tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: The Pacific War was multi-pronged and was fought on land and sea for dominance.
Wikipedia page: War of the Pacific (History)
Evidence:
section_header: War | Land war
text: After the Battle of Angamos, once Chile achieved naval supremacy, the government had to decide where to strike.
section_header: War | Struggle for sea control
text: Chilean warships also had to impose a naval blockade of Peruvian ports and end the smuggling of arms from Panama into Peru via the Pacific.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tina Turner was born in Sweden but immigrated to the U.S. at a young age with her parents.
Wikipedia page: Tina Turner (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eminem was never sued by his family members.
Wikipedia page: Eminem (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Legal issues and controversies
text: In 1999, Eminem's mother sued him for $10 million claiming he was slandering her on The Slim Shady LP.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jurassic Park was filmed on the island of Phuket in Thailand.
Wikipedia page: Jurassic Park (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: After 25 months of pre-production, filming began on August 24, 1992, on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dickey played professional baseball for 2 teams during his career.
Wikipedia page: Bill Dickey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees for 19 seasons.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Purloined Letter is the 3rd released detective tale by writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Wikipedia page: The Purloined Letter (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt".
section_header: Publication history
text: It later was included in the 1845 collection Tales by Edgar A. Poe.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The stage version of this tale has an objectively grim finale.
Wikipedia page: Miss Julie (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: The play ends as she walks through the door with the razor, presumably to commit suicide.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A black hole was intially discovered by Dan Swarnith.
Wikipedia page: Black hole (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was first published by David Finkelstein in 1958.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cruise splits his time between his 3 homes in New York, Oregon and Denmark.
Wikipedia page: Tom Cruise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Relationships and wealth
text: Cruise splits his time between homes in Beverly Hills, California; Telluride, Colorado; Clearwater, Florida; Dulwich, London; and East Grinstead, West Sussex.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Although gas lighting is generally used for camping, most cities in North America and Europe had gaslit streets until the introduction of electricity in the late 1800s.
Wikipedia page: Gaslight (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Decline
text: In the early 20th century, most cities in North America and Europe had gaslit streets.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: 16.67% of Los Angeles population has a job in the culture sector.
Wikipedia page: Los Angeles (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture
text: Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", because one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry and there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any other time in history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ted Simmons was a pitcher.
Wikipedia page: Ted Simmons (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Although he was often overshadowed by his contemporary, Johnny Bench, Simmons is considered one of the best hitting catchers in MLB history.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Franco-Prussian War was started by Prussia.
Wikipedia page: Franco-Prussian War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: According to some historians, Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck deliberately provoked the French into declaring war on Prussia in order to draw four independent southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—into an alliance with the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Springsteen was from the Jersey Shore area.
Wikipedia page: Bruce Springsteen (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A native of the Jersey Shore, he received critical acclaim for his early 1970s albums and attained worldwide fame upon the release of Born to Run in 1975.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Second Bank of the United States was liquidated in 1845 after becoming a major political issue in the 1832 election.
Wikipedia page: Second Bank of the United States (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Failing to secure recharter, the Second Bank of the United States became a private corporation in 1836, and underwent liquidation in 1841.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Golden Gate Bridge cost over half a billion dollars to make.
Wikipedia page: Golden Gate Bridge (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Construction
text: The project cost more than $35 million ($514 million in 2018 dollars), and was completed ahead of schedule and $1.3 million under budget (equivalent to $24.2 million today).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's middle name, Philipp, was given to him in memory of his grandfather.
Wikipedia page: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Garibaldi was from Germany.
Wikipedia page: Giuseppe Garibaldi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( GARR-ib-AWL-dee, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡariˈbaldi] (listen); 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, patriot, and republican.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The first movie adaption of the play, Death of a Salesman was honored with several recognition.
Wikipedia page: Death of a Salesman (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations in other media
text: 1951: Adapted by Stanley Roberts and directed by László Benedek, who won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sparta lost military control because of the results of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Wikipedia page: Sparta (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars, in rivalry with the rising naval power of Athens.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Shafi is a professor of cryptography.
Wikipedia page: Shafi Goldwasser (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She is the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, co-founder and chief scientist of Duality Technologies and the director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley, CA.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: When he was with the Yankees, Mickey Mantle was belittled by jaded New Yorkers for being a hayseed from the state of Oklahoma.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Mantle (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Professional baseball | Major leagues, New York Yankees (1951–1968) | Stardom: 1952–1964 | M&M Boys
text: Nor had the New York press been all that kind to Mantle in his early years with the team: he struck out frequently, was injury-prone, was a "true hick" from Oklahoma, and was perceived as being distinctly inferior to his predecessor in center field, Joe DiMaggio.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Although many similar companies are based in the silicon valley, TripAdisor is based in Seatle, Washington.
Wikipedia page: TripAdvisor (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
section_header: Layoffs and reductions
text: The company also said they would be closing offices in Boston and San Francisco (though the Needham, Massachusetts headquarters is in the Boston metropolitan area).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tina Turner lived with her sisters during WWII.
Wikipedia page: Tina Turner (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harridge was the president in 1931 after he was the AL secretary.
Wikipedia page: Will Harridge (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Baseball career
text: He then became president of the American League in 1931, held that post until his retirement in 1958, and then was named president emeritus.
section_header: Baseball career
text: In 1927, Harridge became the American League secretary.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Iron Heel is a dystopian tale which influenced many other authors, included George Orwell.
Wikipedia page: The Iron Heel (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Influences and effects
text: Orwell himself described London as having made "a very remarkable prophecy of the rise of Fascism", in the book and believed that London's understanding of the primitive had made him a better prophet "than many better-informed and more logical thinkers.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Is a show about a teacher who cooks meth.
Wikipedia page: Breaking Bad (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Cast and characters | Main characters
text: Bryan Cranston as Walter White – a chemistry teacher who, shortly after his 50th birthday, is diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer and turns to making meth to secure his family's finances.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Quebec is surrounded by water on three sides of the country.
Wikipedia page: Quebec (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jane Fonda was taken into arrest as a suspect for a bank fraud.
Wikipedia page: Jane Fonda (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Political activism | Opposition to the Vietnam War | 1970 arrest
text: On November 3, 1970, Fonda was arrested by authorities at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film Judgment at Nuremberg's scenes regarding Nazi death camps downplayed the realities of the situation because of rigid codes regarding on-screen material.
Wikipedia page: Judgment at Nuremberg (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Background
text: Shown in court by prosecuting attorney Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark), the scenes of huge piles of naked corpses laid out in rows and bulldozed into large pits were considered exceptionally graphic for a mainstream film of the time.
section_header: Production | Background
text: The film is notable for its use of courtroom drama to illuminate individual perfidy and moral compromise in times of violent political upheaval; it was the first mainstream drama film not to shy from showing actual footage filmed by American and British soldiers after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ozzie Smith was born in Lexiton, Alabama.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, but his family moved to Watts, Los Angeles, when he was six years old.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Star Wars was created by Poe Dameron.
Wikipedia page: Star Wars (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Star Wars is an American epic space-opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1938 book, The Yearling set a record sales in the year it was released.
Wikipedia page: The Yearling (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Yearling is a novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published in March 1938.
section_header: Summary
text: It was the best-selling novel in America in 1938 and the seventh-best in 1939.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mrs. Warren's Profession is about a former call girl who has a son while she runs a brothel.
Wikipedia page: Mrs. Warren's Profession (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There is a movie based on the Howards End story that was awarded with a Golden Globe.
Wikipedia page: Howards End (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations | Film
text: Thompson won an Academy Award for her performance.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: John Philip Sousa is considered one of the all-time Great Americans, and has a spot in their Hall of Fame to prove it.
Wikipedia page: John Philip Sousa (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Honors
text: He was posthumously enshrined in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1976.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kublai founded the Yuan Dynasty in 1271 whose official color was purple.
Wikipedia page: Kublai Khan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: White, the color of the royal costume of Kublai, was the imperial color of the Yuan dynasty.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Thebes did not make a major impact in Greek history despite being famous city.
Wikipedia page: Thebes, Greece (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It played an important role in Greek myths, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus, Heracles and others.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lou Gehrig was a famous professional baseball player who was able to star in one movie as played a fictional baseball player.
Wikipedia page: Lou Gehrig (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Film and other media
text: Gehrig starred in the 1938 20th Century Fox movie Rawhide, playing himself in his only feature-film appearance.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The members of The Who started the band in 1963.
Wikipedia page: The Who (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The original publication of Oliver Twist took over two years to fully be released.
Wikipedia page: Oliver Twist (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Publications
text: The novel was originally published in monthly instalments in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany, from February 1837 to April 1839.
section_header: Summary
text: Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mail.Ru is a Russian manufacturing company that works for Goldman Sachs.
Wikipedia page: Mail.Ru (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ru) is a Russian internet company.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This book was written by Mark Twain.
Wikipedia page: Elmer Gantry (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that presents aspects of the religious activity of America in fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The movie was written by Robert Zemeckis and is based off a book of the same name by Winston Groom.
Wikipedia page: Forrest Gump (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.
section_header: Production | Script
text: The film is based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lysistrata did not inspire other movies.
Wikipedia page: Lysistrata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Influence and legacy
text: 2003: "A Miami Tail" - American urban movie version
section_header: Influence and legacy
text: 2002 : Francesc Bellmunt directed the Spanish movie "Lisístrata", which screenplay was an adaptation of Ralf Köning comic.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mail.Ru got a $1 Million investment from Jeff Bezos at the beginning.
Wikipedia page: Mail.Ru (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: It received an initial investment of US$1 million from the well-known investor (and fencing champion) James Melcher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Pope wrote this poem in 1702.
Wikipedia page: Essay on Criticism (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Composition
text: The first fragmentary drafts of the work were written in Abberley in 1707.
section_header: Summary
text: An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: New Zealand's comprehensive rail system connects municipalities and statistical areas, earning the country multiple awards in environmental conservation and public transportation.
Wikipedia page: New Zealand (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Economy | Infrastructure
text: Most major cities and towns are linked by bus services, although the private car is the predominant mode of transport.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Booker grew up with his dad.
Wikipedia page: Booker T. Washington (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Nor did he ever know his father, said to be a white man who resided on a neighboring plantation.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The football club was renamed for the sake of the totalitarian authoritarian government during WWII.
Wikipedia page: Inter Milan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Colours and badge
text: In 1929 the black-and-blue jerseys were restored, and after World War II, when the Fascists had fallen from power, the club reverted to their original name.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tommy McCarthy was a pitcher and a great batter.
Wikipedia page: Tommy McCarthy (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: In limited innings and at-bats, he played poorly, batting at a paltry .215 average, and lost all seven of his pitching appearances.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in France and its building has stood at its location since 1889.
Wikipedia page: Moulin Rouge (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The name of this statue references different metals in different languages.
Wikipedia page: The Bronze Horseman (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Bronze Horseman (Russian: Медный всадник, literally "copper horseman") is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Freeman has won more than 3 Obie awards, 2 of them in the film Coriolanus.
Wikipedia page: Morgan Freeman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: For his performances in theatrical productions, he has won three Obie Awards, one of the most prestigious honors for recognizing excellence in theatre.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Julius Caesar created a calendar system with a leap day.
Wikipedia page: Julius Caesar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Dictatorship and assassination | Dictatorship
text: He set the length of the year to 365.25 days by adding an intercalary/leap day at the end of February every fourth year.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: the show returned in 2005.
Wikipedia page: Doctor Who (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Doctor Who finally returned with the episode "Rose" on BBC One on 26 March 2005.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: More travellers pass through LAX than any other airport on western seaboard of the U.S.
Wikipedia page: Los Angeles International Airport (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As the largest and busiest international airport on the U.S. West Coast, LAX is a major international gateway to the United States, and also serves a connection point for passengers traveling internationally.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Of the nine Slipknot band original members, guitarist Shawn Crahan is the only member still actively playing with the band.
Wikipedia page: Slipknot (band) (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After the departure of Jordison, as of December 2013 the only founding member in the current lineup is percussionist Crahan.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Parthian Empire in ancient Iran was on the Silk Road.
Wikipedia page: Parthian Empire (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Parthian Empire (; 247 BC – 224 AD), also known as the Arsacid Empire (), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jones now lives in Canada.
Wikipedia page: Tommy Lee Jones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a city just outside of downtown San Antonio, and speaks fluent Spanish, which he used to good effect in Men in Black.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: France did not win the Battle of Blenheim.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Blenheim (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The follow up was called Polly but wasn't preformed for 50 years.
Wikipedia page: The Beggar's Opera (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Sequel
text: The political satire, however, was even more pointed in Polly than in The Beggar's Opera, with the result that Prime Minister Robert Walpole leaned on the Lord Chamberlain to have it banned, and it was not performed until fifty years later.
section_header: Sequel
text: In 1729, Gay wrote a sequel, Polly, set in the West Indies: Macheath, sentenced to transportation, has escaped and become a pirate, while Mrs Trapes has set up in white-slaving and shanghais Polly to sell her to the wealthy planter Mr Ducat.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Benito Juarez grew up with his uncle.
Wikipedia page: Benito Juarez (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: Shortly afterward, his grandparents died as well, so after that his uncle raised him.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Attack on Pearl Harbor Pearl was a surprise attack.
Wikipedia page: Attack on Pearl Harbor (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Millard Fillmore grew up in a wealthy family.
Wikipedia page: Millard Fillmore (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and career
text: Historian Tyler Anbinder described Fillmore's childhood as "... one of hard work, frequent privation, and virtually no formal schooling".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: William Hurt 's first role as an actor was in his late 40s, after an initial career behind the scenes in technical theater.
Wikipedia page: William Hurt (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He studied at the Juilliard School and began acting on stage in the 1970s.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Expedia is suppose to be relocating it's main office to Seattle.
Wikipedia page: Expedia (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: In 2015, the company announced it would be moving its headquarters to Seattle.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Adele had her first platinum album at the age of 25.
Wikipedia page: Adele (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Her debut album, 19, was released in 2008.
section_header: Summary
text: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins  (; born 5 May 1988) is an English singer-songwriter.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Johnny Bench grew up in Oklahoma and was a catcher.
Wikipedia page: Johnny Bench (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Major League Baseball career | 1960s
text: Born and raised in Oklahoma, Bench is one-eighth Choctaw; he played baseball and basketball and was class valedictorian at Binger-Oney High School in Binger.
section_header: Honors and post-career activities
text: Starting with the 2000 college baseball season, the best collegiate catcher annually receives the Johnny Bench Award.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Walter Johnson was one of the original guys to be inducted to Cooperstown and was one of the "five immortals."
Wikipedia page: Walter Johnson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Baseball Hall of Fame
text: Johnson, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner were known as the "Five Immortals" because they were the first players chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
section_header: Baseball Hall of Fame
text: Johnson was one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Winston Churchill wanted the Board of Trade to create job assistance offices for people who needed work.
Wikipedia page: Winston Churchill (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Asquith government: 1908–1915 | President of the Board of Trade: 1908–1910
text: In May, he proposed the Labour Exchanges Bill which sought to establish over 200 Labour Exchanges through which the unemployed would be assisted in finding employment.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American politician George Hunt Pendleton left politics for a short while after losing an election after running on a platform that included opposing civil rights.
Wikipedia page: George H. Pendleton (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After the war, he opposed the Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
section_header: Summary
text: After Pendleton lost the 1869 Ohio gubernatorial election, he temporarily left politics.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Prince and the Pauper was initially printed outside of the writer's home country of America.
Wikipedia page: The Prince and the Pauper (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.
section_header: Summary
text: The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Code Geass could be described as an anime series.
Wikipedia page: Code Geass (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hepburn: Kōdo Giasu: Hangyaku no Rurūshu), often referred to simply as Code Geass, is a Japanese anime series produced by Sunrise.
section_header: Reception | Accolades
text: At the sixth annual Tokyo Anime Awards held at the 2007 Tokyo International Anime Fair, Code Geass won the best anime television series award.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pete Hill was six feet and one inch tall.
Wikipedia page: Pete Hill (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: The 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 215 pound Hill was considered the most important member of three of the most talented Negro league teams to ever play.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mark Twain dedicated The Prince and the Pauper to his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens.
Wikipedia page: The Prince and the Pauper (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The book bears a dedication to Twain's daughters, Susie and Clara Clemens, and is subtitled "A Tale For Young People of All Ages".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The mother and father of Miley Cyrus were not married until after she came to life.
Wikipedia page: Miley Cyrus (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1992–2002: Early life and career beginnings
text: Her parents married the year following her birth.
section_header: Life and career | 1992–2002: Early life and career beginnings
text: Against the advice of her father's record company, Cyrus' parents secretly married on December 28, 1993, a year after her birth.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ernest Hemingway's book's plot is about a soldier in the French Army.
Wikipedia page: A Farewell to Arms (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ("tenente") in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Garth Brooks was the last child from his parents.
Wikipedia page: Garth Brooks (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: He was the youngest child of Troyal Raymond Brooks Jr. (1931–2010), a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen McElroy Carroll (1929–1999), a 1950s-era country singer of Irish ancestry who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: At the time Paul Revere's Ride was written, most of the Revolutionary War patriots had died.
Wikipedia page: Paul Revere's Ride (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Analysis
text: The phrase "Hardly a man is now alive" was true as one of the last men alive at the time had only recently died.
section_header: Analysis
text: Jonathan Harrington, the young fifer for Lexington's militia during the battles of Lexington and Concord, died at the age of 96 in 1854, a few years before the poem was written.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather was American.
Wikipedia page: Winston Churchill (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Childhood and schooling: 1874–1895
text: His mother, Jennie, was a daughter of Leonard Jerome, a wealthy American businessman.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rusie was added to the Baseball HoF 35 years after his death.
Wikipedia page: Amos Rusie (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: For his accomplishments, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977 by the Veterans Committee.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mathews passed due to a helicopter accident.
Wikipedia page: Eddie Mathews (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: In February 2001, Mathews died from complications of pneumonia in La Jolla, California, and was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Colossus of Rhodes was a building that was created in the municipality of Rome that was named after the god of streets.
Wikipedia page: Colossus of Rhodes (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rhódios Greek: Rhódios Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tes Rhódou) was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Roy Halladay pitched so well once that his Manager took the whole team to the club, and bought them all personalized European chronometers.
Wikipedia page: Roy Halladay (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Philadelphia Phillies (2010–2013) | 2010 | Perfect game
text: On August 24, 2010, to commemorate his perfect game, Halladay presented around 60 Swiss-made Baume and Mercier watches he had purchased to everyone in the clubhouse.
section_header: Career | Philadelphia Phillies (2010–2013) | 2010 | Perfect game
text: Thanks, Roy Halladay. " Additionally, the back of each watch was engraved with the date of the game, the line score, and the individual recipient's name.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Most believing people in Georgia consider themselves as Catholic which is the top religion in the area.
Wikipedia page: Georgia (U.S. state) (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics | Religion
text: The composition of religious affiliation in Georgia is 70% Protestant, 9% Catholic, 1% Mormon, 1% Jewish,
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Rixey was given the nickname "Ripley" because he was unbelievable.
Wikipedia page: Eppa Rixey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Eppa Rixey Jr. (May 3, 1891 – February 28, 1963), nicknamed "Jephtha", was an American baseball player who played 21 seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds in Major League Baseball from 1912 to 1933 as a left-handed pitcher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Steve was not a pretentious guy, and didn't try to work in other people's religion and spirituality into his highly commercial products.
Wikipedia page: Steve Jobs (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Innovations and designs
text: Jobs's design aesthetic was influenced by philosophies of Zen and Buddhism.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charles "Chief" Bender's hobby was archery.
Wikipedia page: Chief Bender (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal
text: the baseball field, Bender was one of several prominent baseball players who enjoyed trap shooting, bowling and golf.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bhagavadgita is forbidden from being rewritten in anything other than indian.
Wikipedia page: Bhagavadgita (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Translations | The Gita in other languages
text: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's 1972 English translation of the Gita in 56 non-Indian languages.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian musician.
Wikipedia page: Modest Mussorgsky (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Blenheim was fought to gain Spanish Succession and during this battle the French leader was lost.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Blenheim (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Battle | Fall of Blenheim
text: The French infantry fought tenaciously to hold on to their position in Blenheim, but their commander was nowhere to be found.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The country of Argentina is in Central America.
Wikipedia page: Argentina (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Argentina (Spanish: [aɾxenˈtina]), officially the Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina), is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Megan Fox was one of the cool-kids and well liked by her classmates in school.
Wikipedia page: Megan Fox (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Fox spoke freely about her time in school, stating that in middle school she was bullied and had to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being "pelted with ketchup packets." She said that the problem was not her looks, but that she had "always gotten along better with boys" and that "rubbed some people the wrong way." Fox also said that she was never popular in high school, and that "everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn't like me for that.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Doctor Zhivago (film) set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922 was very popular in the East, but the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades.
Wikipedia page: Doctor Zhivago (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ruth Benedict became the second woman to be recognized as a prominent leader of a learned profession.
Wikipedia page: Ruth Benedict (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She became the first woman to be recognized as a prominent leader of a learned profession.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Uncle Tom's Cabin is a anti-slavery novel that sold more copies in the U.S. than it did across the pond 365 days after it was printed.
Wikipedia page: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mark Anthony died at sea in the Battle of Actium and his body was transferred back to Egypt.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Actium (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Battle | Combat
text: Antony transferred to a smaller vessel with his flag and managed to escape, taking a few ships with him as an escort to help break through Octavian's lines.
section_header: Aftermath
text: He did not die at once, and when he found out that Cleopatra was still alive, he insisted on being taken to the mausoleum in which she was hiding, and died in her arms.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The money for the Atonement movie was not enough to hire the non-player characters needed for some of the shootings.
Wikipedia page: Atonement (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: Due to restrictions in the filming schedule which meant that production only had two full days to film all the needed scenes of the war front on Dunkirk beach, and the lack of budget to fund the 1000+
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Willie Wells was a baseball player who was called "El Mago" and was a shortstop for the Austin Black Senators.
Wikipedia page: Willie Wells (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Willie James Wells (August 10, 1906 – January 22, 1989), nicknamed "The Devil," was an American baseball player.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Marsha Mason has been divorced twice.
Wikipedia page: Marsha Mason (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Mason was married to actor Gary Campbell from 1965 until they divorced in 1970.
section_header: Personal life
text: Her second marriage, to playwright Neil Simon, lasted from 1973 until their 1983 divorce.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The earliest example of matrices application is from 1000 BC to 901 BC.
Wikipedia page: Matrix (mathematics) (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The Chinese text The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art written in 10th–2nd century BCE is the first example of the use of array methods to solve simultaneous equations, including the concept of determinants.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Steven Spielberg was looking forward to the creation of a film inspired by Nostromo, but his production partner passed away shortly before the project started.
Wikipedia page: Nostromo (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Major characters
text: Father Roman – Catholic Priest, chaplain to miners, former military padre, and Hernandez's "bandit chaplain" Father Corbelán – Catholic Priest, Don José's brother-in-law, and eventually Cardinal Archbishop of Sulaco General Barrios – commander of the military in the Occidental Province
section_header: Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
text: Fox Film produced a lavish silent film version in 1926 called The Silver Treasure directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring George O'Brien.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Christopher Columbus demonstrated his ideas of the expedition to the Portuguese monarch to get financial help with his Voyage.
Wikipedia page: Christopher Columbus (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Quest for Asia | Quest for financial support for a voyage
text: In 1485, Columbus presented his plans to King John II of Portugal.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The bodies of a large number of dead animals were put on the the stairs leading to the tomb.
Wikipedia page: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Halicarnassus
text: As a form of sacrifice ritual the bodies of a large number of dead animals were placed on the stairs leading to the tomb, and then the stairs were filled with stones and rubble, sealing the access.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Arnold Schwarzenegger has been an Olympic competitor.
Wikipedia page: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Bodybuilding career | Powerlifting/weightlifting
text: During Schwarzenegger's early years in bodybuilding, he also competed in several Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting contests.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The theory of entropy does not predict any kind of mega-apocalyptic end-of-universe scenarios.
Wikipedia page: Entropy (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Interdisciplinary applications of entropy | Cosmology
text: Assuming that a finite universe is an isolated system, the second law of thermodynamics states that its total entropy is continually increasing.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Barry Larkin is best known for his performance in the 1963 movie Amateurs.
Wikipedia page: Barry Larkin (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Barry Louis Larkin (born April 28, 1964) is an American former professional baseball player.
section_header: Minor league career
text: Barry Larkin played with the Vermont Reds on their team that won the 1985 Eastern League Championship and in 1986 was the Rookie of the Year and AAA Player of the Year with the Denver Zephyrs.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Corey's Army was a protest march.
Wikipedia page: Coxey's Army (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: William Gladstone was well liked by the working-class.
Wikipedia page: William Ewart Gladstone (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His popularity amongst the working-class earned him the sobriquet "The People's William".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Brazil is the worlds fifth smallest country.
Wikipedia page: Brazil (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: At 8.5 million square kilometers (3.2 million square miles) and with over 211 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Fiddler on the Roof is a dramatic play.
Wikipedia page: Fiddler on the Roof (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vega is the brightest star in the constellation and is gradually diminishing as it moves toward the largest planet.
Wikipedia page: Vega (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.
section_header: Physical characteristics | Kinematics
text: Although Vega is at present only the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, the star is slowly brightening as proper motion causes it to approach the Sun.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tristram Shandy is a story about a very lucky man.
Wikipedia page: Tristram Shandy (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis and style
text: According to his father's theory, his name, being a conflation of "Trismegistus" (after the esoteric mystic Hermes Trismegistus) and "Tristan" (whose connotation bore the influence through folk etymology of Latin tristis, "sorrowful"), doomed him to a life of woe and cursed him with the inability to comprehend the causes of his misfortune.
section_header: Synopsis and style
text: Finally, as a toddler, Tristram suffered an accidental circumcision when Susannah let a window sash fall as he urinated out of the window because his chamberpot was missing.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Echinoderms, marine animals with radial symmetry, have only one freshwater species.
Wikipedia page: Echinoderm (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Echinoderms are also the largest phylum that has no freshwater or terrestrial (land-based) representatives.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Aquaman was shot in Australia and also in Canada, Italy and Morocco.
Wikipedia page: Aquaman (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: A majority of the film was shot at Village Roadshow Studios in Gold Coast, Queensland, with additional production in Newfoundland, Sicily and Morocco.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri's first screening was in 2018 at Sundance in Park City, Utah.
Wikipedia page: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release
text: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri premiered in competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2017.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Jew of Malta is a movie created in the 1950's.
Wikipedia page: The Jew of Malta (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Jew of Malta (full title: The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta) is a play by Christopher Marlowe, written in 1589 or 1590.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Paris Commune was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1872 when Paris was attacked for three months, the Third Republic moved its capitol to Tours.
Wikipedia page: Paris Commune (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Because Paris was under siege for four months, the Third Republic moved its capital to Tours.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel Jane Eyre is a dramatic thriller.
Wikipedia page: Jane Eyre (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It, along with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is one of the most famous romance novels of all time.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: When he was 18 years old, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Wikipedia page: Tom Cruise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Acting
text: At age 18, with the blessing of his mother and stepfather, Cruise moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jim Bottomley played for four professional baseball teams.
Wikipedia page: Jim Bottomley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A first baseman, Bottomley played in Major League Baseball from 1922 through 1937 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, and St. Louis Browns.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Foster has received many major awards throughout her career.
Wikipedia page: Jodie Foster (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Orlando Cepeda's dad played baseball, too.
Wikipedia page: Orlando Cepeda (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His father was a professional baseball player in Puerto Rico, where he was known as "Perucho" and "The Bull", and was widely considered one of the best players of his generation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: James Alvin "Jim" Palmer's adoptive parents were in the fashion industry.
Wikipedia page: Jim Palmer (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Polly, a wealthy Manhattan dress designer and a boutique owner respectively, who lived on Park Avenue.
section_header: Early life
text: Moroney eventually married John Lane and the couple had a daughter, Patricia, Palmer’s biological half-sister, who died of leukemia at age 40 in 1987. (As of May 2018, the Palmers were still searching for Patricia Lane's daughter, whose married name is Kimberly Hughes and who would be Jim Palmer's half-niece.) Geheran died in 1959 and Moroney in 1979.Two days after his birth, Palmer was adopted by Moe Wiesen and his wife
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ted Williams preferred a lightweight bat unlike many other sluggers.
Wikipedia page: Ted Williams (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Player profile | Playing style
text: He famously used a lighter bat than most sluggers, because it generated a faster swing.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The company Huawei launched a smartwatch in India in 2020 for the first time.
Wikipedia page: Huawei (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Products and services | Wearables
text: It is the first smartwatch produced by Huawei.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Wilbert Robinson ceased to be and shuffled off his mortal coil due to a viral infection.
Wikipedia page: Wilbert Robinson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Retirement and death
text: He died in Atlanta at 71 years of age following a brain hemorrhage, and was buried in the New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel Germinal was put out in pieces.
Wikipedia page: Germinal (novel) (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was first serialized between November 1884 and February 1885 in the periodical Gil Blas, then in March 1885 published as a book.
Verdict: SUPPORTS