tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: The Heiress and its cast were given more official accolades than the average person can count on their fingers.
Wikipedia page: The Heiress (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Awards and nominations
text: AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White (John Meehan, Harry Horner, and Emile Kuri) Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Edith Head and Gile Steele) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White (John Meehan, Harry Horner, and Emile Kuri) Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Edith Head and Gile Steele) Academy Award for Best Original Score (Aaron Copland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White (John Meehan, Harry Horner, and Emile Kuri) Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Edith Head and Gile Steele) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) AwardsAcademy Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland) Academy Award for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black and White (John Meehan, Harry Horner, and Emile Kuri) Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Edith Head and Gile Steele) Academy Award for Best Original Score (Aaron Copland) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture (Olivia de Havilland) National Board of Review Award for Best Actor (Ralph Richardson) New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (Olivia de Havilland)NominationsAcademy Award for Best Picture
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Eminem has not yet released an autobiography.
Wikipedia page: Eminem (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Books and memoirs
text: The Way I Am was published. Detailing his struggles with poverty, drugs, fame, heartbreak, and depression, it includes stories of his rise to fame, commentary about past controversies and original lyric sheets from "Stan" and "The Real Slim Shady".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is about colonization of the Americas and the Christian diaspora.
Wikipedia page: Death Comes for the Archbishop (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Friends was originally written under the name of Friends like Us and ran for 10 years with characters like Rachel and Ross.
Wikipedia page: Friends (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gary Cooper began his career in the 1930s.
Wikipedia page: Gary Cooper (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Silent films, 1925–28
text: In early 1925, Cooper began his film career in silent pictures such as The Thundering Herd and Wild Horse Mesa with Jack Holt, Riders of the Purple Sage and The Lucky Horseshoe with Tom Mix, and The Trail Rider with Buck Jones.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The character of the Doctor, of Doctor Who, used to have a sibling.
Wikipedia page: Doctor Who (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Characters | The Doctor | Revelations about the Doctor
text: " In "Smith and Jones" (2007), when asked if he had a brother, he replied, "No, not any more." In both "Fear Her" (2006) and "The Doctor's Daughter" (2008), he states that he had, in the past, been a father.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Slipknot had ten members for more than ten years.
Wikipedia page: Slipknot (band) (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After several lineup changes in its early years, the band settled on nine members for more than a decade: Crahan, Jordison, Gray, Craig Jones, Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Chris Fehn, and Jim Root.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: John Alexander Macdonald is the longest serving prime minister in Canadian history.
Wikipedia page: John A. Macdonald (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Macdonald was the first Prime Minister of the new nation, and served 19 years; only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ty Cobb was often known for violent conflicts and was a well known philanthropist.
Wikipedia page: Ty Cobb (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: While he was known for often violent conflicts, he spoke favorably about black players joining the Major Leagues and was a well known philanthropist .
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It is thought that after his death, Muhammad Ali's funerary service was seen by about 1,000,000,000 people.
Wikipedia page: Muhammad Ali (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Death | Memorial
text: Ali's memorial was watched by an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tsar Nicholas II is thought to have accidentally provoked Japanese aggression by buying mining rights in China in the early 1900s.
Wikipedia page: Russo-Japanese War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Japanese government perceived a Russian threat to their plans for expansion into Asia and chose to go to war.
section_header: Summary
text: Since the end of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japan feared Russian encroachment on its plans to create a sphere of influence in Korea and Manchuria.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Battle of Bannockburn came to an end after 2 full days of fighting, which was considered at the time, a long and drawn out battle.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Bannockburn (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Battle | First day of battle
text: Most medieval battles were short-lived, lasting only a few hours, so the Battle of Bannockburn is unusual in that it lasted two days.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Jolson Story was shot in the 1930s but it was set in the future ten years and features lots of singing and romance.
Wikipedia page: The Jolson Story (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Radio adaptation
text: Lux Radio Theatre presented The Jolson Story on February 16, 1948.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film with a few eccentric characters like a custodian math genius called Will Hunting.
Wikipedia page: Good Will Hunting (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: The website's critical consensus reads, "It follows a predictable narrative arc, but Good Will Hunting adds enough quirks to the journey – and is loaded with enough powerful performances – that it remains an entertaining, emotionally rich drama.
section_header: Plot
text: Twenty-year-old Will Hunting (Matt Damon) of South Boston is a self-taught genius, though he works as a janitor at MIT and spends his free time drinking with his friends Chuckie, Billy, and Morgan.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Misanthrope is a criticized play about the flat roles for the insecure actors and became an overnight success.
Wikipedia page: The Misanthrope (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society.
section_header: Summary
text: The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molière's best known work today.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There are phantoms and apparitions in Gulliver's Travels.
Wikipedia page: Gulliver's Travels (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot | Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
text: On Glubbdubdrib, he visits a magician's dwelling and discusses history with the ghosts of historical figures, the most obvious restatement of the "ancients versus moderns" theme in the book.
section_header: Plot | Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
text: The ghosts include Julius Caesar, Brutus, Homer, Aristotle, René Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Good Will Hunting was written by Affleck and Damon.
Wikipedia page: Good Will Hunting (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Written by Affleck and Damon, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston janitor Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tammany Hall was a political organization that helped immigrants rise in American politics for the past 3 centuries into present time.
Wikipedia page: Tammany Hall (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: By the mid-1960s Tammany Hall ceased to exist.
section_header: Summary
text: It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sicily's kingdom was formed as a result of the Byzantine invasion.
Wikipedia page: Sicily (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Norman conquest of southern Italy led to the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which was subsequently ruled by the Hohenstaufen, the Capetian House of Anjou, Spain, and the House of Habsburg.
section_header: Summary
text: Sicily (Italian: Sicilia [siˈtʃiːlja]; Sicilian: Sicilia [sɪˈʃiːlja]) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1960, and are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Michael Clayton was a movie by George Clooney and he played the main character in the movie.
Wikipedia page: Michael Clayton (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Michael Clayton is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy in his feature directorial debut and starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Two Noble Kinsmen is thought to be the final theatrical script Shakespeare contributed to.
Wikipedia page: The Two Noble Kinsmen (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: This play is believed to have been William Shakespeare's final play before he retired to Stratford-Upon-Avon and died three years later.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Harper's Bazaar issued The Turn of the Screw as individual chapters, paying Henry James $900 over the course of a year for rights to his work.
Wikipedia page: The Turn of the Screw (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Publication history
text: The Turn of the Screw was first published in the magazine Collier's Weekly, serialised in 12 instalments (27 January – 16 April 1898).
section_header: Summary
text: The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dubai's economy relies on real estate and construction now.
Wikipedia page: Dubai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Economy
text: Real estate and construction (22.6%), trade (16%), entrepôt (15%) and financial services (11%) are the largest contributors to Dubai's economy.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Quebec had a population of 8,164,361 in 2016, making it the second-most populous province of Canada, after Ontario.
Wikipedia page: Quebec (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics
text: In the 2016 census, Quebec had a population of 8,164,361 living in 3,531,663 of its 3,858,943 total dwellings, a 3.3% change from its 2011 population of 7,903,001.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a spin-off of the orginal Star Wars movies.
Wikipedia page: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Development
text: Rogue One is the first film in the Star Wars anthology series, a series of standalone spin-off films in the Star Wars franchise.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Some brands advertise their brand by not putting a brand on their particular brand of product, thus relying on people's pre-existing knowledge of their brand to aid the advertising of their brand, rather than the brand's brand.
Wikipedia page: Brand (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Branding strategies | "No-brand" branding
text: "No brand" branding may be construed as a type of branding as the product is made conspicuous through the absence of a brand name.
section_header: Branding strategies | "No-brand" branding
text: This no-brand strategy means that little is spent on advertisement or classical marketing and Muji's success is attributed to the word-of-mouth, simple shopping experience and the anti-brand movement.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Boone was killed by his stomach not working well enough.
Wikipedia page: Daniel Boone (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: Daniel Boone died of natural causes (other sources say from acute indigestion) on September 26, 1820, at Nathan Boone's home on Femme Osage Creek, five weeks short of his 86th birthday.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John McGraw was a baseball player and manager who wore a three piece suit as a manager.
Wikipedia page: John McGraw (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: McGraw is widely held to be "the best player to become a great manager" in the history of baseball.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: All of Heinie Manush's brothers played baseball.
Wikipedia page: Heinie Manush (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: All seven boys took up baseball, five of them playing the game professionally.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Zora was an author that that is still honered in her birth town.
Wikipedia page: Zora Neale Hurston (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary career | Posthumous recognition
text: Zora Neale Hurston's hometown of Eatonville, Florida, celebrates her life annually in Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 superhero film, the follow up movie to The Dark Knight, and the 2nd film in Nolan's Batman franchise.
Wikipedia page: The Dark Knight Rises (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the final installment in Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, and the sequel to The Dark Knight (2008).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Georges VI's son called "Georges VII" did succeed to him.
Wikipedia page: George VI (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Alphabet Inc. is a small sector of Google, focused mainly on YouTube operations.
Wikipedia page: Alphabet Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Before it became a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google Inc. was first structured as the owner of Alphabet.
section_header: Summary
text: Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Glaciers can differ in temperature from one another, but one glacier mass is the same temperature throughout.
Wikipedia page: Glacier (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Types | Classification by thermal state
text: Glaciers which are partly cold-based and partly warm-based are known as polythermal.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Che Guevara was born in Santiago, Cuba.
Wikipedia page: Che Guevara (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Ernesto Guevara was born to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa, on 14 June 1928, in Rosario, Argentina.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Germinal is the 13th book in a 20 book series.
Wikipedia page: Germinal (novel) (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Babe Ruth said that as a young child, he had been running the streets and was skipping school.
Wikipedia page: Babe Ruth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: As an adult, Ruth admitted that as a youth he had been running the streets and rarely attending school, as well as drinking beer when his father was not looking.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Grand Budapest Hotel is a horror movie.
Wikipedia page: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson, which explores tragedy, war, fascism, nostalgia, friendship, and loyalty.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Canada is the 7th largest worldwide in the industry of music and broadcasting is regulated by the CRTC.
Wikipedia page: Canada (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture | Music
text: The Canadian music industry is the sixth-largest in the world producing internationally renowned composers, musicians and ensembles.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Craig Alan Biggio played 3 positions during his 17 year tenure with the Red Sox.
Wikipedia page: Craig Biggio (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Craig Alan Biggio (; born December 14, 1965) is an American former second baseman, outfielder and catcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career from 1988 through 2007 for the Houston Astros.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Radbourn was sometimes referred to as "Big Boss" in MLB.
Wikipedia page: Charles Radbourn (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Charles Gardner Radbourn (December 11, 1854 – February 5, 1897), nicknamed "Old Hoss", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Viruses can infect all kinds of life forms except archaea which do not get virses.
Wikipedia page: Virus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eric Clapton did not appear in the Blues Brothers despite being asked because he is one of the greatest guitarist of all time according to Rollingstone who listed him as one of the Top Guitarist of All Time.
Wikipedia page: Eric Clapton (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other media appearances
text: He appeared in Blues Brothers 2000 as one of the Louisiana Gator Boys.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Frick worked in Colorado and New York.
Wikipedia page: Ford Frick (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Near the end of Frick's term as commissioner, he purchased a second home in Broadmoor, Colorado, though he maintained his primary residence in New York.
section_header: Early life
text: After his stint as a baseball player, Frick lived in Colorado Springs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Robin Yount's brother was also a baseball player and played as a pitcher.
Wikipedia page: Robin Yount (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Yount met his wife Michele at Taft High School and they have been married since 1979.Yount's brother Larry was a pitcher and was briefly called up to play in the major leagues.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was filmed in Canada.
Wikipedia page: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Two Towers was financed and distributed by American studio New Line Cinema, but filmed and edited entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand, concurrently with the other two parts of the trilogy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Several films inspired from The Vicar of Wakefield were made.
Wikipedia page: The Vicar of Wakefield (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations
text: Silent film adaptations of the novel were produced in 1910, in 1913, and in 1916.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 2019 film Spider-Man: Far From Home is the first in the series.
Wikipedia page: Spider-Man: Far From Home (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Spider-Man: Far From Home is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
section_header: Summary
text: It is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and the 23rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It has been considered by many literary critics as the second greatest novel ever written.
Wikipedia page: The Great Gatsby (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Many literary critics consider The Great Gatsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The term is found in the texts of different religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Wikipedia page: Nirvana (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Origins
text: Nirvāṇa is a term found in the texts of all major Indian religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Iván Rodríguez played in the Majors for multiple teams.
Wikipedia page: Iván Rodríguez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played for the Texas Rangers (on two different tours, comprising the majority of his career), Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A statue of Rocky running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was permanently installed in 1982.
Wikipedia page: Rocky (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Other media | Rocky Steps
text: "Differing opinions of the statue and its placement led to a relocation to the sidewalk outside the Spectrum Arena, although the statue was temporarily returned to the top of the steps in 1990 for Rocky V, and again in 2006 for the 30th anniversary of the original Rocky (although this time it was placed at the bottom of the steps).
section_header: Other media | Rocky Steps
text: Later that year, it was permanently moved to a spot next to the steps.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Forbidden City got its name from only those at the emperor's behest could come into it or vacate it.
Wikipedia page: Forbidden City (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Name
text: Jin, or "Forbidden", referred to the fact that no one could enter or leave the palace without the emperor's permission.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Italy was not interested in playing in the first World Cup.
Wikipedia page: Italy national football team (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1910–1938: Origins and first two World Cups
text: Italy would also later win the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics with a 2–1 victory in extra time in the gold medal match over Austria on 15 August 1936.After declining to participate in the inaugural World Cup (1930, in Uruguay) the Italy national team won two consecutive editions of the tournament in 1934 and 1938, under the direction of coach Vittorio Pozzo and the performance of Giuseppe Meazza, who is considered one of the best Italian football players of all time by some.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The play by Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, which would later be made into two Hollywood films, was not successful.
Wikipedia page: The Glass Menagerie (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The English epic poem "The Faerie Queene" by Edmund Spenser is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II.
Wikipedia page: The Faerie Queene (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Composition | Dedication
text: The poem is dedicated to Elizabeth I who is represented in the poem as the Faerie Queene Gloriana, as well as the character Belphoebe.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Genoa is the second biggest city in Sicily and the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
Wikipedia page: Genoa (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Genoa ( JEN-oh-ə; Italian: Genova [ˈdʒɛːnova] (listen); Ligurian: Zêna [ˈzeːna]; English, historically, and Latin: Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Turn of the Screw was considered only gothic fiction.
Wikipedia page: The Turn of the Screw (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A structure was used to produce Prometheus Bound.
Wikipedia page: Prometheus Bound (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Performance in the English language
text: The production used a real skene building whose roof was the landing and dance platform for the Chorus of Oceanids.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The development of railways in the 1830s meant the end for stagecoaches and mail coaches when the last rail delivery between Doncaster and Sheffield unfolded on 11 December 1830.
Wikipedia page: Stagecoach (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Decline and evolution
text: The first rail delivery between Liverpool and Manchester took place on 11 November 1830.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Barbara McClintock worked as a reasearcher at Cold Spring Harbor in New York after being offered the job by her friend and former colleague Marcuse Rhoades.
Wikipedia page: Barbara McClintock (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Later years
text: McClintock spent her later years, post Nobel Prize, as a key leader and researcher in the field at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York.
section_header: University of Missouri
text: She accepted a visiting Professorship at Columbia University, where her former Cornell colleague Marcus Rhoades was a professor.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pedro Martinez was nicknamed "El Duque" and he never won a World Series.
Wikipedia page: Pedro Martinez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Boston Red Sox | 2000–2004
text: He pitched effectively in the playoffs, contributing to the team's first World Series win in 86 years.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The eating establishments inside of the One World Trade Center don't subscribe to a hokey naming convention where they all have 'one' in their title.
Wikipedia page: One World Trade Center (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Current building (2013–present) | Architecture and design | Layout
text: There are three eating venues at the top of the building: a café (called One Café), a bar and "small plates" grill (One Mix), and a fine dining restaurant (One Dining).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Indira Ghandi International Airport never had any accidents.
Wikipedia page: Indira Gandhi International Airport (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Accidents and Incidents
text: 1970A Royal Nepal Airlines Fokker F27-200 (9N-AAR) after a flight from Kathmandu, Nepal was caught in severe thunderstorms with turbulence and downdrafts on final approach to Palam Airport.
section_header: Accidents and Incidents
text: 1973Indian Airlines Flight 440 crashed while on approach to Palam Airport, killing 48 of the 65 passengers and crew on board.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Twenty nine French soldiers took their own lives during The Franco-Prussian War.
Wikipedia page: Franco-Prussian War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Aftermath | Casualties
text: 4,009 were missing and presumed dead; 290 died in accidents and 29 committed suicide.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Miley Cyrus was born in Malan, Tennessee on Novemeber 23, 1992.
Wikipedia page: Miley Cyrus (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1992–2002: Early life and career beginnings
text: Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Leticia (Tish) Jean Finley and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Gang of Four was made up of 4 Chinese Commie officers and were convicted of a few illegal activities.
Wikipedia page: Gang of Four (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Gang of Four (simplified Chinese: 四人帮; traditional Chinese: 四人幫; pinyin: Sì rén bāng) was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Julian passed from a hemorrhage caused by a spear wound.
Wikipedia page: Julian (emperor) (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Persian campaign | Death
text: On the third day a major hemorrhage occurred and the emperor died during the night.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The country of Iceland is considered one of the worst countries for women's quality of life.
Wikipedia page: Iceland (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture
text: As in other Nordic countries, equality between the sexes is very high; Iceland is consistently ranked among the top three countries in the world for women to live in.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mississippi is a thriller movie about a fire breaking out in a rural town in Mississippi and the fire watch has to put out the fires and evacuate people before they are all burnt to a crisp.
Wikipedia page: Mississippi Burning (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American biographical crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner murder investigation in Mississippi.
section_header: Summary
text: The film stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents assigned to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tommy Lasorda started his career in baseball in the 1960's.
Wikipedia page: Tommy Lasorda (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: Lasorda signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an undrafted free agent in 1945 and began his professional career that season with the Concord Weavers of the Class D North Carolina State League.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Paul Waner always had a strict personal code against baseball while inebriated.
Wikipedia page: Paul Waner (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Major League Baseball career | Pittsburgh Pirates
text: Traynor and Waner went to a bar before playing the Giants on May 19, and when Waner ordered a beer
section_header: Major League Baseball career | Pittsburgh Pirates
text: Famous for his ability to hit while hung over, when Waner gave up drinking in 1938 at management's request, he hit only .280—the
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Aloysius Simmons is not his birth name.
Wikipedia page: Al Simmons (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Aloysius Harry Simmons (May 22, 1902 – May 26, 1956), born Alois Szymanski, was an American professional baseball player.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Zynga, the mobile games company, is headquartered in a building that was occupied formerly by a Japanese gaming company.
Wikipedia page: Zynga (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Owned studios | Headquarters
text: In the fall of 2010, Zynga signed a rental agreement for 270,000 square feet (25,000 m2) of office space at the site of former Sega offices.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Prizzi's honor movie won one Oscar.
Wikipedia page: Prizzi's Honor (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film received seven nominations at the 58th Academy Awards (including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor) with Huston winning for Best Supporting Actress.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jim Thome was liked where ever he traveled to.
Wikipedia page: Jim Thome (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Player profile | Personality
text: Thanks to his gregarious personality, Thome is the rare athlete who played in several cities and was beloved everywhere he went.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Titanic was a passenger liner that did not sink in the Pacific Ocean.
Wikipedia page: Titanic (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Menotti is a two time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Wikipedia page: Gian Carlo Menotti (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: Barber became Menotti's partner in life and in work, with Menotti crafting the libretto for Barber's most famous opera, Vanessa, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958.
section_header: Summary
text: He won a Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Consul (1950) and for The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Albigensian Crusade was a long campaign initiated by a Protestant clergyman.
Wikipedia page: Albigensian Crusade (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229; French: Croisade des albigeois, Occitan: Crosada dels albigeses) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in southern France.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Henry VIII of England became king when he was 17 and created a navy.
Wikipedia page: Henry VIII of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Henry is also known as "the father of the Royal Navy," as he invested heavily in the navy, increasing its size from a few to more than 50 ships, and established the Navy Board.
section_header: Early reign
text: Henry VII died on 21 April 1509, and the 17-year-old Henry succeeded him as king.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The movie Cabaret was a flop with many critics.
Wikipedia page: Cabaret (1972 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release and reaction | Critical reception | Contemporary reviews
text: Roger Ebert gave a positive review in January 1972, saying: "This is no ordinary musical.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mausolus was not, despite his long fascination with their particular architecture and way of doing things, Greek.
Wikipedia page: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Conquest
text: Mausolus, although descended from local people, spoke Greek and admired the Greek way of life and government.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Roosevelt passed while he was sleeping.
Wikipedia page: Theodore Roosevelt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: Between 4:00 and 4:15 the next morning, Roosevelt died in his sleep at Sagamore Hill after a blood clot had detached from a vein and traveled to his lungs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The protagonist of the novel is James Quayle, a lawyer practicing in Nebraska.
Wikipedia page: My Antonia (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Allusions to the novel
text: It is the first novel he ever read, and he expects Iowa to have the same grass "the color of wine stains" that Cather describes of Nebraska.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The story is about a man who falls asleep in the Rocky Mountain range after drinking with magical gnomes.
Wikipedia page: Rip van Winkle (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel is about a man with a boat.
Wikipedia page: To Have and Have Not (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: 1937) about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain out of Key West, Florida.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The show consisted of 6 seasons and a total of 64 episodes.
Wikipedia page: Breaking Bad (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Two strategy games, Age of Empires II and Medieval II, have been inspired by him and many beers have been named for Wallace.
Wikipedia page: William Wallace (History)
Evidence:
section_header: In popular culture | Beer
text: A number of beers are named for Wallace.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Beggar's Opera was written by John Gay and has 69 songs with instrumental aid, composed by Johann Christoph Pepusch, because of the interference of John Rich, who included the instrumental score last minute when John asked him to.
Wikipedia page: The Beggar's Opera (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Origin and analysis
text: For his original production in 1728, Gay intended all the songs to be sung without any accompaniment, adding to the shocking and gritty atmosphere of his conception.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: James Monroe employed the services of dozens of unpaid forever laborers during his time as vice president and believed it was the right of every American to have permanent employees without wages.
Wikipedia page: James Monroe (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Plantations and slavery
text: During the course of his presidency, Monroe remained convinced that slavery was wrong and supported private manumission, but at the same time he insisted that any attempt to promote a precipitous emancipation would cause more problems.
section_header: Slavery
text: " he rhetorically asked. " The evil commenced when we were in our Colonial state, but acts were passed by our Colonial Legislature, prohibiting the importation, of more slaves, into the Colony.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Demosthenes had an income due to working as a guard.
Wikipedia page: Demosthenes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Judy Johnson was a scout for the Philadelphia Athletics following his retirement from baseball as a player.
Wikipedia page: Judy Johnson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | Later life and legacy
text: In 1951, the Philadelphia Athletics hired Johnson as a scout.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Williams passed away in 2014 from assassination.
Wikipedia page: Robin Williams (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: On August 11, 2014, at his home in Paradise Cay, California, Williams committed suicide by hanging.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Square, Inc. has been a private company since 2016.
Wikipedia page: Square, Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has been traded as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange since November 2015 with the ticker symbol SQ.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Macau shares a similar climate as southern China because it is partially surrounded by the South China Sea and Zhuhai city.
Wikipedia page: Macau (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Geography | Climate
text: Macau has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), characteristic of southern China.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A video game set in the future, after the Raiders of the Lost Ark, was released on the NSNES console in 1996.
Wikipedia page: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release | Merchandise
text: The first third of the video game Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, released in 1994 by JVC for Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System, is based entirely on the film.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Anti-masonic party experienced a resurgence in the Bush era because George W. Bush is a Freemason.
Wikipedia page: Anti-Masonic Party (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Conventions and elections
text: When the Whig National Convention nominated Harrison with John Tyler as his running mate, the Anti-Masonic Party did not make an alternate nomination and ceased to function, with most adherents being fully absorbed into the Whigs by 1840.
section_header: Second Anti-Masonic Party
text: A later political organization called the Anti-Masonic Party was active from 1872 until 1888.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The protagonist of The Murders in the Rue Morgue shows up in two more novels.
Wikipedia page: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dupin himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" and "The Purloined Letter".
section_header: Summary
text: It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Yandex is a pharmaceutical company from Portland, Oregon.
Wikipedia page: Yandex (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Yandex N.V. (; Russian: Яндекс, IPA: [ˈjandəks]) is a Russian multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Joe Torre has started an organization dedicated to help children in Africa with his daughter in law.
Wikipedia page: Joe Torre (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Joe Torre Foundation
text: In 2002, Torre and his wife Ali established the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Alphabet inc. was founded by the founders of Facebook.
Wikipedia page: Alphabet Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Investments and acquisitions | Acquisitions
text: Flatiron Health, a startup founded by two former Google employees and backed by Alphabet, Inc., announced that it was to be acquired by health conglomerate Hoffmann-La Roche for $1.8 billion.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Susan Sarandon has won several awards as an American actress.
Wikipedia page: Susan Sarandon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She has received an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards.
section_header: Summary
text: She has also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Client, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for Dead Man Walking.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Felix Mendelssohn first took piano instruction from his mom.
Wikipedia page: Felix Mendelssohn (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Career | Musical education
text: Mendelssohn began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six, and at seven was tutored by Marie Bigot in Paris.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ty Cobb played the ball of bases before touring europe, and making millions as a stockholder of Coca-Cola, then teatering on the brink of divorce again and again thanks to his wife, Charlie. He also broke off things with his son Tyrus Raymond Jr., who was a criminal, but turned gynecologist. He also did tennis.
Wikipedia page: Ty Cobb (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Talmud is a text in the Jewish faith.
Wikipedia page: Talmud (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Talmud (; Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד‎) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The characters in the Decameron were inspired by myths and legends.
Wikipedia page: Decameron (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary sources
text: Moreover, many of the characters actually existed, such as Giotto di Bondone, Guido Cavalcanti, Saladin and King William II of Sicily.
section_header: Literary sources
text: Still other fictional characters are based on real people, such as the Madonna Fiordaliso from tale II, 5, who is derived from a Madonna Flora who lived in the red light district of Naples.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Antony and Cleopatra would of originally been played by a cast of all males.
Wikipedia page: Antony and Cleopatra (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Analysis and criticism | Themes and motifs | Performing gender and crossdressing | The performance of gender
text: This dangerously beautiful woman is difficult for Shakespeare to create because all characters, male or female, were played by men.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Emiliano Zapata was a Mexican Revolutionist.
Wikipedia page: Emiliano Zapata (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Emiliano Zapata Salazar (Spanish pronunciation: [emiˈljano saˈpata]; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jim Bunning played in the major leagues and a politician.
Wikipedia page: Jim Bunning (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician who represented Kentucky in both chambers of the United States Congress.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Otto von Bismarck was advocating for avoiding war in 1988.
Wikipedia page: Otto von Bismarck (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Chancellor of the German Empire | Foreign policies | Avoiding war
text: In February 1888, during a Bulgarian crisis, Bismarck addressed the Reichstag on the dangers of a European war: He warned of the imminent possibility that Germany will have to fight on two fronts; he spoke of the desire for peace; then he set forth the Balkan case for war and demonstrated its futility: "Bulgaria, that little country between the Danube and the Balkans, is far from being an object of adequate importance... for which to plunge Europe from Moscow to the Pyrenees, and from the North Sea to Palermo, into a war whose issue no man can foresee.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Tang Dynasty was succeeded by other dynasties.
Wikipedia page: Tang Dynasty (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mad Max: Fury Road was shot in Eastern Sydney.
Wikipedia page: Mad Max: Fury Road (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: Filming also took place at Potts Hill and Penrith Lakes in Western Sydney.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gustav Mahler's family was from Bohemia.
Wikipedia page: Gustav Mahler (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Early life | Family background
text: Bohemia was then part of the Austrian Empire;  the Mahler family belonged to a German-speaking minority among Bohemians, and was also Jewish.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Philip II of Spain was also King of England for 4 years because of his wife at the time.
Wikipedia page: Philip II of Spain (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Philip II (Spanish: Felipe II; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598) was King of Spain (1556–98), King of Portugal (1580–98, as Philip I, Portuguese: Filipe I), King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554 to 1558).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Vancouver is situated in British Columbia.
Wikipedia page: Vancouver (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Vancouver ( (listen)) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mausoleum at Halicatnassus was not designed by Troy but by the Pythius of Priene.
Wikipedia page: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.
Verdict: SUPPORTS