Information: - Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is a killing committed in the absence of "malice", brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. "Involuntary" manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent ("mens rea"), recklessness. - Carthage is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,205 at the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Moore County. - North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh. The most populous municipality is Charlotte, and it is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. - The Carthage nursing home shooting was a mass murder that occurred on March 29 , 2009 , when a gunman opened fire at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage , North Carolina . The shooter , 45 - year - old Robert Stewart , killed eight people and wounded a ninth person before being shot and apprehended by a responding police officer , who was also wounded by gunfire . Stewart 's estranged wife , a nurse at the nursing home and the apparent main target , survived the shooting unharmed , as she was hiding in a bathroom in the Alzheimer ward of the building , which is secured by passcode - protected doors . Stewart , who is being held in North Carolina 's maximum security Central Prison in Raleigh , was charged with eight counts of first - degree murder . On September 3 , 2011 , he was found guilty of eight counts of second - degree murder and sentenced to 142 years to 179 - and - a - half years in prison . The defense had argued that Stewart was under the influence of Ambien during the shooting , leaving him unable to control his actions . - Suicide by police is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner, with intent to provoke a lethal response from a public safety or law enforcement officer. - Mass murder (sometimes interchangeable with "mass destruction") is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. The FBI defines mass murder as murdering four or more persons during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders. A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more people kill several others. Many acts of mass murder end with the perpetrator(s) dying by suicide or suicide by cop. - A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China and Taiwan. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'carthage nursing home shooting'. Choices: - census - city - civil parish - county seat - event - function - government - human - jurisdiction - law - location - mass - method - murder - ocean - officer - parish - police - population - region - seat of government - single - state - suicide - term - town - virginia
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Information: - Samuel Earle (28 November 1760 24 November 1833) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Frederick County, Virginia, he moved to South Carolina in 1774; he participated in the American Revolutionary War, entering the service as an ensign in the 5th South Carolina Regiment in 1777 and leaving as captain of a company of rangers in 1782. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1784 to 1788, and was a delegate to the State convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution on 12 May 1788; he was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention in 1790. - South Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the south and west by Georgia across the Savannah River, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. - The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the upper house being the South Carolina Senate. It consists of 124 Representatives elected to two year terms at the same time as US Congressional elections. - North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh. The most populous municipality is Charlotte, and it is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. - John Baylis Earle ( October 23 , 1766 -- February 3 , 1836 ) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina , nephew of Elias Earle and cousin of Samuel Earle . Born on the North Carolina side of the North Pacolet River , near Landrum , South Carolina , Earle moved to South Carolina . He completed preparatory studies . He served as a drummer boy and soldier during the Revolutionary War . He engaged in agricultural pursuits . Earle was elected as a Democratic - Republican to the Eighth Congress ( March 4 , 1803 -- March 3 , 1805 ) . He declined to be a candidate for re-election in 1804 . He resumed agricultural pursuits . He served as adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina for sixteen years . He served throughout the War of 1812 . He served as member of the nullification convention of 1832 and 1833 . He died in Anderson County , South Carolina , February 3 , 1836 and was interred in the cemetery on his plantation , '' Silver Glade , '' in Anderson County . - An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain. - Elias Earle (June 19, 1762 May 19, 1823) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Frederick County, Virginia, he attended private school and moved to Greenville County, South Carolina, in September 1787. He was one of the earliest ironmasters of the South, and prospected and negotiated in the iron region of Georgia. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'position held' with the subject 'john b. earle'. Choices: - delegate - manager - senate - united states representative - york
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united states representative