed to public pressure to resign.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160123040821/http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183189/waiguru-finally-bows-to-pressure-resigns-from-jubilee-government" } ], "question": "Did any other cabinet members step down?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "The president sacked the five in the list after unveiling tough measures to bolster the war against corruption", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190419065916/https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183491/five-cabinet-secretaries-axed-in-reshuffle-as-two-mps-nominated" }, { "answer": "Anne Waiguru, resigned.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160123040821/http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000183189/waiguru-finally-bows-to-pressure-resigns-from-jubilee-government" } ], "question": "Were all of the 6 listed members suspended or dropped from the cabinet?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "They were both acquitted after successfully challenging the composition of the ethics agency. But Kamau was back in court in April 2019, on the same charges.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.eacc.go.ke/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/EACC_2015-2016-Annual-Report.pdf" } ], "question": "Is it true that None of Kenya's dropped ministers made it to court because the allegations that were made [against them] did not have any basis?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Former Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau was charged with violating procurement laws.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20220126111044/http://kenyalaw.org/caselaw/cases/view/139163/" }, { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Charity Ngilu, a former lands minister, was charged with obstructing commission officials from investigating the 134-acre Karen land scandal.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "Out of the dropped ministers, were there any who were charged and taken to court?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A criminal case against former Lands Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu touching on the Sh8 billion Karen land has been terminated.\n\nThe court on Monday dropped the case following a Court of Appeal order that declared the trial unconstitutional.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ngilus-trial-sh8bn-karen-land-terminated/" } ], "question": "Was Charity Ngilu, a former land minister, acquitted?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Although he was first acquitted, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered that former Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau be charged afresh over corruption. This was due to new evidence sufficient to convict the former CS whose previous case was dismissed by Court of Appeal.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2018/05/dpp-orders-fresh-prosecution-of-former-transport-cs-kamau/" } ], "question": "Was former Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau acquitted?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "The Texas Constitution includes four limitations on state\nspending:\n• Debt limit\n• Welfare spending limit\n• Pay-as-you-go limit\n• Limit on the growth of certain appropriations (a.k.a.\nspending limit)\nHouse Bill 1 is within all of these limits", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "PDF", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210306011441/https://www.lbb.state.tx.us/Documents/Publications/Presentation/5671_spen.pdf" } ], "question": "Is the Senate Bill 1 within the spending limit of the Texas constitution" } ]

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[ "Numerical Comparison", "Fact-checker Reference" ]

[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "This is an example of a line that appears to have been tweaked in response to a fact check. Harris used to say that “over 11 million Americans spend more than half of what they make on rent,” adding that “this means less money for other necessities like bus fares, groceries, heat and medicine.”", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210721224459/https://checkyourfact.com/2018/07/31/fact-check-11-million-half-income-rent/" } ], "question": "What did Kamalla Harris say about American democracy?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "More than 11 million renter households, most with incomes below the poverty line, pay more than half their income for housing.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210703030621/https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/renters-credit-would-help-low-wage-workers-seniors-and-people-with-disabilities#_ftn2" } ], "question": "How many Americans spend more than half of their income on housing?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Money has been seized multiple times from BJP workers - numerous of times.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.newsclick.in/bjp-workers-were-involved-money-laundering-during-demonetization" } ], "question": "Has money ever been seized from the BJP?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "A cheque to withdraw Rs 8 crore in cash was signed by the BJP’s state president K. Laxman and was later seized by the Hyderabad police.", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://thewire.in/politics/hyderabad-police-seize-8-crore-cash-bjp" } ], "question": "How much withdrawn money has been seized from BJP’s bank account?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No match found", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://catalog.folger.edu/search?ln=en&p=I%20always%20feel%20happy&f=&c=Books%20%26%20Serials&c=Manuscripts&c=Subscription%20databases&c=Art%20%26%20Objects&c=Other%20formats&sf=&so=d&rg=25" } ], "question": "Did William Shakespeare write, “I always feel happy, you know why? Because I don’t expect anything from anyone. Expectations always hurt. Life is short, so love your life, be happy. And keep smiling. Just live for yourself and before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you pray, forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before you quit, try. Before you die, live.”?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Before you speak, listen.\nBefore you write, think.\nBefore you spend, earn.\nBefore you invest, investigate.\nBefore you criticize, wait.\nBefore you pray, forgive.\nBefore you quit, try.\nBefore you retire, save.\nBefore you die, give.\n\nWilliam Arthur Ward", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/before-you-20/" } ], "question": "Is there a similar quote from someone else?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "“We are ready to explain to any Ukrainian citizen that Russia is not occupying any Ukrainian territories and generally there can be no talk about that,\" the Kremlin spokesman said.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210126183559/https://www.polygraph.info/a/kremlin-no-occupation-ukraine-fact-check/29855070.html" }, { "answer": "The statements of Dzhabarov and Podlesny both echo the official position of the Russian government, which has consistently insisted it is not a party to the conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210127165617/https://www.polygraph.info/a/rt-ukraine-russia-donbas/28912097.html" } ], "question": "Has Putin/Russia said more than once that for settling the conflict in Donbass the most important thing is not dialogue with Moscow, because Moscow is not a party to this conflict. It is an intra-Ukrainian conflict and it is up to the Ukrainians to settle it, if they talk to each other.\"" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Russian national Igor Strelkov, a former commander of pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine, has claimed personal responsibility for unleashing the conflict in which 4,300 people have been killed since April.\n\n\"I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war,\" Strelkov said in an interview published Thursday with Russia's Zavtra newspaper, which espouses imperialist views.\n\n\"If our unit hadn't crossed the border, everything would have fizzled out — like in [the Ukrainian city of] Kharkiv, like in Odessa,\" Strelkov, who uses that nom-de-guerre meaning \"Shooter\" to replace his last name Girkin, was quoted as saying.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210125013528/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598" } ], "question": "Did Russia trigger the Ukrainian invasion of Donbass?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Yes", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "Russia says no proof it sent troops, arms to east Ukraine.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210421102343/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-lavrov/russia-says-no-proof-it-sent-troops-arms-to-east-ukraine-idUSKBN0KU12Y20150121" } ], "question": "Has Russia denied being a party to the conflict in eastern Ukraine?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "One obvious sign to look for is equipment that’s either exclusively used by Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, or has not ever been in manufactured or service in Ukraine. The modernized T-72B3 main battle tank has been an example of military equipment that is out of place in a conflict where Russian government actively denies military involvement.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123143149/https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2015/05/28/tankspotting-how-to-identify-the-t-72b3/" }, { "answer": "A Dutch-led international criminal investigation has concluded that the Buk missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 came from Russia's 53rd Antiaircraft Missile Brigade.\n\nThe Joint Investigative Team (JIT), comprising authorities from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, made the announcement at a press conference on May 24 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.\n\nMH17 was shot down over the conflict zone in Ukraine's Donetsk region on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.\n\nThe JIT \"has come to the conclusion that the Buk-TELAR that shot down MH17 came from the 53rd Antiaircraft Missile Brigade based in Kursk in Russia,\" top Dutch investigator Wilbert Paulissen told reporters. \"The 53rd Brigade is part of Russia's armed forces.\"", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210111223743/https://www.rferl.org/a/mh17-criminal-probe-to-appeal-to-the-public-for-help/29246988.html" } ], "question": "What kinds of evidence have been discovered in connection with Russia's involvement in eastern Ukraine?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "No", "answer_type": "Boolean", "boolean_explanation": "The research for this claim is about whether Russia (Moscow) played a role in the Donbass conflict.", "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Metadata", "source_url": "Metadata" } ], "question": "Is this claim a quote verification?" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "No answer could be found.", "answer_type": "Unanswerable", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "", "source_url": "" } ], "question": "What was the unemployment rate in South Bend before 2012" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "Building of a Casino in South Bend", "answer_type": "Abstractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210110140043/https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/south-bend-pokagon-band-reach-agreements-related-to-casino-project/article_6e2f14f6-f0fc-11e5-bf0b-4bf1365a3744.html" } ], "question": "Which economic projects were done by Senator Buttigieg in South Bend Indiana to reduce the unemployment rate" } ]

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[ { "answers": [ { "answer": "Strong minority and black voter turnout made a difference in electing the first African-American president in 2008 and again in 2012. But without Obama on the ticket in 2016, the black turnout rate fell for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, Pew found, down to 59 percent.", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web text", "source_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210522073024/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of black voters in the last elections?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "26.6 percent", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/05/18/census-shows-pervasive-decline-in-2016-minority-voter-turnout/" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of minority eligible voters in 2008?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "28.9 percent", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/05/18/census-shows-pervasive-decline-in-2016-minority-voter-turnout/" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of minority eligible voters in 2012?" }, { "answers": [ { "answer": "31.1 percent", "answer_type": "Extractive", "boolean_explanation": null, "cached_source_url": null, "source_medium": "Web table", "source_url": "https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/05/18/census-shows-pervasive-decline-in-2016-minority-voter-turnout/" } ], "question": "What was the percentage of minority eligible voters in 2016?" } ]