TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a context, a subject, a relation, and many options. Based on the context, from the options select the object entity that has the given relation with the subject. Answer with text (not indexes).
PROBLEM: Context: Pine Bluff is the ninth largest city in the state of Arkansas. it is the county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is also the principal city of the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area and part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area. The population of the city was 49,083 in the 2010 Census, however 2011 estimates show the population has since declined to 48,339., The Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) consortium organizes nine "institutes for advanced study" founded on the same principles as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The members are:, Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges, among which it shared with Bryn Mawr College the popular reputation of having a particularly intellectual, literary, and independent-minded student body. Radcliffe conferred Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history and then joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates beginning in 1963. A formal "non-merger merger" agreement with Harvard was signed in 1977, with full integration with Harvard completed in 1999. Today, within Harvard University, Radcliffe's former administrative campus (Radcliffe Yard) is home to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and former Radcliffe housing at the Radcliffe Quadrangle (Pforzheimer House, Cabot House, and Currier House) has been incorporated into the Harvard College house system. Under the terms of the 1999 consolidation, the Radcliffe Yard and the Radcliffe Quadrangle retain the "Radcliffe" designation in perpetuity., The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and now a division of Harvard University, carries on many of the research and professional development programs that Radcliffe College pioneered and has introduced other programs to the worldwide community of scholars. It is one of the nine member institutions of the Some Institutes for Advanced Study consortium., Constance Merritt is an American poet . Born in Pine Bluff , Arkansas in 1966 , and educated at the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock . She is also the winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Book Award . In 2001 , Merritt received a grant from the Rona Jaffe Writers ' Foundation and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . From 2003 to 2005 , Merritt served as the Margaret Banister Writer - in - Residence at Sweet Briar College . Merritt lives in Louisville , Kentucky ., The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context. The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The term "Ivy League" has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism., Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636, whose history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the world's most prestigious universities., 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., Sweet Briar College is a women's liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States, about north of Lynchburg. The college is on in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the former estate of the college's founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams. Sweet Briar was established in 1901 as the Sweet Briar Institute and opened its doors in 1906. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, and Master of Education., Virginia (, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as well as in the historic Southeast. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" due to its status as the first colonial possession established in mainland British America, and "Mother of Presidents" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most populous city, and Fairfax County is the most populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's estimated population is over 8.3 million, which is slightly less than New York City., Subject: constance merritt, Relation: employer, Options: (A) brown university (B) canada (C) capital (D) habitat (E) harvard university (F) institute for advanced study (G) new york city (H) princeton university (I) radcliffe college (J) radcliffe institute for advanced study

SOLUTION: radcliffe college

PROBLEM: Context: In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly varied form and style, from the late medieval era to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margaret Bent, "a piece of music in several parts with words" is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve from the 13th to the late 16th century and beyond. The late 13th-century theorist Johannes de Grocheo believed that the motet was "not to be celebrated in the presence of common people, because they do not notice its subtlety, nor are they delighted in hearing it, but in the presence of the educated and of those who are seeking out subtleties in the arts.", Baroque music (or ) is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, Francois Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schutz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Pachelbel., Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a "genre" or a "style" of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The term derives from Italian "concerto" which means "playing together" hence "concertato" means "in the style of a concerto." In contemporary usage, the term is almost always used as an adjective, for example "three pieces from the set are in "concertato" style.", Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era. Consensus among music historians with notable dissent has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as it is understood in other disciplines. As in the other arts, the music of the period was significantly influenced by the developments which define the Early Modern period: the rise of humanistic thought; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; increased innovation and discovery; the growth of commercial enterprises; the rise of a bourgeois class; and the Protestant Reformation. From this changing society emerged a common, unifying musical language, in particular the polyphonic style (this means music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously) of the Franco-Flemish school, whose greatest master was Josquin des Prez., Ignazio Donati ( c. 1570 -- 21 January 1638 ) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era . He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet . Donati was born in Casalmaggiore ( now in the Province of Cremona ) . Little is known about his earliest years , but he must have had a thorough early musical training , and his succession of posts at various cathedrals in Italian towns is well documented : he served successively at Urbino , Pesaro , Fano , Ferrara , Casalmaggiore , Novara , and Lodi , eventually acquiring the prestigious post at Milan Cathedral in 1629 , which he kept with one short break until his death . Donati wrote '' sacred concertos '' , motets , masses and psalm settings . Most of Donati 's music is sacred , and his style tends towards the cheerful , the light , and the practical . He wrote motets using the new concertato style pioneered by the composers of the Venetian School , though he was not associated with Venice himself . Most of his music is for two to five voices with instrumental accompaniment including basso continuo , and some of his works -- for example a book of psalm settings -- exist in several settings for different types of performance , with different instrumental and vocal forces . Ignazio Donati wrote the Sacri concentus and published it in Venice in 1612 ; here he defined the '' cantar lontano '' vocal practice . In some of his music he went even farther , and suggested multiple performance ideas -- from singing only a very few parts , to using multiple choruses with instrumental doubling , based on the resources of the performing ensemble and the type of effect required by the performance occasion . This kind of practical advice is rarely found in the writings accompanying the music of the Venetian school composers , who had massive , virtuoso , well - paid ensembles at their disposal , but it would have been essential to the musical establishments at the small provincial towns in which Donati worked . In addition to his concertato motets and other mixed instrumental - vocal music , he wrote some relatively conservative masses , which , however , are not in the polyphonic Palestrina style but find a middle - ground between the stile antico and the more modern harmonic practice ., Subject: ignazio donati, Relation: movement, Options: (A) baroque (B) baroque music (C) renaissance

SOLUTION: baroque music

PROBLEM: Context: History.
Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Fukushima prefecture was part of what was known as Mutsu Province., During the Edo period, Aizu was a feudal domain known as . It was part of Mutsu Province; the area once was part of Iwase Province in the 8th century and, before the prefectural system, Iwashiro Province. Although never an official province in its own right, Aizu was considered as such "de facto", and even today local Japan Rail stations prefix "Aizu-" to names instead of "Iwashiro-", as it was for stations around the center of Fukushima Prefecture., Early life.
Matsudaira Katamori was born in the Yotsuya district of Edo, on February 15, 1836, at the residence of the Takasu Domain He was the seventh son of Matsudaira Yoshitatsu, daimyo of Takasu, born by one of Yoshitatsu's concubines, a woman of the Komori family whose name is believed by some scholars to be Komori Chiyo (she was also known by her Buddhist name, Zenky-in.) Katamori, or as he was first known, Keinosuke, had an eventful childhood. Though the Takasu domain was small, it had a high level of prestige due to its status as a branch family of the Tokugawa clan (through the gosanke house of Owari). Furthermore, in the history of the Takasu-Matsudaira line, there were daimyo who had been adopted from senior branches of the Tokugawa clan, such as Mito. Consequently, Katamori was in a very good position to be adopted out to a senior member of the Tokugawa house. This opportunity presented itself in the form of Matsudaira Katataka, the 8th generation lord of the Aizu domain. Yoshitatsu readily approved of the adoption, not only because Katataka was the lord of a more senior house with a distinguished history and lineage, but the fact that Katataka was his birth brother must have also entered into the equation. Consequently, the young Keinosuke was adopted by Katataka, and married Katataka's daughter Toshihime, in 1856. Following his adoption, Keinosuke assumed the name "Katamori," which made use of one of the characters from his adoptive father's name. He was presented to the reigning shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, as well as to Ii Naosuke, four months after his adoption, and at the end of the year was invested with the court title of "Wakasa no Kami", which was traditionally held by the heir to the house of Aizu. Interested to further Katamori's education, Katataka then sent his heir to Aizu, where he was educated in the domain school, Nisshinkan., Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government. Tokyo is in the Kant region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former and the ., The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimy. The period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, a stable population and popular enjoyment of arts and culture. The shogunate was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868, after the fall of Edo., Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. , Under Ii Naosukes guidance, the Tokugawa shogunate navigated past a particularly difficult conflict over the succession to the ailing and childless Tokugawa Iesada. Ii Naosuke managed to coerce the Tokugawa Shogunate to the last brief resurgence of its power and position in Japanese society before the start of the Meiji period. Ii was assassinated in the Sakuradamon incident by a group of 17 Mito and 1 Satsuma samurai on March 24, 1860., The exact activities and conventions undertaken when practicing "kenjutsu" vary from school to school, where the word school here refers to the practice, methods, ethics, and metaphysics of a given tradition, yet commonly include practice of battlefield techniques without an opponent and techniques whereby two practitioners perform "kata" (featuring full contact strikes to the body in some styles and no body contact strikes permitted in others).
Historically, schools incorporated sparring under a variety of conditions, from using solid wooden "bokut" to use of bamboo sword ("shinai") and armor ("bgu"). In modern times sparring in Japanese martial art is more strongly associated with "kendo" and is mainly practiced by students or the police force. Although kendo is common in Japan, it is also practiced in other countries around the world., A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phases. This can be contrasted with the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendar based on the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.367 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year., Niimi Nishiki ( , 1836 -- October 25 , 1863 ) was born in Mito - han ( now Ibaraki Prefecture ) . He was a master of the Shintomunen - ryu swordsmanship style . He was one of the original thirteen members of the Shinsengumi , together with Serizawa Kamo and Kond Isami . He was originally one of the three commanders with Kondo and Serizawa but later he had his rank lowered to vice-commander . Being an important member of the Serizawa faction , he was later forced by Yamanami Keisuke and Hijikata Toshiz to commit seppuku ( suicide ) around October 19 ( by the lunar calendar , the 10th day of the ninth month ) , 1863 . Serizawa and the other members of his group were assassinated about a week later by order of Matsudaira Katamori , the daimyo of the Aizu clan . Although he took the name Niimi Nishiki , his real name remains obscure . He is assumed to be well educated because the name Niimi Nishiki shows a play of pronunciation . There are speculations that he could have been a spy for the Chsh Domain and that he also had close connections with Sonn ji groups in Mito and Tosa Province ., History.
Iwase Province was created during the reign of Empress Gensh. The Yr Ritsuryo established the Iwase Province in 718 through the division of the Michinoku Province (Mutsu Province). It was composed of five districts of Shirakawa (), Iwase (), Aizu (), Asaka () and Shinobu ()., The province occupies the western half of the central part of Fukushima Prefecture; the eastern half is Iwaki Province. More precisely, Date and Adachi Districts in the north belong to Iwashiro and Higashishirakawa and Nishishirakawa Districts in the south belong to Iwaki. The border between the two provinces is the Abukuma River. The former ichinomiya of the province is Isasumi Shrine., In the summer, the Sendai Tanabata Festival, the largest Tanabata festival in Japan, is held. In winter, the trees are decorated with thousands of lights for the Pageant of Starlight (), lasting through most of December., Background.
Though the details of his origin are unclear, he was thought to be the son of a kenjutsu instructor originated from the Sendai domain., The Gregorian calendar is internationally the most widely used civil calendar. It is named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October 1582., The lunar phase or phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated (sunlit) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing positions of the Moon and Sun relative to the Earth. The Moon's rotation is tidally locked by the Earth's gravity, therefore the same lunar surface always faces Earth. This face is variously sunlit depending on the position of the Moon in its orbit. Therefore, the portion of this hemisphere that is visible to an observer on Earth can vary from about 100% (full moon) to 0% (new moon). The lunar terminator is the boundary between the illuminated and darkened hemispheres. Each of the four "intermediate" lunar phases (see below) is roughly seven days (~7.4 days) but this varies slightly due to the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit. Aside from some craters near the lunar poles such as Shoemaker, all parts of the Moon see around 14.77 days of sunlight, followed by 14.77 days of "night". (The side of the Moon facing away from the Earth is sometimes called the "dark side", which is a misnomer., The , also called simply , or even , were the most noble three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan: Owari House of Tokugawa, Kii House of Tokugawa, and Mito House of Tokugawa, all of which were descended from clan founder Tokugawa Ieyasu's three youngest sons, Yoshinao, Yorinobu, and Yorifusa, and were allowed to provide a shogun in case of need. In the Edo period the term "gosanke" could also refer to various other combinations of Tokugawa houses, including (1) the shogunal, Owari and Kii houses and (2) the Owari, Kii, and Suruga houses (all with the court position of "dainagon"). , Background.
Hijikata Toshiz Yoshitoyo was born on May 31, 1835, in present-day Hino, a suburb of Tokyo. He was the youngest of six children, and his father, a well-to-do farmer, died shortly before his birth. Hijikata's mother also died when he was a young boy, and he was therefore raised by his older brother and sister-in-law., The was a Japanese domain located in Mino Province (present-day Kaizu, Gifu). For most of its history, it was ruled by the Takasu-Matsudaira, a branch of the Tokugawa clan of Owari., Subject: niimi nishiki, Relation: place_of_death, Options: (A) aizu (B) asia (C) central (D) edo (E) fukushima prefecture (F) gifu (G) honshu (H) japan (I) kyoto (J) march (K) mino province (L) mito (M) most (N) ocean (O) pacific ocean (P) sea of okhotsk (Q) sendai (R) side (S) tokyo (T) wakasa

SOLUTION:
kyoto