tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Rudyard Kipling's novel, Kim, is about a boy who learns life lessons under a street vendor's tutelage.
Wikipedia page: Kim (novel) (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: Throughout his years at school, Kim remains in contact with the holy man he has come to love.
section_header: Plot summary
text: He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, a Pashtun horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: George Harold Sisler, famous player of baseball and talent scout, has several fields named after him that are utilized primarily by children.
Wikipedia page: George Sisler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Later life and legacy
text: The fields were later taken over by the local Little League teams, and are still in use.
section_header: Later life and legacy
text: Tarpon Springs, Florida honored George by naming the former spring training home of the St. Louis Browns "Sisler Field".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: George R. R. Martin published the first volume of the novel, A Song of Ice and Fire  in the early 2000's.
Wikipedia page: A Song of Ice and Fire (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sharing the same first name as his father, King Kelly came to be known for his baseball career.
Wikipedia page: King Kelly (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Michael Joseph "King" Kelly (December 31, 1857 – November 8, 1894), also commonly known as "$10,000 Kelly", was an American outfielder, catcher, and manager in various professional American baseball leagues including the National League, International Association, Players' League, and the American Association.
section_header: Early life
text: Kelly was born in Troy, New York  to Michael Kelly Sr.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hadrian  was a Roman emperor and tried to unify the diverse people.
Wikipedia page: Hadrian (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate peoples.
section_header: Summary
text: Hadrian (; Latin: Caesar Traianus Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Israel has the second highest quality of life in the Middle East after the United Arab Emirates.
Wikipedia page: Israel (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has the highest standard of living in the Middle East, and ranks among the world's top countries by percentage of citizens with military training, percentage of citizens holding a tertiary education degree, research and development spending by GDP percentage, women's safety, life expectancy, innovativeness, and happiness.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Thatcher passed from Parkinson's disease.
Wikipedia page: Margaret Thatcher (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Later life | Death and funeral: 2013
text: Baroness Thatcher died on 8 April 2013, at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The structure was given a different name in the 1915.
Wikipedia page: Brooklyn Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Israel only has one  large international  airport and 5,715 buses on scheduled routes.
Wikipedia page: Israel (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Economy | Transportation
text: Israel is served by two international airports, Ben Gurion Airport, the country's main hub for international air travel near Tel Aviv, and Ramon Airport, which serves the southernmost port city of Eilat.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American actor Bradley Cooper is one of the highest paid actors in the world haaving grossing $11 billion.
Wikipedia page: Bradley Cooper (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Media image and other work
text: He was one of the highest-paid actors in the world from 2013 to 2015, earning $28 million, $46 million, and $41.5 million, respectively, and in 2019, with $57 million.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The comedy by William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor was adapted into a political satire in London in 2012 and a sequel was staged in 2018 in New York City.
Wikipedia page: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations | Plays
text: It performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London (2012) The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa by Alison Carey, adapted the play as a modern political satire, blending new dialogue with Shakespeare's text.
section_header: Summary
text: The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Deng Xiaoping passed away before his 93rd birthday from alzheimer's disease.
Wikipedia page: Deng Xiaoping (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death and reaction
text: Deng died on 19 February 1997, aged 92 from a lung infection and Parkinson's disease.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Redgrave was involved in politics during her lifetime.
Wikipedia page: Vanessa Redgrave (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Political activism
text: In 1961, Vanessa Redgrave was an active member of the Committee of 100 and its working group.
section_header: Political activism
text: She ran for parliament several times as a party member but never received more than a few hundred votes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: This landmark was built on the site of a former city gate.
Wikipedia page: Brandenburg Gate (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Russian and former Soviet politician Mikhail Gorbachev was concerned with power becoming too concentrated by the 1970s.
Wikipedia page: Mikhail Gorbachev (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Rise in the Communist Party | Heading the Stavropol Region: 1970–1977
text: As regional leader, Gorbachev initially attributed economic and other failures to "the inefficiency and incompetence of cadres, flaws in management structure or gaps in legislation", but eventually concluded that they were caused by an excessive centralization of decision making in Moscow.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Diana had two sons with her ex-husband and passed away in 1997.
Wikipedia page: Diana, Princess of Wales (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The couple had two sons, the princes William and Harry, who were then second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.
section_header: Death | Tribute, funeral, and burial
text: Her coffin, draped with the royal flag, was brought to London from Paris by Prince Charles and Diana's two sisters on 31 August 1997.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ken Griffey Jr. was nicked named "the Kid" to set him apart from all the other Jr.'s  in baseball.
Wikipedia page: Ken Griffey Jr. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: George Kenneth Griffey Jr. (born November 21, 1969) nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Director of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, J. A. Bayona, consulted with Steven Spielberg on many scenes.
Wikipedia page: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: Bayona said that making the film was the biggest challenge of his life.
section_header: Summary
text: Directed by J. A. Bayona, it is the second installment of the planned Jurassic World trilogy, and the fifth overall installment of the Jurassic Park film series.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The combination of Quarks doesn't lead to the formation of any other particle.
Wikipedia page: Quark (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Instacart is an online service to purchase groceries and mail pick-up.
Wikipedia page: Instacart (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada with headquarters in San Francisco.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Some of the dragons in Game of Thrones were inspired by the anatomy of Bald Eagles.
Wikipedia page: Game of Thrones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Visual effects
text: The muscle and wing movements of the adolescent dragons in seasons four and five were based largely on those of a chicken.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One Direction released an aftershave called Good Direction.
Wikipedia page: One Direction (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Endorsements
text: One Direction's debut fragrance, Our Moment, launched at Harrods in London and on their website in 2013.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the film Ben-Hur, Judah survives his ship going down.
Wikipedia page: Ben-Hur (1959 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Arrius' galley is rammed and sunk, but Judah unchains the other rowers and rescues Arrius.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Puyi was the first Emperor of China.
Wikipedia page: Puyi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last Emperor of China as the twelfth and final Emperor of the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The bridge's suspension towers are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement.
Wikipedia page: Brooklyn Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Description | Towers
text: They are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Lady Jane Grey was the final person executed within the Tower of London in 1554, although public executions continued on the Tower Green and Tower Hill for hundreds of years.
Wikipedia page: Tower of London (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Changing use
text: The last person to be executed at the Tower was German spy Josef Jakobs who was shot on 15 August 1941.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sulfuric acid is mostly used now as a food preservative.
Wikipedia page: Sulfuric acid (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Physical properties | Grades of sulfuric acid
text: Technical grade H2SO4 is impure and often colored, but is suitable for making fertilizer.
section_header: Physical properties | Grades of sulfuric acid
text: Pure grades, such as United States Pharmacopeia (USP) grade, are used for making pharmaceuticals and dyestuffs.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Tower of London  is an indiscernible importance in England's antiquity.
Wikipedia page: Tower of London (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Tower of London has played a prominent role in English history.
section_header: Changing use
text: As there was no standing army before 1661, the importance of the royal armoury at the Tower of London was that it provided a professional basis for procuring supplies and equipment in times of war.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kid Nichols was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1906, and is famous for being the oldest pitcher to join the 300 win club.
Wikipedia page: Kid Nichols (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is famous for being the youngest pitcher to join the 300 win club.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lady Di was born a commoner.
Wikipedia page: Diana, Princess of Wales (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Diana was born into the British nobility and grew up close to the royal family on their Sandringham estate.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Slaughter was notorious for his slow jog on 1st base walks.
Wikipedia page: Enos Slaughter (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Major leagues
text: Slaughter was known for his hustle, especially for running hard to first base on walks, a habit later imitated by Pete Rose and David Eckstein.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 adventure epic war film that uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway.
Wikipedia page: The Bridge on the River Kwai (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 adventure epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Roger Connor had hit the most amount of home runs until the Great Bambino out did him.
Wikipedia page: Roger Connor (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was the player whom Babe Ruth succeeded as the all-time home run champion.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Gautama Buddha was born in Myanmar.
Wikipedia page: Gautama Buddha (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Birth and early life
text: The Buddhist tradition regards Lumbini, in present-day Nepal to be the birthplace of the Buddha.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Beyoncé owns a company that she named after a road she used to reside on.
Wikipedia page: Beyoncé (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Business and ventures
text: Parkwood Entertainment is named after a street in Houston, Texas where Beyoncé once lived.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The moniker for the structure located in Delhi comes from Sanskrit words for blood and wall.
Wikipedia page: Red Fort (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Etymology
text: , Lal was derived from Hindustani language meaning "Red" and Qalàh derived from Persian word meaning "Fortress".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Robert Duvall is related to General R Grant and has been married several times.
Wikipedia page: Robert Duvall (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His mother was a relative of  U.S. Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and a member of the Lee Family of Virginia, while his father was a descendant of settler Mareen Duvall.
section_header: Personal life
text: His second wife was Gail Youngs, to whom he was married from 1982 to 1986.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: As Good as It Gets earned $314 million worldwide and is ranked 140th on Empire magazine's "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" list.
Wikipedia page: As Good as It Gets (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release | Box office
text: As Good as It Gets was a box office hit, opening at number three at the box office (behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies) with $12.6 million, and eventually earning over $148 million domestically and $314 million worldwide.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Cantos is a long not completed poem.
Wikipedia page: The Cantos (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Quarks, a type of elementary particle, come in six flavors and for each there is an antiparticle.
Wikipedia page: Quark (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
section_header: Summary
text: For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties (such as the electric charge) have equal magnitude but opposite sign.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film Apocalypse Now, Lance drops acid while the rest of the patrol boat crew is busy.
Wikipedia page: Apocalypse Now (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: As the crew read letters from home, Lance activates a smoke grenade while under the influence of LSD, attracting the attention of an unseen enemy, and Mr. Clean is killed.
section_header: Cast
text: Sam Bottoms as Gunner's mate 3rd Class Lance B. Johnson, a former professional surfer from Orange County, California.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Open Boat is based on a true story.
Wikipedia page: The Open Boat (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Black Hawk War ended badly for the Native Americans and ended with them forced to sell their lands.
Wikipedia page: Black Hawk War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Aftermath | Treaties and removals
text: The tribe was compelled to sell their remaining land west of the Mississippi in a treaty held in Chicago in September 1833.
section_header: Summary
text: The war gave impetus to the U.S. policy of Indian removal, in which Native American tribes were pressured to sell their lands and move west of the Mississippi River to reside.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Massenet wrote less than 10 operas.
Wikipedia page: Jules Massenet (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lord of the Flies was loved from the first time its author presented it to a publisher.
Wikipedia page: Lord of the Flies (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Background
text: It had been rejected by many publishers before Charles Monteith at London based publisher Faber & Faber picked up the manuscript.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Cantos is a very long complete poem with 117 sections and is considered to be a easy and fun read.
Wikipedia page: The Cantos (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Pink Floyd received an award for their hit single, The Wall.
Wikipedia page: Pink Floyd (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: In 1981 audio engineer James Guthrie won the Grammy Award for "Best Engineered Non-Classical Album" for The Wall, and Roger Waters won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for "Best Original Song Written for a Film" in 1983 for "Another Brick in the Wall" from The Wall film.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: L.A. Confidential received many positive reviews after the pilot was picked up as a running series.
Wikipedia page: L.A. Confidential (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: In other media | Television
text: However, the pilot was not picked up as a running series.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Cantos is an ardent and demanding read.
Wikipedia page: The Cantos (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is a book-length work, widely considered to be an intense and challenging read.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Spain is the biggest country in Europe.
Wikipedia page: Spain (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second-largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fourth-largest country by area on the European continent.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Alhambra palace is in Europe.
Wikipedia page: Alhambra (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: lit. ' " The Red One"') is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bizet often had esophagus issues and passed away due to heart complications.
Wikipedia page: Georges Bizet (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Illness and death
text: For most of his life, Bizet had suffered from a recurrent throat complaint.
section_header: Life | Illness and death
text: Although the exact cause of death was never settled with certainty, physicians eventually determined the cause as "a cardiac complication of acute articular rheumatism".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Game of Thrones' next season will start on May 29, 2021.
Wikipedia page: Game of Thrones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception and achievements | Critical response
text: A petition on Change.org started by fans requested the final season to be remade with different writers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Queen Elizabeth II's least popular moment was after World War II.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth II (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Public perception and character
text: Her popularity sank to a low point in the 1990s.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Clyde was younger than Bonnie.
Wikipedia page: Bonnie and Clyde (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Clyde Barrow
text: Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born in 1909 into a poor farming family in Ellis County, Texas, southeast of Dallas.
section_header: Bonnie Parker
text: Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas, the second of three children.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Brooklyn Bridge's construction lasted 13 years beginning in 1870.
Wikipedia page: Brooklyn Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: While construction started in 1870, numerous controversies and the novelty of the designed construction process caused the actual construction to be prolonged over thirteen years.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Bells of St. Mary's was the film of the year 1945 with the highest revenues in the United States.
Wikipedia page: The Bells of St. Mary's (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Box office
text: The film was enormously popular, earning receipts of $8 million in North America during its initial run, making it the highest-grossing movie of 1945 in the USA.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The calendar Pope Gregory is famous for was created by other people who were not members of the clergy.
Wikipedia page: Pope Gregory XIII (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Pontificate | The Gregorian calendar
text: Pope Gregory XIII is best known for his commissioning of what is now known as the Gregorian calendar after being initially authored by the doctor/astronomer Aloysius Lilius and with the aid of Jesuit priest/astronomer Christopher Clavius who made the final modifications.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Fountainhead is set in 1922 but was written in 1953.
Wikipedia page: The Fountainhead (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In early 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from the architecture department of the Stanton Institute of Technology because he will not adhere to the school's preference for historical convention in building design.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hugh Jennings had roots from Ireland.
Wikipedia page: Hugh Jennings (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: Born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, Jennings was the son of Irish immigrants, James and Nora, who according to Jack Smiles's biography of Jennings, Ee-yah: The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (page 7), arrived in Pittston in 1851.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kid Nichols was only taken out of an MLB game once in his career.
Wikipedia page: Kid Nichols (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Later life
text: He was said to have been proud of two things: his Hall of Fame selection and the fact that he had never been replaced in a game by a relief pitcher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the single most tilted non-collapsed tower of its height.
Wikipedia page: Leaning Tower of Pisa (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Guinness World Records
text: In June 2010, Guinness World Records certified the Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi, UAE as the "World's Furthest Leaning Man-made Tower"; it has an 18-degree slope, almost five times more than the Pisa Tower, but was deliberately engineered to slant.
section_header: Guinness World Records
text: The Leaning Tower of Wanaka in New Zealand, also deliberately built, leans at 53 degrees to the ground.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Puyi treated his servants very well.
Wikipedia page: Puyi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)
text: Puyi delighted in humiliating his eunuchs, at one point saying that as the "Lord of Ten Thousand Years" it was his right to order a eunuch to eat dirt: "'
section_header: Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)
text: He could only be deferentially advised against ill-treating innocent eunuchs, and if he chose to fire air-gun pellets at them, that was his prerogative.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Katy real last name is not Perry.
Wikipedia page: Katy Perry (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Larry MacPhail started a legal firm in Houston, Texas after he was discharged from the armed forces
Wikipedia page: Larry MacPhail (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His father founded State Savings Bank of Scottville, Michigan, in 1882 as well as twenty other small banks in that state.
section_header: Entry into baseball
text: After his discharge from military service, MacPhail opened a law office in Columbus, Ohio, where he eventually purchased an interest in the Columbus Red Birds, a minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the film A Bell for Adano, the removal of the bell occurs before the Americans get there.
Wikipedia page: A Bell for Adano (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: The title refers to Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700-year-old bell that was taken from the town by the Fascists at the start of the war to be melted down for ammunition.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Paul Dukas was a French baseball player who won the first ever triple crown and was born in Paris.
Wikipedia page: Paul Dukas (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Paul Abraham Dukas (French: [dykas]; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hannah and Her Sisters is a movie that starts at a Turkey feats and concludes at a Turkey feats.
Wikipedia page: Hannah and Her Sisters (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Red Schoendienst spent a total of seventy-four years involved with the MLB.
Wikipedia page: Red Schoendienst (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: At the time of his death, he had worn a Major League uniform for 74 consecutive years as a player, coach, or manager, and had served 67 of his 76 years in baseball with the Cardinals.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, was the only one of his plays to use no instruments  during performances.
Wikipedia page: The Tempest (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Performance history | Music
text: The Tempest has more music than any other Shakespeare play, and has proved more popular as a subject for composers than most of Shakespeare's plays.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: George Sisler was a pitcher for the Boston Braves.
Wikipedia page: George Sisler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball first baseman and player-manager.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The monument is located in the old town square of Frankfurt.
Wikipedia page: Brandenburg Gate (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor; [ˈbʁandn̩bʊɐ̯gɐ ˈtoːɐ̯]) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after the temporary restoration of order during the Batavian Revolution.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Zebulon Pike was an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named, and led three expeditions under authority of President Thomas Jefferson through the new Louisiana Purchase territory,
Wikipedia page: Zebulon Pike (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779 – April 27, 1813) was an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Not to be confused with New York city, the city of Toronto was also named York until 1834.
Wikipedia page: Toronto (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations.
section_header: Summary
text: York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Georges Bizet was a German philosopher.
Wikipedia page: Georges Bizet (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Joe Gordon took a hiatus from playing ball for the New York Yankees to try his hand as a Hollywood actor.
Wikipedia page: Joe Gordon (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Yankees
text: Afterwards, he served in the U.S. Army in 1944–45 during World War II, missing those seasons.
section_header: Yankees
text: He returned to the Yankees in 1946, which turned out to be his most challenging year in major league baseball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Massenet was most known for his book of short stories.
Wikipedia page: Jules Massenet (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French pronunciation: ​[ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor, Igor Stravinsky, managed to first gain notoriety for several ballets, and he continues to push the confines of his music's methods.
Wikipedia page: Igor Stravinsky (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The latter transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design.
section_header: Summary
text: He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the computer hacker tattoos the man who raped her.
Wikipedia page: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: She then uses a tattoo machine to brand him as a rapist.
section_header: Plot
text: Soon afterwards, he is invited to meet Henrik Vanger, the retired CEO of the Vanger Corporation, unaware that Vanger has checked into his personal and professional history; the investigation of Blomkvist's circumstances has been carried out by Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but deeply troubled researcher and computer hacker.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Brooklyn Bridge was built in less than 10 years.
Wikipedia page: Brooklyn Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing across the East River.
section_header: History | Construction | Caissons
text: Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began on January 2, 1870.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play that could have two writers and is a story about Pericles' who knows the answer to a riddle.
Wikipedia page: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: Pericles, the young Prince (ruler) of Tyre in Phoenicia (Lebanon), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter.
section_header: Summary
text: Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mussolini despised philosophers like Nietzsche.
Wikipedia page: Benito Mussolini (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Religious views | Atheism and anti-clericalism
text: Mussolini was an admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tony La Russa served as a professional baseball manager for 33 years.
Wikipedia page: Tony La Russa (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In 33 years as a manager, La Russa guided his teams to three World Series titles, six league championships and twelve division titles.
section_header: Summary
text: La Russa retired after winning the 2011 title and 33 seasons as a major league manager.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hadrian, the Roman emperor, had previous military postings and served a role as an imperial ghostwriter that taught him to support stability and peace through strength.
Wikipedia page: Hadrian (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Public service
text: In his role as imperial ghostwriter, Hadrian took the place of the recently deceased Licinius Sura, Trajan's all-powerful friend and kingmaker.
section_header: Military activities
text: Most of Hadrian's military activities were consistent with his ideology of Empire as a community of mutual interest and support.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Giants never won the play-offs while Welch was on the team.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Welch (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Major league career | Later career
text: ‚ 1892.The Giants won the 1889 World Series, but morale was low on the club.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Pantheon in Rome has never been used for entombment.
Wikipedia page: Pantheon, Rome (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Renaissance
text: Since the Renaissance the Pantheon has been the site of several important burials.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is speculated that this play played a part in the trial and execution of Socrates.
Wikipedia page: The Clouds (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Portrayal of Socrates
text: There is a famous story, as reported for example by Aelian, according to which Socrates cheerfully rose from his seat during the performance of The Clouds and stood in silent answer to the whispers among foreigners in the festival audience: "Who is Socrates?" Plato appears to have considered The Clouds a contributing factor in Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Jabberwocky created nonsense words like "galumphing" and "chortle".
Wikipedia page: Jabberwocky (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Emily Bronte's pseudonym is Ellis Bronner.
Wikipedia page: Wuthering Heights (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis Bell".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Instacart started in Canada.
Wikipedia page: Instacart (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada with headquarters in San Francisco.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Meiji Restoration caused China to industrialize.
Wikipedia page: Meiji Restoration (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Centralization | Industrial growth
text: The Meiji Restoration accelerated the industrialization process in Japan, which led to its rise as a military power by the year 1895, under the slogan of "Enrich the country, strengthen the military" (富国強兵, fukoku kyōhei).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minster of England and she was known for her unwillingness to compromise with politicians and leaders.
Wikipedia page: Margaret Thatcher (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pyrrhus was a Roman king.
Wikipedia page: Pyrrhus of Epirus (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pyrrhus (; Ancient Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrrhos; 319/318–272 BC) was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hull House was started by two brothers to provide a space that the wealthy and poor could interact with each other.
Wikipedia page: Hull House (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sulfuric acid is made up of sulfur and phosphorous.
Wikipedia page: Sulfuric acid (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sulfuric acid (American spelling) or sulphuric acid (English spelling), also known as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen and hydrogen, with molecular formula H2SO4.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: BlacKkKlansman is about a Jewish policeman man being disfavored.
Wikipedia page: BlacKkKlansman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In 1972, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department.
section_header: Plot
text: Assigned to work in the records room, he faces racial discrimination from his coworkers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Boston, Massachusetts has a lot of tourists that help with the economy.
Wikipedia page: Boston (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Economy
text: Tourism also composes a large part of Boston's economy, with 21.2 million domestic and international visitors spending $8.3 billion in 2011.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1946 novel All the King's Men was turned into a movie that stuck closely to the original novel.
Wikipedia page: All the King's Men (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Film and stage adaptations
text: It is noted, however, for deviating significantly from the novel's storyline.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The most tall structure weighs more than 80 tonnes.
Wikipedia page: Moai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tonnes (90.4 short tons).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Tempest's grammar was different on each sheet.
Wikipedia page: The Tempest (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Text
text: At the time, spelling and punctuation was not standardized and will vary from page to page, because each compositor had their individual preferences and styles.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Despite the fact that the Cantos wasn't completed until 1962, most of it's content was released beginning in 1922.
Wikipedia page: The Cantos (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.
section_header: Summary
text: The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Industrialization halted after Emperor Meiji came into power.
Wikipedia page: Meiji Restoration (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Centralization | Industrial growth
text: The Meiji Restoration accelerated the industrialization process in Japan, which led to its rise as a military power by the year 1895, under the slogan of "Enrich the country, strengthen the military" (富国強兵, fukoku kyōhei).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dmitry Dmitriyevich Shostakovich thought that he lost one of his first major pianist competitions in part because the judging panel was mostly Austrian.
Wikipedia page: Dmitry Shostakovich (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Early career
text: He won an "honorable mention" at the First International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1927 and attributed the disappointing result to suffering from appendicitis and the jury being all Polish.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Schindler gives the commandant of Płaszów a sack of gold coins to rescue the Jewish ladies and children who are to be sent to a death camp.
Wikipedia page: Schindler's List (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Brünnlitz, the one carrying the women and girls is accidentally redirected to Auschwitz-Birkenau; Schindler bribes Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, with a bag of diamonds to win their release.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: ROger B. Taney had ancestry from Ireland.
Wikipedia page: Roger B. Taney (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and career
text: Taney's ancestor, Michael Taney
section_header: Early life and career
text: I, had settled in Maryland from England in 1660.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lee MacPhail was an executive for the Mets and Tigers.
Wikipedia page: Lee MacPhail (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: During the First Crusade, people of different ranks and classes banded together to march to the East.
Wikipedia page: First Crusade (History)
Evidence:
section_header: People's Crusade
text: Urban had planned the departure of the first crusade for 15 August 1096, the Feast of the Assumption, but months before this, a number of unexpected armies of peasants and petty nobles set off for Jerusalem on their own, led by a charismatic priest called Peter the Hermit.
section_header: People's Crusade
text: It is commonly believed that Peter's followers purely consisted of a massive group of untrained and illiterate peasants who did not even have any idea where Jerusalem was, but there were also many knights among the peasants, including Walter Sans Avoir, who was lieutenant to Peter and led a separate army.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dennis Eckersley used to have issues with alcohol.
Wikipedia page: Dennis Eckersley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: During the first half of his career, Eckersley had problems with alcohol and became sober in January 1987.An MLB Network documentary about Eckersley, titled "Eck: A Story of Saving", premiered on December 13, 2018.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: X-Men are heroes who were created in a DC comic book.
Wikipedia page: X-Men (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The X-Men are a team of fictional mutant superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Joe Cronin played MLB and was also 2 types of managers in it.
Wikipedia page: Joe Cronin (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Joseph Edward Cronin (October 12, 1906 – September 7, 1984) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop, manager and general manager.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Apartment is a 1970's horror film about an insurance salesman dying in a fire.
Wikipedia page: The Apartment (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday, and Edie Adams.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Judi Dench was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Wikipedia page: Judi Dench (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Dench was born in Heworth, York.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Al-Aqsa Mosque's origin begins with the Crusaders and Jerusalem.
Wikipedia page: Al-Aqsa Mosque (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: ʔælˈmæsdʒɪd ælˈʔɑqsˤɑ] (listen), "the Farthest Mosque"), located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is the third holiest site in Islam.
section_header: Religious significance in Islam | Religious status
text: The Fadhail of Jerusalem inspired Muslims, especially during the Umayyad period, to embellish the sanctity of the city beyond its status in the holy texts.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Judi Dench deeply desires for the Scots to be free and capable of self-determination.
Wikipedia page: Judi Dench (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Political views and social interests
text: Dench was one of 200 celebrities to sign an open letter to the people of Scotland asking them to vote No to independence, published in August 2014, a few weeks before the Scottish referendum.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Photoelectric effect does emit electrons.
Wikipedia page: Photoelectric effect (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons when electromagnetic radiation, such as light, hits a material.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ben-Hur was a remake of a previous silent movie.
Wikipedia page: Ben-Hur (1959 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Edgar Martínez was a professional baseball who played 18 seasons with the Mariners.
Wikipedia page: Edgar Martínez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a designated hitter and third baseman for the Seattle Mariners from 1987 through 2004.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The author is a female.
Wikipedia page: The Tale of Genji (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary context
text: As with most Heian literature, Genji was probably written mostly (or perhaps entirely) in kana (Japanese phonetic script) and not in kanji, because it was written by a woman for a female audience.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand has been translated into Urdu.
Wikipedia page: The Fountainhead (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations | Television
text: The novel was adapted in Urdu for the Pakistan Television Network in the 1970s, under the title Teesra Kinara.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Most of the novel is the story told by housekeeper Nelly Dean to Lockwood.
Wikipedia page: Wuthering Heights (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Point of view
text: Most of the novel is the story told by housekeeper Nelly Dean to Lockwood, though the novel "uses several narrators (in fact, five or six) to place the story in perspective, or in a variety of perspectives".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The war was fought entirely on the basis of religion.
Wikipedia page: Thirty Years' War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Thirty Years' War was a religious war fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Apartment is a drama film created by Stanley Kubrick.
Wikipedia page: The Apartment (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, alongside Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis, Willard Waterman, David White, Hope Holiday, and Edie Adams.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tony La Russa continues to live in his birth city of Ybor City, Florida only moving out of the city when he was in the MLB,
Wikipedia page: Tony La Russa (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Growing up, the La Russa family moved to West Tampa, Florida where Tony played American Legion baseball and PONY League baseball alongside teammate Lou Piniella.
section_header: Early life
text: After graduating from Jefferson High School in Tampa, La Russa was signed by the Kansas City Athletics in June, 1962 as a middle infielder, with a clause to pay for his college education.
Verdict: REFUTES