tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: William Wallace was Irish.
Wikipedia page: William Wallace (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sir William Wallace (Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas, pronounced [ˈɯʎam ˈuəl̪ˠəs̪]; Norman French: William le Waleys; born c. 1270, died 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Claude Debussy's father was sent to prison because he fought for the losing side in a Franco-Prussian War.
Wikipedia page: Claude Debussy (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | Early life
text: Manuel Debussy remained in Paris and joined the forces of the Commune; after its defeat by French government troops in 1871 he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, although he only served one year.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The traitor Benedict Arnold was exiled to London.
Wikipedia page: Benedict Arnold (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death and afterward | Legacy
text: Benedict Arnold's name became synonymous with "traitor" soon after his betrayal became public, and biblical themes were often invoked.
section_header: Summary
text: In the winter of 1782, he and Peggy moved to London, England.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: George Herman Ruth was born in Germany.
Wikipedia page: Babe Ruth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: George Ruth Jr. was born in the house of his maternal grandfather, Pius Schamberger, a German immigrant and trade unionist.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Tokugawa shogunate concluded in 1868 after losing power in the preceeding years.
Wikipedia page: Tokugawa shogunate (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The Tokugawa shogunate came to an official end in 1868 with the resignation of the 15th Tokugawa shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, leading to the "restoration" (王政復古, Ōsei fukko) of imperial rule.
section_header: Summary
text: The Tokugawa shogunate declined during the Bakumatsu ("final act of the shogunate") period from 1853 and was overthrown by supporters of the Imperial Court in the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Scientist Shafrira Goldwasser has performed work in codebreaking.
Wikipedia page: Shafi Goldwasser (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Scientific career
text: Goldwasser's research areas include computational complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Maine became the 23rd state in the United States and has no known explanation of its name.
Wikipedia page: Maine (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Toponymy
text: There is no definitive explanation for the origin of the name "Maine", but the most likely is that early explorers named it after the former province of Maine in France.
section_header: Summary
text: On March 15, 1820, under the Missouri Compromise, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: English actress Emma Watson has worked on a campaign for gender equality.
Wikipedia page: Emma Watson (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Women's rights work
text: That September, an admittedly nervous Watson delivered an address at UN Headquarters in New York City to launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality.
section_header: Summary
text: That same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender equality.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Eichmann was against deporting Jews to extermination camps.
Wikipedia page: Adolf Eichmann (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Second World War | Wannsee Conference
text: Under Eichmann's supervision, large-scale deportations began almost immediately to extermination camps at Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka and elsewhere.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Toy Story 3 was originally to be a crime story.
Wikipedia page: Toy Story 3 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production
text: So a set of Andy's toys and new characters Hee-Hee, and Gladiola are trying to figure out who stole the toys one by one in a whodunit-style murder mystery story.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In 2017, she founded a non-profit organization that helps kids in developing countries.
Wikipedia page: Miley Cyrus (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: That year, she founded the non-profit Happy Hippie Foundation, which focuses on youth homelessness and the LGBT community.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is considered by many to be more than 4500 years old.
Wikipedia page: Bhagavadgita (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Date
text: The Gita is considered by many to be more than 4500 years old.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The company has operations in more than one hundred and seventy countries.
Wikipedia page: IBM (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, claims he was on the first voyages to South America where he arrived at present day Ecuador.
Wikipedia page: Amerigo Vespucci (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Voyages | "Third voyage" (1501–1502)
text: That land would eventually become present-day Brazil.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Goodfellas is set in New York City.
Wikipedia page: Goodfellas (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In 1955, a young Henry Hill becomes enamored of the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Live at the BBC, the first official release of unissued performances in seventeen years, appeared in 1996.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1970–present: After the break-up | 1990s
text: Live at the BBC, the first official release of unissued Beatles performances in seventeen years, appeared in 1994.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ernie Banks did only like baseball.
Wikipedia page: Ernie Banks (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: As a child, Banks was not very interested in baseball, preferring swimming, basketball and football.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eddie Murray was the voice of a not so well behaved donkey in a movie.
Wikipedia page: Eddie Murray (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Eddie Clarence Murray (born February 24, 1956), nicknamed "Steady Eddie", is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman and designated hitter.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Since its founding, A.C. Milan has only missed playing in the highest level of Italian soccer on three occasions / seasons.
Wikipedia page: A.C. Milan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 and 1982–83 seasons, in the top flight of Italian football, known as Serie A
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Incredibles 2 made more money than the first film.
Wikipedia page: Incredibles 2 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Box office
text: On July 1, 2018, the film passed $648 million at the worldwide box office, surpassing the $633 million the original film made in its entire theatrical run.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: FC Barcelona plays their rival team every year and the match has a classic name.
Wikipedia page: FC Barcelona (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid, and matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The tunnel connects England with Spain.
Wikipedia page: Channel Tunnel (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche), also referred to as the Chunnel, is a 50.45-kilometre (31.35 mi) railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France), beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1930s novel Brave New World gets it's name from a line in a play.
Wikipedia page: Brave New World (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Title
text: The title Brave New World derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: FC Bayern Munich has played football in the Bundesliga since the year the league was first made.
Wikipedia page: FC Bayern Munich (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932, the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Juventus F.C. is a Spanish football club.
Wikipedia page: Juventus F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Juventus Football Club (from Latin: iuventūs, "youth"; Italian pronunciation: [juˈvɛntus]), colloquially known as Juventus and Juve (pronounced [ˈjuːve]), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Garibaldi was a large figure in the creation of the Kingdom of Italy and was an impressive military general in his time.
Wikipedia page: Giuseppe Garibaldi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is considered to be one of the greatest generals of modern times and one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John Schuerholz is a Maryland born man who has been involved in two World Series organization.
Wikipedia page: John Schuerholz (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Among the teams he built are the 1985 Royals and 1995 Braves, both World Series champions.
section_header: Personal life
text: Schuerholz was born in [Baltimore], the son of John Schuerholz Sr., who played in the Philadelphia Athletics minor league system from 1937 to 1940.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It is considered one of the top 100 shows by some publications.
Wikipedia page: House (TV series) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical reception
text: The Writer's Guild of America West ranked the show as the 74th best-written TV series of all time.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Through Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne mocks 'respectable' writing and serious tone openly.
Wikipedia page: Tristram Shandy (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Techniques and influences | Ridiculing solemnity
text: Sterne was no friend of gravitas, a quality which excited his disgust.
section_header: Techniques and influences | Ridiculing solemnity
text: Among the subjects of such ridicule were some of the opinions contained in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, a book that mentions sermons as the most respectable type of writing, and one that was favoured by the learned.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Sun Also Rises was a film about the Running of the Bulls.
Wikipedia page: The Sun Also Rises (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Coward's plays after the war were more successful than before the war.
Wikipedia page: Noël Coward (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Post-war career
text: Coward's new plays after the war were moderately successful but failed to match the popularity of his pre-war hits.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The wall that the Ming dynasty built is over 5000 miles.
Wikipedia page: Great Wall of China (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the walls built by the Ming dynasty measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1818 sonnet "Ozymandias" is named after an Egyptian pharaoh.
Wikipedia page: Ozymandias (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "Ozymandias" ( oz-ee-MAN-dee-əs) is the title of two related sonnets published in 1818.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The book's antagonist, Okonkwo, is famous for beating a wrestler but he is a lover not a fighter, which can be seen with his wives and children.
Wikipedia page: Things Fall Apart (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot | Part 1
text: The novel's protagonist, Okonkwo, is famous in the villages of Umuofia for being a wrestling champion, defeating a wrestler nicknamed "Amalinze The Cat" (because he never lands on his back).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cab Calloway was a Cuban jazz singer who changed his name from Carlos Cortez in 1934.
Wikipedia page: Cab Calloway (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Phil Niekro played most of his career with the New York Yankees.
Wikipedia page: Phil Niekro (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Philip Henry Niekro (pronounced NEE-kro) (born April 1, 1939), nicknamed "Knucksie", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), 20 of them with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is located between the border of two European countries.
Wikipedia page: Large Hadron Collider (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference and as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the France–Switzerland border near Geneva.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Stan Musial spent more than 20 seasons in the American Major League Baseball.
Wikipedia page: Stan Musial (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941-44 and 1946-63.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Some people have interpreted Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley to be about the death of child.
Wikipedia page: Ode to the West Wind (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Some also believe that the poem was written in response to the loss of his son, William (born to Mary Shelley) in 1819.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Martin Van Buren was the 9th governor of New York.
Wikipedia page: Martin Van Buren (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A founder of the Democratic Party, he had previously served as the ninth governor of New York, the tenth United States secretary of state, and the eighth vice president of the United States.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 7 World Trade Center, that replaced the original World Trade Center, received a silver rating for environmental design.
Wikipedia page: 7 World Trade Center (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The building was the first commercial office building in New York City to receive the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, where it won a gold rating.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The district's city portion is split in four.
Wikipedia page: Washington, D.C. (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Cityscape
text: The District is divided into four quadrants of unequal area: Northwest (NW), Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), and Southwest (SW).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The skybridge of the 41st floor and 42nd floors connects a conference room, am executive dining room and a prayer room.
Wikipedia page: Petronas Towers (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Features | Skybridge
text: Residing on the 41st and 42nd floors, the skybridge connects a conference room, an executive dining room and a prayer room.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Adolf Hitler's mother was Jewish.
Wikipedia page: Adolf Hitler (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Ancestry
text: No Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period, and no record has been produced of Leopold Frankenberger's existence, so historians dismiss the claim that Alois' father was Jewish.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ed Harris started off as a live in-person actor.
Wikipedia page: Ed Harris (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Early plays
text: Harris began his career on the stage.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The story of the book is primarily about Daisy Buchanan.
Wikipedia page: The Great Gatsby (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The story of the book primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Adobe Inc. was named after the pond that was near the creator's hometown.
Wikipedia page: Adobe Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The name of the company, Adobe, comes from Adobe Creek in Los Altos, California, which ran behind Warnock's house.
section_header: History
text: That creek is so named because of the type of clay found there, which alludes to the creative nature of the company's software.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There are 6 main Parasite forms.
Wikipedia page: Parasite (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Evolutionary strategies | Major strategies
text: There are six major parasitic strategies, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism, trophically transmitted parasitism, vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Walter O'Malley is another guy that didn't ever play baseball professionally, but is now a part of the sport's 'history' because he had enough money to buy and sell people like commodities.
Wikipedia page: Walter O'Malley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Walter Francis O'Malley (October 9, 1903 – August 9, 1979) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979.
section_header: Summary
text: In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946–1956,  and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City, Missouri.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bobby Cox won multiple World Series with the Atlanta Braves.
Wikipedia page: Bobby Cox (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Managerial career | Second stint with the Atlanta Braves (1986–2010) | 1995–96
text: In 1995, the Atlanta Braves won Cox's only World Series championship, over the Cleveland Indians.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Radbourn was called "Young Buck."
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: Guests are not allowed to ingest inebriating fluids in Epcot.
Wikipedia page: Epcot (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Areas | World Showcase | Alcohol policy
text: Unlike Magic Kingdom, which up until 2012 did not serve alcohol and now only serves it in all table service locations, most stores and restaurants at Epcot, especially in the World Showcase, serve and/or sell a variety of alcoholic beverages including specialty drinks, craft beers, wines, and spirits reflective of the respective countries.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Larry Doby was injured during WWII and unable to return to playing professional baseball.
Wikipedia page: Larry Doby (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His military service complete, Doby returned to baseball in 1946, and along with teammate Monte Irvin, helped the Eagles win the Negro League World Series.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Philip Glass is universally praised.
Wikipedia page: Philip Glass (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Criticism
text: Justin Davidson of New York magazine has criticized Glass, saying, "Glass never had a good idea he didn't flog to death: He repeats the haunting scale 30 mind-numbing times, until it's long past time to go home." Richard Schickel of Time criticized Glass's score for The Hours, saying, "This ultimately proves insufficient to lend meaning to their lives or profundity to a grim and uninvolving film, for which Philip Glass unwittingly provides the perfect score—tuneless, oppressive, droning, painfully self-important.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Elizabeth crowned as Queen of England after she conspiratorially has Mary executed.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In 1558, Catholic Queen Mary dies from a cancerous tumour in her uterus.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: After 14 long seasons together, Crawford and Cobb established a friendship.
Wikipedia page: Ty Cobb (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Rivalry with Sam Crawford
text: Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb were teammates for parts of thirteen seasons.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives about servicemen coming back after serving in the military was one of the early films to be entered into the Library of Congress.
Wikipedia page: The Best Years of Our Lives (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film is about three United States servicemen re-adjusting to civilian life after coming home from World War II.
section_header: Summary
text: The Best Years of Our Lives (aka Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Quakers is a religious group that came about after a war in the mid 1600s and came to America in 1656.
Wikipedia page: Quakers (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Quakers, also called Friends, are a historically Christian denomination known formally as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
section_header: History | Immigration into North America
text: The persecution of Quakers in North America began in July 1656 when English Quaker missionaries Mary Fisher and Ann Austin
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The use of flowing water to generate electricity is the main source of energy of North Korea.
Wikipedia page: North Korea (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Economy | Infrastructure
text: Coal accounts for 70% of primary energy production, followed by hydroelectric power with 17%.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Walter O'Malley is responsible for bringing major league baseball to California.
Wikipedia page: Walter O'Malley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Death and legacy
text: He made a tremendous change in the game, opening up the West Coast to Major League Baseball." When asked how he wanted to be remembered, O'Malley said, "for planting a tree.
section_header: Dodgers | Move to Los Angeles
text: " Following the 1957 Major League Baseball season, he moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles, and New York's Dodgers fans felt betrayed.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, earned stellar reviews from online rating websites.
Wikipedia page: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: On Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 77% based on 275 reviews, with an average score of 7.13/10.
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: " On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating to reviews, the film has a score of 65 out of 100, based on 41 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Rodriguez was sometimes referred to as "Pudge".
Wikipedia page: Iván Rodríguez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Iván Rodríguez Torres (born November 27, 1971), nicknamed "Pudge", is a former Major League Baseball catcher.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 2017 film Dunkirk won in three categories at the Academy Awards.
Wikipedia page: Dunkirk (2017 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: At the 90th Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director (Nolan's first Oscar nomination for directing); it went on to win for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Daubechies would do math in her head to fall asleep as a child.
Wikipedia page: Ingrid Daubechies (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: She remembers that when she was a little girl and could not sleep, she did not count numbers, as you would expect from a child, but started to multiply numbers by two from memory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Flo Rida was born and raised in Florida.
Wikipedia page: Flo Rida (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 17, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida (, floh RY-də), is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Carol City, Florida.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Defiant Ones was more successful abroad than in America.
Wikipedia page: The Defiant Ones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception
text: The film earned rentals of $2.5 million in the United States and Canada but did not perform as well overseas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Philip Glass's first music composition for a movie was in 1981.
Wikipedia page: Philip Glass (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Music for film
text: Glass has composed many film scores, starting with the orchestral score for Koyaanisqatsi (1982), and continuing with two biopics, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985, resulting in the String Quartet No. 3) and Kundun (1997) about the Dalai Lama, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Victoria famously hated dogs and only allowed cats in her court as companions.
Wikipedia page: Queen Victoria (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Later years | Death and succession
text: Her favourite pet Pomeranian, Turi, was laid upon her deathbed as a last request.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bruce Lee died of a pulmonary embolism that took his life very quickly.
Wikipedia page: Bruce Lee (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: Suffering from seizures and headaches, he was immediately rushed to Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, where doctors diagnosed cerebral edema.
section_header: Death
text: The headache and cerebral edema that occurred in his first collapse were later repeated on the day of his death.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ford Frick's career was kick started by his capacity to record people's suffering more efficiently than his competitors.
Wikipedia page: Ford Frick (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: The recognition from the flood helped Frick get a position with the New York American in 1922.
section_header: Early life
text: He was able to file his story a day earlier than other reporters.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Martel's lands had been split up among his sons a year before his passing.
Wikipedia page: Charles Martel (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death and transition in rule
text: His territories had been divided among his adult sons a year earlier: to Carloman he gave Austrasia, Alemannia, and Thuringia, and to Pippin the Younger Neustria, Burgundy, Provence, and Metz and Trier in the "Mosel duchy"; Grifo was given several lands throughout the kingdom, but at a later date, just before Charles died.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John Peter Zenger was a Swiss artist and columnist that ended up printing The New York Weekly Journal.
Wikipedia page: John Peter Zenger (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German printer and journalist in New York City.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eastwood was not raised with any particular denomination of Christianity.
Wikipedia page: Clint Eastwood (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Spiritual beliefs
text: In 1973, Eastwood told the film critic Gene Siskel, "No, I don't believe in God." Eastwood has said that he finds spirituality in nature (as suggested by his Western, Pale Rider, 1985), stating that "I was born during the Depression
section_header: Personal life | Spiritual beliefs
text: and I was brought up with no specific church.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hayward was a model before she became an actress.
Wikipedia page: Susan Hayward (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After working as a fashion model, Hayward traveled to Hollywood in 1937 to audition for the role of Scarlett O'Hara.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: After his professional baseball career ended he spent his days quietly with his family and worked at a baseball museum.
Wikipedia page: Jimmie Foxx (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Post-baseball career
text: In the early 1960s he lived in Galesburg, Illinois where he was reduced to working as a greeter at a locally owned steak house.
section_header: Post-baseball career
text: He took them to the playoffs where they lost in the first round 2 games to 1 against the Rockford Peaches.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jimmy Collins did die of a heart attack.
Wikipedia page: Jimmy Collins (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Collins died of pneumonia on March 6, 1943 at the age of 73.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ruth Benedict stopped teaching after the war and died in 1945.
Wikipedia page: Ruth Benedict (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Career in anthropology | Post-war
text: She continued her teaching after the war, advancing to the rank of full professor only two months before her death,  in New York on September 17, 1948.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American singer Tim McGraw has siblings.
Wikipedia page: Tim McGraw (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Through his father, McGraw has two half-brothers, Mark and Matthew, and a half-sister named Cari.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Friends is focused on six friends who live in Brooklyn.
Wikipedia page: Friends (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live in Manhattan, New York City.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Hollow Men is a poem that is about a journey.
Wikipedia page: The Hollow Men (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Journey of the character
text: Eliot's characters often undergo a journey – either physical or spiritual or both.
section_header: Summary
text: "The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by T. S. Eliot.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kigensetsu was critized after World War II for being to close to the "emperor system."
Wikipedia page: Emperor Jimmu (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Modern veneration
text: In 1873, a holiday called Kigensetsu was established on February 11.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Chan's handling of the SARS outbreak attracted severe remarks.
Wikipedia page: Margaret Chan (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Director of Health in Hong Kong, 1994–2003
text: Her performance during the SARS outbreak, which ultimately led to 299 deaths, attracted harsh criticism from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and many SARS victims and their relatives.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: "Young Goodman Brown" is about Puritan New England in Salem.
Wikipedia page: Young Goodman Brown (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical response and impact
text: Modern scholars and critics generally view the short story as an allegorical tale written to expose the contradictions in place concerning Puritan beliefs and societies.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Th 1951 book The Ballad of the Sad Café was adapted into a film.
Wikipedia page: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations
text: Albee's play was adapted by screenwriter Michael Hirst into a 1991 film of the same name starring Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Siblings Thelma & Louise go on a road trip to find their long lost family member.
Wikipedia page: Thelma & Louise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Best friends Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) set out for a weekend vacation at a fishing cabin in the mountains to take a break from their dreary lives in Arkansas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is a 1960s British film.
Wikipedia page: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charles V carried several titles during his life.
Wikipedia page: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Titles
text: Charles V accumulated a large number of titles due to his vast inheritance of Burgundian, Spanish, and Austrian realms.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American aviator and activist Charles Lindbergh did the first solo transatlantic flight and he was an officer in the U.S. Army.
Wikipedia page: Charles Lindbergh (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Although not the first non-stop transatlantic flight, this was the first solo transatlantic flight, the first transatlantic flight between two major city hubs, and the longest transatlantic flight by almost 2,000 miles, thus it is widely considered a turning point in the development of aviation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The app facebook started off called "Hot or Not."
Wikipedia page: Mark Zuckerberg (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Software developer | College years
text: Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter" and according to the votes there would be a ranking.
section_header: Career | Facebook
text: Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Pedro Martinez is from the Dominican Republic and has struck out more players in less innings besides one person.
Wikipedia page: Pedro Martinez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Martínez grew up in the Dominican Republic in the Santo Domingo suburb of Manoguayabo.
section_header: Summary
text: He reached the 3,000 strikeout mark in fewer innings than any pitcher except Randy Johnson, and is the only pitcher to compile over 3,000 career strikeouts with fewer than 3,000 innings pitched; Martínez‘ career strikeout rate of 10.04 per 9 innings trails only Johnson (10.61) among pitchers with over 1,500 innings.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Baidu is a Japanese tech company.
Wikipedia page: Baidu (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Baidu, Inc. (Chinese: 百度; pinyin: Bǎidù, meaning "hundred degrees", anglicized  BY-doo) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Joe Torre is a man that has done many things in the MLB.
Wikipedia page: Joe Torre (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Joseph Paul Torre (; born July 18, 1940) is an American professional baseball executive, serving as a special assistant to the Commissioner since 2020.
section_header: Summary
text: A former player, manager and television color commentator, Torre ranks fifth all-time in MLB history with 2,326 wins as a manager.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Carl Nielsen was from Denmark and has been considered a great composer.
Wikipedia page: Carl Nielsen (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Carl August Nielsen (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈne̝lsn̩]; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Richard Wagner wrote fiction.
Wikipedia page: Richard Wagner (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Early career and marriage (1833–1842)
text: Wagner made a scant living by writing articles and short novelettes such as A pilgrimage to Beethoven, which sketched his growing concept of "music drama", and An end in Paris, where he depicts his own miseries as a German musician in the French metropolis.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The movie Moonstruck is ranked around 90% on movie review websites.
Wikipedia page: Moonstruck (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical and commercial reception
text: The film holds an approval rating of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus reading, "Led by energetic performances from Nicolas Cage and Cher, Moonstruck is an exuberantly funny tribute to love and one of the decade's most appealing comedies.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Boer Wars did happen in South Africa.
Wikipedia page: Boer Wars (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It covers civil wars and wars of aggression and of self-defence both within South Africa and against it.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Barry Larkin played the infield for the Reds in the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
Wikipedia page: Barry Larkin (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds of the Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2004.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Singapore has several official languages.
Wikipedia page: Singapore (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: There are four official languages of Singapore: English, Malay, Chinese, and Tamil; with English being the lingua franca.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A Study in Scarlet is known for introducing the character Sherlock Holmes.
Wikipedia page: A Study in Scarlet (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Foucault's Pendulum is a film about the transgressions of a young women who ends up on the streets and has to sell her hair to feed her daughter.
Wikipedia page: Foucault's Pendulum (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: [il ˈpɛndolo di fuˈko]) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.
section_header: Summary
text: Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bartók was born in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1881 as a child protege able to perform his own works at piano recitals.
Wikipedia page: Béla Bartók (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)
text: By the age of four he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year.
section_header: Music | Early years (1890–1902)
text: Between 1890 and 1894 (nine to 13 years of age) he wrote 31 piano pieces with corresponding opus numbers.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The leaders of the Christian and Muslim 'sides' of the Third Crusade died of a pointy projectile and a pathogen respectively.
Wikipedia page: Third Crusade (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Aftermath
text: Richard returned to England in 1194 and died of a crossbow bolt wound in 1199 at the age of 41.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kim Kardashian was robbed in October of 2016.
Wikipedia page: Kim Kardashian (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Paris robbery
text: On October 25, 2016, Kardashian dropped the lawsuit, prompting more criticism that the robbery was a ploy to generate media attention.
section_header: Personal life | Paris robbery
text: In the video, she is seen using the cell phone that she had reported stolen, and did not have any of the markings she claimed from being bound by her captors, prompting more questions as to whether or not the events were staged.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Wembley Stadium is the biggest sports event center in all of Europe.
Wikipedia page: Wembley Stadium (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With 90,000 seats, it is the largest football stadium in England, the largest stadium in the UK and the second-largest stadium in Europe.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: From the first brick to completion of the project of rebuilding the Bascilica took 84 years.
Wikipedia page: St. Peter's Basilica (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Architecture | Successive plans
text: It was the design of Donato Bramante that was selected, and for which the foundation stone was laid in 1506.
section_header: Architecture | Dome: successive and final designs | Completion
text: Giacomo della Porta and Domenico Fontana brought the dome to completion in 1590, the last year of the reign of Sixtus
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Epcot opened up in 1987.
Wikipedia page: Epcot (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1980s: Opening and operation | Dedication
text: The theme park opened on October 1, 1982.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A stagecoach could cover about 100 kilometres in a day.
Wikipedia page: Stagecoach (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Speed
text: Up until the late 18th Century, a stagecoach traveled at an average speed of about 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h), with the average daily mileage covered being around 60 to 70 miles (97 to 113 km), but with improvements to the roads and the development of steel springs, the speed increased, so that by 1836 the scheduled coach left London at 19:30, travelled through the night (without lights) and arrived in Liverpool at 16:50 the next day, a distance of about 220 miles (350 km), doubling the overall average speed to about 10 miles per hour (16 km/h), including stops to change horses.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Che Guevara was sidelined in getting the military ready for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Wikipedia page: Che Guevara (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and bringing Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba, which preceded the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
section_header: Cuban Revolution | Bay of Pigs, and missile crisis
text: Author Tad Szulc in his explanation of the Cuban victory, assigns Guevara partial credit, stating: "The revolutionaries won because Che Guevara, as the head of the Instruction Department of the Revolutionary Armed Forces in charge of the militia training program, had done so well in preparing 200,000 men and women for war.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Thomas Paine was convicted of very serious offences by the English without even being present for his own trial, because they feared his work would spread the French revolution to their own people.
Wikipedia page: Thomas Paine (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His attacks on Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in England in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Captain Marvel is a Walt Disney production about Captain Marvel.
Wikipedia page: Captain Marvel (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Captain Marvel is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers.
section_header: Production | Development
text: By May 2013, Marvel Studios' writing room had produced a script for a film featuring Ms. Marvel, an alias used by the character Carol Danvers before she took the mantle Captain Marvel.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 2012 film the Life of Pi failed to win a Global Global despite many nominations.
Wikipedia page: Life of Pi (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included the Best Picture – Drama and the Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Henry Beatty has been nominated 16 times for an Academy Awards.
Wikipedia page: Warren Beatty (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Brahms passed away in 1899
Wikipedia page: Johannes Brahms (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kamehameha V ruled the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Wikipedia page: Kamehameha V (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Kamehameha V (Lota Kapuāiwa Kalanimakua Aliʻiōlani Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui; December 11, 1830 – December 11, 1872), reigned as the fifth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1863 to 1872.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Zillow searches can include real estate properties in Canada.
Wikipedia page: Zillow (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: In 2018, Zillow signed a partnership with Century 21 Canada to begin listing Canadian properties on the site, marking the first country outside the United States to be covered by the company.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Walter O'Malley's father used to sell products made out of cotton.
Wikipedia page: Walter O'Malley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: Walter O'Malley was the only child of Edwin Joseph O'Malley (1881–1953), who worked as a cotton goods salesman in the Bronx in 1903.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Watching a young rockabilly star on a musical variety television show prompted Bruce to purchase a guitar.
Wikipedia page: Bruce Springsteen (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | 1964–1972: Early years
text: Inspired, he bought his first guitar for $18.95 at the Western Auto Appliance Store.
section_header: Career | 1964–1972: Early years
text: In 1964, Springsteen saw the Beatles' appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gladiator was not well received by its culture.
Wikipedia page: Gladiator (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Its popularity led to its use in ever more lavish and costly games.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American media personality Kim Kardashian has a phone game, a cosmetic line and a shape wear line.
Wikipedia page: Kim Kardashian (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Focus on social media (2014–present)
text: In June 2014, Kardashian released a mobile game for iPhone and Android called Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.
section_header: Career | Reception to product range
text: In June 2019, Kardashian launched a new range of shape wear called Kimono.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: There are no differences in the film and the book both titled All the President's Men because Alan J. Pakula wrote and directed both.
Wikipedia page: All the President's Men (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Differences from the book
text: Unlike the book, the film covers only the first seven months of the Watergate scandal, from the time of the break-in to Nixon's second inauguration on January 20, 1973.
section_header: Differences from the book
text: The film introduced the catchphrase "follow the money" in relation to the case, which did not appear in the book or any documentation of Watergate.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: An attacker broke the right arm of the original statue of David in the early 1990's.
Wikipedia page: David (Michelangelo) (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Later history
text: Cannata was restrained as he was in the process of damaging the toes of the left foot.
section_header: History | Later history
text: A replica was placed in the Piazza della Signoria in 1910.In 1991 Piero Cannata, an artist who the police described as deranged, attacked the statue with a hammer he had concealed beneath his jacket.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harry Heilmann played professional baseball for 19 years between 1913 and 1932, including 17 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers (1914, 1916–1929) and Cincinnati Reds (1930, 1932) and was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 1952.
Wikipedia page: Harry Heilmann (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Harry Edwin Heilmann (August 3, 1894 – July 9, 1951), nicknamed "Slug", was an American baseball player and radio announcer.
section_header: Summary
text: Heilmann died from lung cancer in July 1951; he was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame six months later in January 1952 after garnering 86.75% of the votes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Naked and the Dead was based partly on real life experiences.
Wikipedia page: The Naked and the Dead (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It depicts the wartime experiences of a platoon, based partially on Mailer's experiences as a cook with the 112th Cavalry Regiment during the Philippines Campaign in World War II.
Verdict: SUPPORTS