tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Francis Bebey had the nickname "Baby" because he could not grow facial hair and thus was "baby-faced".
Wikipedia page: Francis Bebey (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Francis Bebey (15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian writer and composer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Paul Dukas was born in the Netherlands.
Wikipedia page: Paul Dukas (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | Early years
text: Dukas was born in Paris, the second son in a Jewish family of three children.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is a classic work of the Chinese literature.
Wikipedia page: The Tale of Genji (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]) is a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The war caused more than eight million deaths.
Wikipedia page: Thirty Years' War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It resulted in the deaths of over 8 million people, including 20% of the German population, making it one of the most destructive conflicts in human history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The British Museum includes over 100,000 of Egyptian antiquities, the Parthenon Marbles, a plastered human skull from Jericho and the Tasmanian Ashes.
Wikipedia page: British Museum (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Departments | Department of Prints and Drawings
text: Key highlights of the collections include: Nimrud:  Nineveh: Wider collection:Plastered human skull from Jericho, a very early form of portraiture, Palestine, (7000–6000 BC) Tell Brak Head, one of the oldest portrait busts from the Middle East, north east Syria, (3500–3300 BC) Uruk Trough, one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture from the Middle East, southern Iraq, (3300–3000 BC) Statue of Idrimi from the ancient city of Alalakh, southern Turkey, (1600 BC) A fine collection of Urartian bronzes, which now form the core of the Anatolian collection, eastern Turkey, (9th–6th centuries BC) Tablet of Shamash, depicting the sun-god Shamash, from Sippar, Iraq, (early 9th century BC) Two large Assyrian stelae from Kurkh, southern Turkey, (850 BC) Shebna Inscription from Siloam near Jerusalem, Israel, (7th century BC) East India House Inscription from Babylon, Iraq, (604–562 BC) Lachish Letters, group of ostraka written in alphabetic Hebrew from Lachish, Israel, (586 BC) Cylinder of Nabonidus, foundation cylinder of King Nabonidus, Sippar, Iraq, (555–540 BC) The famous Oxus Treasure, the largest ancient Persian hoard of gold artefacts, (550–330 BC) The Punic-Libyan Inscription from the Mausoleum of Ateban, Dougga, Tunisia, (146 BC) Amran Tablets found near Sana'a, Yemen, (1st century BC) Two limestone ossuaries from caves in Jerusalem, (1st century AD) The Department of Prints and Drawings holds the national collection of Western prints and drawings.
section_header: Controversies | Artefacts taken from other countries
text: Nevertheless, it has returned items such as the Tasmanian Ashes after a 20-year-long battle with Australia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Faust is an old German folktale, in which a man trades his soul for knowledge and magic.
Wikipedia page: Faust (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary of the story
text: After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world.
section_header: Summary of the story
text: He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well, Helena has to solve many challenges before her husband will marry her.
Wikipedia page: All's Well That Ends Well (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: Helena appears and explains the ring swap, announcing that she has fulfilled Bertram's challenge; Bertram, impressed by all she has done to win him, swears his love to her.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ken Griffey Jr. was tried to make himself unalive, despite being very good at baseball, even as a young man, because his patriarch was sub-standard.
Wikipedia page: Ken Griffey Jr. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Suicide attempt
text: Griffey Jr. cited arguments with his father, Ken Griffey Sr., depression, and anger as reasons for his attempted suicide.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The majority of Monaco is Roman Catholic.
Wikipedia page: Monaco (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Religion | Christian
text: According to Monaco 2012 International Religious Freedom Report, Roman Catholics are Monaco's largest religious group, followed by Protestant Christians.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Calcium is not ample in the earth.
Wikipedia page: Calcium (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the fifth most abundant element in Earth's crust and the third most abundant metal, after iron and aluminium.
section_header: Summary
text: Calcium is the most abundant metal and the fifth-most abundant element in the human body.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Earl Weaver was a Missourian.
Wikipedia page: Earl Weaver (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: After playing for Beaumont High School in his hometown, St. Louis, Missouri, the 17-year-old Weaver was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1948 as a second baseman.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Maroon 5 started out as Overexposed.
Wikipedia page: Maroon 5 (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Original members Levine, Carmichael, bassist Mickey Madden, and drummer Ryan Dusick first came together as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There is more than 4 movies of Silas Marner.
Wikipedia page: Silas Marner (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations
text: At least five film adaptations of Silas Marner were released during the silent film era, including the following: Silas Marner (Thanhouser Film Corporation, USA; 31 March 1911) with Frank Hall Crane in the title role.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film Phantom Thread is about a man whom loves to sculpt taking a woman as his primary inspiration for his medium of art.
Wikipedia page: Phantom Thread (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Their relationship develops, and she moves in with him, becoming his model, muse, and lover.
section_header: Summary
text: Set in 1950s London, it stars Day-Lewis as an haute couture dressmaker who takes a young waitress, played by Krieps as his muse.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kelly was sometimes referred to as "Big Money".
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.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The attempt to reinstate AEthelred the Unready's character has been done by various people.
Wikipedia page: AEthelred the Unready (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: Chief among the rehabilitators has been Simon Keynes, who has often argued that our poor impression of Æthelred is almost entirely based upon after-the-fact accounts of, and later accretions to, the narrative of events during Æthelred's long and complex reign.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Faust is about a man that exchange his spirit for intelligence and enjoyment.
Wikipedia page: Faust (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary adaptations | Goethe's Faust
text: Frustrated with learning and the limits to his knowledge, power, and enjoyment of life, he attracts the attention of the Devil (represented by Mephistopheles), who makes a bet with Faust that he will be able to satisfy him; a notion that Faust is incredibly reluctant towards, as he believes this happy zenith will never come.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: There is not a love story in Part I of the manga Naruto.
Wikipedia page: Naruto (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Characters
text: He found it difficult to write about romance, but emphasized it more in Part II of the manga, beginning with volume 28.
section_header: Production | Conclusion
text: When Hinata first appeared, Kishimoto thought of expanding romantic plotlines.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Quinton Tarantino likes the beginning of Inglourious Basterds more than any other part of a movie that he's ever made.
Wikipedia page: Inglourious Basterds (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Development
text: Tarantino has said that the film's opening scene, in which Landa interrogates the French dairy farmer, is his "favourite thing" he's "ever written".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Larry MacPhail was part of the Normandy Invasion was a member of the US Navy.
Wikipedia page: Larry MacPhail (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: During World War I, he served as an artillery captain in France and Belgium.
section_header: Entry into baseball
text: MacPhail resigned as president of the Dodgers on September 23, 1942, to accept a commission in the United States Army.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: "The Song of Solomon" is a television series on Hulu about a love story in the Hebrew bible.
Wikipedia page: Song of Solomon (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Canonisation and interpretation | Christianity
text: The literal subject of the Song of Songs is love and sexual longing between a man and a woman, and it has little (or nothing) to say about the relationship of God and man; in order to find such a meaning it was necessary to resort to allegory, treating the love that the Song celebrates as an analogy for the love between God and Church.
section_header: Summary
text: Šîr Hašîrîm, Greek and Ancient Greek: Ἆισμα Ἀισμάτων, romanized: Âsma Āsmátōn; Latin: Canticum Canticōrum), is one of the megillot (scrolls) found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or "Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: King Kelly was a baseball player and of Irish descent.
Wikipedia page: King Kelly (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: and his wife Catharine, both Irish immigrants.
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.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pink Floyd was founded by 4 guys.
Wikipedia page: Pink Floyd (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Brandenburg Gate was built on the orders of king Fredrick William II.
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: SUPPORTS
Claim: Separate Tables is set in the Southern coastline of Britain.
Wikipedia page: Separate Tables (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American baseball player Bobby Doerr is retired.
Wikipedia page: Bobby Doerr (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After he retired as a player, Doerr served as a scout and a coach; he worked with Carl Yastrzemski before his Triple Crown season.
section_header: Summary
text: He was the last living person who played in the major leagues in the 1930s, and was the oldest of only three living people who made their MLB debut before U.S. involvement in World War II (the other two being Chuck Stevens and Fred Caligiuri).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Puyi became emperor at the age of 5 years and 10 months in December 1905.
Wikipedia page: Puyi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)
text: Chosen by Empress Dowager Cixi, Puyi became emperor at the age of 2 years and 10 months in December 1908 after the Guangxu Emperor died on 14 November.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mr. Chips' wife in the novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips was disliked by his students.
Wikipedia page: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: Katherine charms the Brookfield teachers and headmaster, and quickly wins the favour of Brookfield's pupils.
section_header: Plot summary
text: His views broaden, and his pedagogical manner loosens, after he marries Katherine, a young woman whom he meets on holiday in the Lake District.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Foxconn workers often commit suicide.
Wikipedia page: Foxconn (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversies | Suicides
text: Suicides among Foxconn workers have attracted the media's attention.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Paul McCartney's response to his friend and band mate's death was, in his eyes, misconstrued.
Wikipedia page: Paul McCartney (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal relationships | Beatles | John Lennon | Reaction to Lennon's murder
text: When you put that in print it says, 'McCartney in London today when asked for a comment on his dead friend said, "It's a drag".'
section_header: Personal relationships | Beatles | John Lennon | Reaction to Lennon's murder
text: It seemed a very flippant comment to make." He described his first exchange with Ono after the murder, and his last conversation with Lennon: I talked to Yoko the day after he was killed, and the first thing she said was, "John was really fond of you.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sauk leader, Black Hawk didn't back down in the Black Hawk War and died rather than give into the militia.
Wikipedia page: Black Hawk War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Black Hawk and other leaders escaped, but later surrendered and were imprisoned for a year.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of the top 10 venerated sites in Sikhism.
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.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Council of Trent is a response to the Protestant Reformation by the Catholic Church and another similar council would not be called for 300 years.
Wikipedia page: Council of Trent (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
section_header: Summary
text: Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bobby Doerr did not ever play for the New York Yankees.
Wikipedia page: Bobby Doerr (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Boston Red Sox (1937–1951).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope Pius XII was born in Austria.
Wikipedia page: Pope Pius XII (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy (the "Black Nobility").
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: For the 1959 film Ben-Hur there were over 8,000 sketches for the costumes and 100 wardrobe fabricators to produce the pieces.
Wikipedia page: Ben-Hur (1959 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Principal photography
text: The MGM Art Department produced more than 15,000 sketches and drawings of costumes, sets, props, and other items needed for the film (8,000 alone for the costumes); photostatted each item; and cross-referenced and catalogued them for use by the production design team and fabricators.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A Bell for Adano is  a film about a military major who is put in control of the town Adano.
Wikipedia page: A Bell for Adano (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is placed in charge of the fictional town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Blackkklansman has no relevance to modern day.
Wikipedia page: BlacKkKlansman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: The website's critical consensus reads, "BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events—and brings out some of Spike Lee's hardest-hitting work in decades along the way.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Diana died with her driver and her companion in a car accident in 1997.
Wikipedia page: Diana, Princess of Wales (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: The crash also resulted in the deaths of her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver, Henri Paul, who was the acting security manager of the Hôtel Ritz Paris.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Twenty Years After displays the childhood happenings of the British Queen.
Wikipedia page: Twenty Years After (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos
section_header: Synopsis | Finale
text: At the end of the novel, the first Fronde comes to an end and Mazarin, Queen Anne, and Louis XIV enter Paris.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Moai originally had big white eyes.
Wikipedia page: Moai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Description | Characteristics | Eyes
text: In 1979, Sergio Rapu Haoa and a team of archaeologists discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets were designed to hold coral eyes with either black obsidian or red scoria pupils.
section_header: Description | Characteristics | Eyes
text: The discovery was made by collecting and reassembling broken fragments of white coral that were found at the various sites.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Songs of Innocence was originally a group of music by various artists.
Wikipedia page: Songs of Innocence (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The bridge is supported by 4 main cables.
Wikipedia page: Brooklyn Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Description | Cables
text: The Brooklyn Bridge is supported by four main cables, which descend from the tops of the suspension towers and help support the deck.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Valentin Alkan took organ lessons.
Wikipedia page: Valentin Alkan (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Prodigy (1819–1831)
text: Alkan nonetheless continued his studies and in 1831 enrolled in the organ classes of François Benoist, from whom he may have learnt to appreciate the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, of whom Benoist was then one of the few French advocates.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Photoelectric effect is the emission of 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: REFUTES
Claim: Houstonian American singer Beyoncé was in the group Destiny's Child until 2006.
Wikipedia page: Beyoncé (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( bee-YON-say; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress and filmmaker.
section_header: Summary
text: Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2006, she released her second solo album, B'Day, which contained her first US number-one solo single "Irreplaceable", and "Beautiful Liar", which topped the charts in most countries.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Burnside's fiance ditched him at the wedding ceremony when he served in the Civil War, and he later became a high-ranking politician
Wikipedia page: Ambrose Burnside (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Biz Mackey's grandchild was a football player.
Wikipedia page: Biz Mackey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Life after baseball
text: Mackey's grandson Riley Odoms played 12 seasons for the NFL's Denver Broncos.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Gautama Buddha taught for around 60 years.
Wikipedia page: Gautama Buddha (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He taught for around 45 years and built a large following, both monastic and lay.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: George Sisler has never had a part of any extremely famous literary works.
Wikipedia page: George Sisler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Later life and legacy
text: When asked after the pennant winning game how he felt when his son beat his current team, the Dodgers, George replied, "I felt awful and terrific at the same time." A passage in The Old Man and the Sea refers to Dick Sisler's long home run drives.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One Direction, often shortened to 1D, an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London, propelled a renewed enthusiasm in boy groups of singers with their five award-winning albums and four world tours.
Wikipedia page: One Direction (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Image
text: And what could be better than one cute boy, if not five?" One Direction have been described as sparking a resurgence in the interest in boy bands, and as forming part of a new "British Invasion" in the United States.
section_header: Summary
text: Propelled to global success by social media, One Direction's five albums, Up All Night (2011) , Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015), topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Best Song Ever", "Story of My Life" and "Drag Me Down".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: L.A Confidential is a piece of literature.
Wikipedia page: L.A. Confidential (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by James Ellroy, and the third of his L.A. Quartet series.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mirren has thirteen siblings.
Wikipedia page: Helen Mirren (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Kathleen was a working-class Englishwoman from West Ham, East London, the 13th of 14 children born to a butcher whose own father had been the butcher to Queen Victoria.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Gautama Buddha was from a privileged family and then gave up his previous life of luxury.
Wikipedia page: Gautama Buddha (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Buddha was born into an aristocratic family, in the Shakya clan but eventually renounced lay life.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: William Faulkner's Light in August is, unlike most of his fiction, set in New England.
Wikipedia page: Light in August (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Clark Calvin Griffith was a rookie in 1891.
Wikipedia page: Clark Griffith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He began his MLB playing career with the St. Louis Browns (1891), Boston Reds (1891), and Chicago Colts/Orphans (1893–1900).
section_header: Summary
text: Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955), nicknamed "The Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager and team owner.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The series A Song of Ice and Fire finished in 2019, twenty years after George R. R. Martin had started it.
Wikipedia page: A Song of Ice and Fire (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Inspiration and writing | Writing process
text: However, with A Song of Ice and Fire series evolving into the biggest and most ambitious story he has ever attempted writing, he still has two more books to finish as of 2020.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Leaning Tower of Pisa designer was Francisco Lindor, a French architect.
Wikipedia page: Leaning Tower of Pisa (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Architect
text: For many years, the design was attributed to Guglielmo and Bonanno Pisano, a well-known 12th-century resident artist of Pisa, known for his bronze casting, particularly in the Pisa Duomo.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Original critical reception of the book was mixed, and complimented the power of the writing while questioning the emotional and factual content.
Wikipedia page: Wuthering Heights (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical response | Early reviews (1847–1848)
text: Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment.
section_header: Critical response | Early reviews (1847–1848)
text: "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine wrote "This novel contains undoubtedly powerful writing, and yet it seems to be thrown away.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Leon Trotsky got hitched while he was in the slammer.
Wikipedia page: Leon Trotsky (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early political activities and life (1896–1917) | First marriage and Siberian exile (1899–1902)
text: While in the prison in Moscow, in the summer of 1899, Trotsky married Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (1872–1938), a fellow Marxist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's original title was "Women Who Hate Men" in Portuguese.
Wikipedia page: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception and awards
text: The book's original Swedish title was Men
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One of the Carpenters' hits was a song that had played in the background of a TV advertisement.
Wikipedia page: The Carpenters (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | As the Carpenters | Close to You
text: "We've Only Just Begun", written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Thirty Years' War was mainly in Northern Europe.
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: REFUTES
Claim: The 2nd Boer war was fought between the English and German settlers in what is now South Africa.
Wikipedia page: Second Boer War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's life was ended by an assassin.
Wikipedia page: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Death
text: While Tchaikovsky's death has traditionally been attributed to cholera from drinking unboiled water at a local restaurant, there has been much speculation that his death was suicide.
section_header: Life | Death
text: We do not know how Tchaikovsky died.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bill Klem was in 9 World Series starting with the All-Star Game in 1933.
Wikipedia page: Bill Klem (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | MLB career
text: He worked a record 18 World Series: 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1940.
section_header: Summary
text: He worked 18 World Series, which is a major league record.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Edgar Martínez did go to college.
Wikipedia page: Edgar Martínez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He attended the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, studying business administration.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Treasure Island does not take place in England.
Wikipedia page: Treasure Island (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: An old sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on the Bristol Channel, in England.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Willie Mays' mother and father married in 1929 and were married for 58 years before his mother passed.
Wikipedia page: Willie Mays (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His parents never married and separated when Mays was three.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hannah and Her Sisters was a successful masterpiece from Woody Allen.
Wikipedia page: Hannah and Her Sisters (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hannah and Her Sisters was, for a long time, Allen's biggest box office hit (forgoing adjustment for inflation), with a North American gross of US$40 million.
section_header: Summary
text: It is often considered one of Allen's major works, with critics continuing to praise its writing and ensemble cast.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Novel "Cry, the Beloved Country," was inspired by a family who survived the Holocaust.
Wikipedia page: Cry, the Beloved Country (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Main themes
text: Cry, the Beloved Country is a social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: James VI and I, King of Scotland, then England and Ireland, pressed parliament to go to war with Spain over religion.
Wikipedia page: James VI and I (History)
Evidence:
section_header: King and Parliament | Spanish match
text: The policy of the Spanish match, as it was called, was also attractive to James as a way to maintain peace with Spain and avoid the additional costs of a war.
section_header: Summary
text: He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) that devastated much of Central Europe.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Leaning Tower of Pisa does not have many steps.
Wikipedia page: Leaning Tower of Pisa (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The tower has 296 or 294 steps; the seventh floor has two fewer steps on the north-facing staircase.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ken Griffey Jr. was born in Pittsburgh and lived there for 7 years before moving to a different state.
Wikipedia page: Ken Griffey Jr. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Griffey was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, on November 21, 1969. (He shares a birthday with another Donora native and Hall-of-Famer, Stan Musial.) His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father, Ken Griffey Sr., played for the Cincinnati Reds, when Ken Jr. was six years old.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film  performed well financially.
Wikipedia page: Babe (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film was both a box office and critical success, grossing $254 million worldwide and earning seven Oscar nominations, including a win for Best Visual Effects.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Redgrave announced her respiratory system was not fully functioning like it should be.
Wikipedia page: Vanessa Redgrave (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: In September 2015, she revealed that her lungs are only working at 30 per cent capacity due to emphysema caused by years of smoking.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Alhambra was populated by warriors and crafts people in the 10th century.
Wikipedia page: Alhambra (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The castle was then largely ignored until the eleventh century, when its ruins were renovated and rebuilt by Samuel ibn Naghrela, vizier to the emir Badis ben Habus of the Zirid Dynasty of Al Andalus, in an attempt to preserve the small Jewish settlement also located on the natural plateau, Sabikah Hill.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Stephen Crane's story "The Open Boat" ends with the captain tangled in a fishing net and drowning.
Wikipedia page: The Open Boat (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: After three of the men safely reach the shore and are met by a group of rescuers, they find Billie dead, his body washed up on the beach.
section_header: Plot summary
text: As they begin the long swim to the beach, Billie the oiler, the strongest of the four, swims ahead of the others; the captain advances towards the shore while still holding onto the boat, and the cook uses a surviving oar.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It was one of the top earning films of 2013.
Wikipedia page: Gravity (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film became the eighth highest-grossing film of 2013 with a worldwide gross of over $723 million, against a production budget of around $100 million.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hoagy Carmichael was one of six children.
Wikipedia page: Hoagy Carmichael (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: Hoagy had two younger sisters, Georgia and Joanne.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Michael Welch was the 3rd catcher to have three hundred career wins.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Welch (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was the third pitcher to accumulate 300 career victories.
section_header: Summary
text: Michael Francis Welch (July 4, 1859 – July 30, 1941), nicknamed "Smiling Mickey", was a Major League Baseball pitcher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Beyoncé, a former member of the music group Destiny's Child, released her first solo album on her 25th birthday.
Wikipedia page: Beyoncé (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1981–1996: Early life
text: Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born in Houston, Texas, to Celestine “Tina” Knowles (née Beyonce), a hairdresser and salon owner, and Mathew Knowles, a Xerox sales manager.
section_header: Life and career | 2006–2007: B'Day
text: Beyoncé's second solo album B'Day was released on September 4, 2006, in the US, to coincide with her twenty-fifth birthday.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Katy Perry signed a recording contract with MGM records in 2007.
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: REFUTES
Claim: Toronto is one of the most diverse city in the world since more than half of persons living there are minorities.
Wikipedia page: Toronto (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants.
section_header: Demographics | Population
text: While Miami's foreign-born population has traditionally consisted primarily of Cubans and other Latin Americans, no single nationality or culture dominates Toronto's immigrant population, placing it among the most diverse cities in the world.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Silas Marner  is a weaver.
Wikipedia page: Silas Marner (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in Northern England.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson was shot in battle but survived by pulling the musket ball out and sealing it with gunpowder.
Wikipedia page: Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was fatally shot during his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Greek comedy play The Clouds by Aristophanes helped lead to the execution of Socrates.
Wikipedia page: The Clouds (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play also, however, remains notorious for its caricature of Socrates and is mentioned in Plato's Apology as a contributor to the philosopher's trial and execution.
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: Shakira has been nicknamed the Queen of Colombia.
Wikipedia page: Shakira (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Born and raised in Barranquilla, Shakira has been referred to as the Queen of Latin Music and is noted for her versatility in music.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club plays in the White Hart Lane Stadium.
Wikipedia page: Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Stadia/playing grounds | Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
text: In October 2008, the club announced a plan to build a new stadium immediately to the north of the existing White Hart Lane stadium, with the southern half of the new stadium's pitch overlapping the northern part of the Lane.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Germany has the 2nd most amount of people in Europe and the most in Europe's Union.
Wikipedia page: Germany (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With 83 million inhabitants of its 16 constituent states, it is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, as well as the most populous member state of the European Union.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Lepanto was a  1571 military victory for the Holy League against Ottoman warships, with over four hundred naval vessels in all.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Lepanto (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was the largest naval battle in Western history since classical antiquity, involving more than 400 warships.
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pinterest is used by over 200,000,000 people.
Wikipedia page: Pinterest (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Usage
text: The official figure from Pinterest was announced as 150 million monthly active users in October 2016 - 70 million in the U.S. and 80 million outside the U.S. - rising to 175 million monthly active users in April 2017 and 250 million in September 2018.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film Inglourious Basterds did not have on its soundtrack "Under Pressure."
Wikipedia page: Inglourious Basterds (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Music
text: The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including Spaghetti Western and R&B. Prominent in the latter part of the film is David Bowie's theme from the 1982 film Cat People.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dukas was French.
Wikipedia page: Paul Dukas (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | Early years
text: Dukas was born in Paris, the second son in a Jewish family of three children.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mays was sometimes referred to in MLB as "Willie Hay".
Wikipedia page: Willie Mays (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Willie Howard Mays Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former professional baseball center fielder, who spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel Pride and Prejudice was adapted into a film in 2005 and the book has sold over 20 million copies.
Wikipedia page: Pride and Prejudice (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice is the most recent film adaptation that closely represents the book.
section_header: Summary
text: Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Puyi was known as Henry and was the last 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.
section_header: Names and titles
text: Puyi is also known to have used an English given name, "Henry", which he chose from a list of English kings given to him by his English-language teacher, Scotsman Reginald Johnston, after Puyi asked for an English name.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: British Museum is the second museum to be open to public in the world.
Wikipedia page: British Museum (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was the first public national museum in the world.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Meiji Restoration was an dishonorable event that restored practical imperial rule
Wikipedia page: Meiji Restoration (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: 明治維新, Hepburn: Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御一新, Goisshin), and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sweden's principal export was silver
Wikipedia page: Sweden (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | The Kingdom of Sweden
text: The main exports from Sweden were iron and copper.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The book makes allusions to real historical pirates such as Blackbeard and Calico Jack.
Wikipedia page: Treasure Island (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Historical allusions | Real pirates and piracy
text: Historian Luis Junco suggests that Treasure Island is in fact a marriage of the story of the murder of Captain George Glas on board the Earl of Sandwich in 1765 and the taking of the ship Walrus off the island of La Graciosa near Tenerife.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film Gravity stars Sandra Bullock and was produced in the UK and won six BAFTAs.
Wikipedia page: Gravity (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and attempt to return to Earth.
section_header: Summary
text: Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited and produced the film.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: President Richard Nixon was impeached and forced out of the Oval Office before he could resign.
Wikipedia page: Richard Nixon (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Presidency (1969–1974) | Reelection, Watergate scandal, and resignation | Resignation
text: In light of his loss of political support and the near-certainty that he would be impeached and removed from office, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening.
section_header: Summary
text: On August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office—the only time an American president has done so.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Naruto TV adaptation was transmitted in Europe during the 1990s.
Wikipedia page: Naruto (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The manga was adapted into an anime television series produced by Pierrot and Aniplex, which broadcast 220 episodes in Japan from 2002 to 2007; the English adaptation of the series aired on Cartoon Network and YTV from 2005 to 2009.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Council of Trent lasted 18 years.
Wikipedia page: Council of Trent (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard was not written about any one specific individual.
Wikipedia page: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Genre
text: The poem is not a conventional part of the Classical genre of Theocritan elegy, because it does not mourn an individual.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The BlacKkKlansman movie was released along with two other movies.
Wikipedia page: BlacKkKlansman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: BlacKkKlansman premiered on May 14, 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix.
section_header: Reception | Box office
text: In the United States and Canada, BlacKkKlansman was released alongside Slender Man and The Meg, and was projected to gross around $10 million from 1,512 theaters in its opening weekend.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: This play prominently features a fictional play inside it.
Wikipedia page: The Tempest (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In Act IV, a wedding masque serves as a play-within-the play, and contributes spectacle, allegory, and elevated language.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In the film, The Apartment, there are characters who commit adultery, suicide, play mimes that argue, and entertain themselves with a well-known pursuit of cards.









card game.
Wikipedia page: The Apartment (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production
text: Another element of the plot was based on the experience of one of Diamond's friends, who returned home after breaking up with his girlfriend to find that she had committed suicide in his bed.
section_header: Reception
text: Others took issue with the film's controversial depictions of infidelity and adultery, with critic Hollis Alpert of the Saturday Review dismissing it as "a dirty fairy tale".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Maroon 5 actually consists of 8 members in the band.
Wikipedia page: Maroon 5 (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 2013–2016: V, return of Carmichael and new lineup
text: Despite the name, Maroon 5 has now with seven members of the new lineup.
section_header: Band members
text: Current members  Adam Levine – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1994–present), lead guitar (1994–2001) Jesse Carmichael – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1994–2012, 2014–present) James Valentine – lead guitar, backing vocals (2001–present) Matt Flynn – drums (2006–present; touring member 2004–2006) PJ Morton – keyboards,
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kurt Vonnegut wrote Cat's Cradle before he earned his master's from the school that had rejected him previously.
Wikipedia page: Cat's Cradle (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After turning down his original thesis in 1947, the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his master's degree in anthropology in 1971 for Cat's Cradle.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: One Direction is a six man troupe that is now four because one member left in 2016.
Wikipedia page: One Direction (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The group is composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson; former member Zayn Malik departed from the group in 2015.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cooper's father died from a bad motorcycle accident.
Wikipedia page: Bradley Cooper (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: The couple reportedly split in June 2019.Two years after the death of his father from lung cancer in 2011, he relocated to Los Angeles with his mother.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A Song of Ice and Fire author, George R. R. Martin wrote Fire & Blood, an entire history of popular House Targaryen, in an attempt to reclaim fans after the disastrous reception of the final season of the television adaptation.
Wikipedia page: A Song of Ice and Fire (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Derived works | Fire & Blood
text: The first volume was released on November 20, 2018.
section_header: Derived works | Television series
text: The eighth and final season premiered on April 14, 2019.
Verdict: REFUTES