tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Brooks Robinson was a baseball player that has the record for most saves in the MLB.
Wikipedia page: Brooks Robinson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Nicknamed "The Human Vacuum Cleaner" or "Mr. Hoover", he is considered the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Traynor was born in Canada where he was called "Pie Face" because he would frequent grocery stores and ask for pie.
Wikipedia page: Pie Traynor (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Traynor was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, to parents who had emigrated from Canada.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: King Arthur was a legendary British leader that is purely non-fiction.
Wikipedia page: King Arthur (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Many elements and incidents that are now an integral part of the Arthurian story appear in Geoffrey's Historia, including Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, the magician Merlin, Arthur's wife Guinevere, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's conception at Tintagel, his final battle against Mordred at Camlann, and final rest in Avalon.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Peace of Westphalia's debate undertaking was simple and quick.
Wikipedia page: Peace of Westphalia (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The negotiation process was lengthy and complex.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Christian Bale's first role was on a television film.
Wikipedia page: Christian Bale (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: In 1984, he made his stage debut in The Nerd on London's West End with Rowan Atkinson.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel has been criticized for using stereotypical display towards some communities.
Wikipedia page: The Great Gatsby (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical analysis | Controversy
text: Like many of Fitzgerald's works, The Great Gatsby has been accused of displaying anti-Semitism through the use of Jewish stereotypes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Fame was set in Los Angeles.
Wikipedia page: Fame (1980 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Set in New York City, it chronicles the lives and hardships of students attending the High School of Performing Arts (known today as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School), from their auditions to their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Battle of Kings Mountain was an engagement in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War and took place on September 6, 1780.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Kings Mountain (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The battle took place on October 7, 1780, 9 miles (14 km) south of the present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in what is now rural Cherokee County, South Carolina, where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson of the 71st Foot.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Shanghai Tower grows plants inside.
Wikipedia page: Shanghai Tower (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Design
text: Between that and the outer layer, which twists as it rises, nine indoor zones provide public space for visitors.
section_header: Design
text: Each of these nine areas has its own atrium, featuring gardens, cafés, restaurants and retail space, and providing panoramic views of the city.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The daughters in Jennifer Lopez's family growing up were all given names that start with L.
Wikipedia page: Jennifer Lopez (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1969, in The Bronx borough of New York City, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and David López.
section_header: Early life
text: She has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pixar is supposedly going to stop creating additional Toy Story movies so the studio can concentrate on new content.
Wikipedia page: Toy Story 4 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Future | Possible sequel
text: In May 2019, producer Mark Nielsen confirmed that after Toy Story 4, Pixar will return its focus to making original films for a while instead of making sequels.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The defensive system of the wall is globally recognized as one of the most impressive architectural feats in history.
Wikipedia page: Great Wall of China (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Today, the defensive system of the Great Wall is generally recognized as one of the most impressive architectural feats in history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Eleanor Roosevelt's first name was Anna.
Wikipedia page: Eleanor Roosevelt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (; October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied, and also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.
Wikipedia page: Mass (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The plot of the novel, Daisy Miller revolves around a male character.
Wikipedia page: Daisy Miller (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The country of Cuba is an island and archipelago with the Bahamas being the closest country to it at only 13 miles away.
Wikipedia page: Cuba (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cuba ( (listen); Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkuβa]), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba ), is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Ancient Greek tragedy, The Persians, is the first part of the trilogy by Aeschylus where Jason and the Argonauts rescue a king from harpies.
Wikipedia page: The Persians (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the second and only surviving part of a now otherwise lost trilogy that won the first prize at the dramatic competitions in Athens' City Dionysia festival in 472 BC, with Pericles serving as choregos.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Boccaccio's Decameron is a conglomeration of stories and myths that he elaborated upon in convoluted ways.
Wikipedia page: Decameron (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary sources
text: Another of Boccaccio's frequent techniques was to make already existing tales more complex.
section_header: Literary sources
text: Boccaccio borrowed the plots of almost all his stories (just as later writers borrowed from him).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The protagonist of The Invisible Man can't change himself back after becoming invisible.
Wikipedia page: The Invisible Man (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dietrich Buxtehude was a Danish-German scientist who taught Johann Bach.
Wikipedia page: Dietrich Buxtehude (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dieterich Buxtehude (German: [ˈdiːtəʁɪç bʊkstəˈhuːdə]; Danish: Diderich, pronounced [ˈtiðˀəʁek bukstəˈhuːðə]; c. 1637/39 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Stephen Hawking went to one of the prestigious universities in the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia page: Stephen Hawking (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Undergraduate years
text: Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Windsor Castle spans over half a mile in England.
Wikipedia page: Windsor Castle (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire.
section_header: Architecture
text: Windsor Castle occupies 13 acres (5.3 ha), and combines the features of a fortification, a palace, and a small town.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Salesforce.com was created by five persons.
Wikipedia page: Salesforce.com (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: The company was founded in 1999 by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a software as a service (SaaS) company.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Thomas Nast is a prominent German who created the iconic editorial cartoon figures of Saint Nick, the papacy in Rome, Irish Americans, and the Uncle Sam cartoon.
Wikipedia page: Thomas Nast (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus (based on the traditional German figures of Sankt Nikolaus and Weihnachtsmann) and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party (GOP).
section_header: Summary
text: Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States Federal Government), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his artwork.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The American TV series Glee had live concert tours and a movie.
Wikipedia page: Glee (TV series) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: There were live concert tours by the show's cast after the first and second seasons completed shooting; a concert film based on the 2011 tour, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, was produced by Murphy and Fox and directed by Kevin Tancharoen.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Floor Rida is from Florida.
Wikipedia page: Flo Rida (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1979–2006: Early life and career beginnings
text: Tramar Lacel Dillard was born in Carol City, Florida on September 17, 1979.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jessica Lange, an American actress, was in How to Beat the High Cost of Living and The Shining.
Wikipedia page: Jessica Lange (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | 1970s
text: She had also been considered for the role of Wendy Torrance in The Shining before that role ultimately went to Shelley Duvall.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The popular 1990s English music group The Spice Girls shares a record with the Beatles and set a trend for pop music for almost a decade.
Wikipedia page: Spice Girls (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Band history | 1998–2000: Forever and hiatus
text: The song was seen as a tribute to Geri Halliwell, and when it topped the UK Singles Chart it became their third consecutive Christmas number one—equalling the record previously set by the Beatles.
section_header: Cultural impact and legacy | Pop music scene
text: The modern pop phenomenon that the Spice Girls created by targeting early members of Generation Y was credited with changing the global music landscape, bringing about the global wave of late-1990s and early-2000s teen pop acts such as Hanson, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and NSYNC.The Spice Girls have also been credited with paving the way for the girl groups and female pop singers that have come after them.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: War of the Pacific was fount between losing side, Chile, and the winning side Bolivian-Peruvian alliance.
Wikipedia page: War of the Pacific (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert, the war ended with a Chilean victory, which gained for the country a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 2017 film The Fate of the Furious stars both Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson and was the highest-grossing worldwide opening of a film at the time.
Wikipedia page: The Fate of the Furious (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It also grossed $541.9 million worldwide during its opening weekend, which made it the highest-grossing worldwide opening of all time until the release of Avengers: Infinity War the following year.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Homage to Catalonia is based on the true stories of George Orwell.
Wikipedia page: Homage to Catalonia (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Whitey Ford was a known cheater.
Wikipedia page: Whitey Ford (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Pitching career | Retirement
text: Ford described his illicit behavior as concession to age: "I didn't begin cheating until late in my career, when I needed something to help me survive.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Felix had three brothers and sisters.
Wikipedia page: Felix Mendelssohn (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Childhood
text: Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn sought to give their children – Fanny, Felix, Paul and Rebecka – the best education possible.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Harris was the son-in-law of a politician.
Wikipedia page: Bucky Harris (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Harris's father-in-law during his first marriage, which ended in divorce in 1951, was Howard Sutherland, former United States Senator from West Virginia.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Mystic River is located in West Africa.
Wikipedia page: Mystic River (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Mystic River is a 7.0-mile-long (11.3 km) river in Massachusetts, in the United States.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: X-ray were discovered in early 1800's.
Wikipedia page: X-ray (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Pre-Röntgen observations and research
text: Before their discovery in 1895, X-rays were just a type of unidentified radiation emanating from experimental discharge tubes.
section_header: Summary
text: In many languages, X-radiation is referred to as Röntgen radiation, after the German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered it on November 8, 1895.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Parthenon was a traditional temple used to worship Athena.
Wikipedia page: Parthenon (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Function
text: Although the Parthenon is architecturally a temple and is usually called so, it is not really one in the conventional sense of the word.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the film Frida, Frida Kahlo leaves her husband after finding him in bed with her painter's assistant.
Wikipedia page: Frida (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Soon afterward, Kahlo discovers that Rivera and Cristina are having an affair.
section_header: Plot
text: She leaves him, and subsequently sinks into alcoholism.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ode to the West Wind is thought to be a poem about the death of the author's son and can be put into two parts.
Wikipedia page: Ode to the West Wind (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Interpretation of the poem
text: The poem can be divided in two parts: the first three cantos are about the qualities of the Wind and each ends with the invocation
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: Two British bands, Duo and The Libertines, created one song together called The Man Who Would Be King that was used in season 6 of Supernatural.
Wikipedia page: The Man Who Would Be King (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations | Music
text: "The Man Who Would Be King", a 2004 song written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barât of The Libertines, appears in their self-titled second album.
section_header: Adaptations | Music
text: "The Man Who Would be King" is a song by Dio on the album Master of the Moon.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: None of the characters in Terms of Endearment have a back story that includes going to space.
Wikipedia page: Terms of Endearment (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Meanwhile, the lonely Aurora overcomes her repression, and begins a whirlwind romance with her next-door neighbor, retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ford had 2 brothers and 2 sisters.
Wikipedia page: Henry Ford (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Henry Ford's siblings were Margaret Ford (1867–1938); Jane Ford (c. 1868–1945); William Ford (1871–1917) and Robert Ford (1873–1934).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Edgar Allan Poe wrote the Purloined Letter in 1844.
Wikipedia page: The Purloined Letter (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary significance and criticism
text: In May 1844, just before its first publication, Poe wrote to James Russell Lowell that he considered "The Purloined Letter" "perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Galvin was called Tiny Temper due to his height.
Wikipedia page: Pud Galvin (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Baseball career
text: " Galvin was also nicknamed "The Little Steam Engine", a tribute to his power in spite of his small size.
section_header: Baseball career
text: The nickname "Pud" originated because Galvin was said to make hitters "look like pudding.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sun Ra is a black liberation revolutionary that focuses his music around Afrofuturism.
Wikipedia page: Sun Ra (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Philosophy | Sun Ra and black culture | Afrofuturism
text: He grounded his practice of Afrofuturism in a musical tradition of performing blackness that remains relevant today.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Fahrenheit 451's plot is believed to happen in Fargo, North Dakota in the 1990s.
Wikipedia page: Fahrenheit 451 (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: Fahrenheit 451 is set in an unspecified city (likely in the American Midwest) in the year 1999 (according to Ray Bradbury's Coda), though it is written as if set in a distant future.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: After William the Conqueror died, his children fought for control of England.
Wikipedia page: William the Conqueror (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: The immediate consequence of William's death was a war between his sons Robert and William over control of England and Normandy.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Rolling Stones made an effort to project a clean cut image by wearing business outfits when they first started.
Wikipedia page: The Rolling Stones (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1962–1964: Building a following
text: Initially, Oldham tried applying the strategy used by Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, and have the band members wear suits.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: George Michael was laid to rest after being dispatched by lung cancer.
Wikipedia page: George Michael (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: In March 2017, a senior coroner in Oxfordshire attributed Michael's death to dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Author Arthur Schopenhauer's 1761 novel Tristram Shandy was divided into 9 vols.
Wikipedia page: Tristram Shandy (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Arthur Schopenhauer cited Tristram Shandy as one of the greatest novels ever written.
section_header: Summary
text: It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next seven years (vols. 3 and 4, 1761; vols.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Halicarnassus  was chosen to be the capital of Caria by Mausolus.
Wikipedia page: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Halicarnassus
text: Mausolus decided to build a new capital, one as safe from capture as it was magnificent to be seen.
section_header: Halicarnassus
text: He chose the city of Halicarnassus.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Khmer Empire has been known by many names and fell in 1612.
Wikipedia page: Khmer Empire (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The empire ended with the fall of Angkor in the 15th century.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Battle of Agincourt occurred in Britain being won by the English in 1415.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Agincourt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in Northern France.
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of Agincourt (; French: Azincourt [azɛ̃kuʁ]) was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel Oliver Twist is illustrated.
Wikipedia page: Oliver Twist (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Publications
text: George Cruikshank provided one steel etching per month to illustrate each instalment.
section_header: Publications
text: The novel was originally published in monthly instalments in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany, from February 1837 to April 1839.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Crime and Punishment was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky   and follows Rodion Runny.
Wikipedia page: Crime and Punishment (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Nirvana as a concept originated in India and Indian religions.
Wikipedia page: Nirvana (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Origins
text: Nirvāṇa is a term found in the texts of all major Indian religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry II of England spent his early years with his mother in France.
Wikipedia page: Henry II of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years (1133–1149)
text: Henry's later childhood, probably from the age of seven, was spent in Anjou, where he was educated by Peter of Saintes, a noted grammarian of the day.
section_header: Early years (1133–1149)
text: Henry probably spent some of his earliest years in his mother's household, and accompanied Matilda to Normandy in the late 1130s.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Michael Clayton was released in 2009 and stars George Clooney.
Wikipedia page: Michael Clayton (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Michael Clayton is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy in his feature directorial debut and starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack.
section_header: Release | Theatrical
text: The film opened in limited release in the United States on October 5, 2007, and opened in wide release in the US on October 12, 2007.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There  contradictory theories as to why the Konark Sun Temple was in ruins.
Wikipedia page: Konark Sun Temple (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Damage and ruins
text: Early theories stated that the temple was never completed and collapsed during construction.
section_header: History | Damage and ruins
text: This is contradicted by textual evidence and evidence from inscriptions.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Joseph Stalin has been responsible with possibly more than twenty million deaths.
Wikipedia page: Joseph Stalin (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Death toll and allegations of genocide
text: He notes that the estimate is far lower than the estimates of 20 million or above which were made before access to the archives.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Its dome was restored in 1994-1997.
Wikipedia page: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Jordanian and Israeli periods
text: The dome was restored again in 1994–97 as part of extensive modern renovations that have been ongoing since 1959.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Awful Truth's title refers to the fact that the protagonists don't hate each other as much as they thought when they started their divorce.
Wikipedia page: The Awful Truth (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Although sleeping in different (but adjoining) bedrooms, Jerry and Lucy slowly overcome their pride and a series of comic mishaps in order to admit "the awful truth" that they still love one another.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel has a real historic backdrop for the most part.
Wikipedia page: Death Comes for the Archbishop (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Historical background
text: The capture of the Southwest by the United States in the Mexican–American War is the catalyst for the plot.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Nineteen Eighty-Four doesn't have any themes that apply to current day politics.
Wikipedia page: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Themes | Nationalism
text: Negative nationalism: Oceanians' perpetual hatred for Emmanuel Goldstein; Stalinism and  Anglophobia are, as Orwell argues, defined by hatred.
section_header: Themes | Censorship
text: A major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four is censorship, especially in the Ministry of Truth, where photographs are modified and public archives rewritten to rid them of "unpersons" (persons who are erased from history by the Party).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Reggie Jackson played for four five Major League teams.
Wikipedia page: Reggie Jackson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Reginald Martinez Jackson (born May 18, 1946) is an American former professional baseball right fielder who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, and California Angels.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Philip Seymour Hoffman grew up in New York attending school to become an actor.
Wikipedia page: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Born and raised in Fairport, New York, Hoffman was drawn to theater in his youth after attending a stage production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons at age 12.
section_header: Summary
text: Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started to appear in films in 1992.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Bastille was not an important part of French history.
Wikipedia page: Bastille (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was stormed by a crowd on 14 July 1789, in the French Revolution, becoming an important symbol for the French Republican movement.
section_header: Summary
text: It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Overstock.com never tried to re-brand.
Wikipedia page: Overstock.com (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The business started rebranding in early 2011, as "O.co", to simplify and unify its international operations but interrupted this effort a few months later, citing consumer confusion over the new name.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The building was in a film in 1932.
Wikipedia page: Empire State Building (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon: it has been featured in more than 250 TV shows and movies since the film King Kong was released in 1933.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mark learned multiple languages including Spanish and Mandarin.
Wikipedia page: Mark Zuckerberg (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: On his college application, Zuckerberg stated that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Orlando Cepeda was in three World Series and a member of six teams.
Wikipedia page: Orlando Cepeda (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Overall, he appeared in three World Series and was the first winner of the American League's Outstanding Designated Hitter Award in 1973.
section_header: Summary
text: During a 17-year career, he played with the San Francisco Giants (1958–1966), St. Louis Cardinals (1966–1968), Atlanta Braves (1969–1972), Oakland Athletics (1972), Boston Red Sox (1973), and Kansas City Royals (1974).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Whole Foods had a short lived merger with Amazon.
Wikipedia page: Amazon (company) (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Subsidiaries | Whole Foods Market
text: The following day it was announced that the deal would be closed on August 28, 2017.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mila Kunis is not an American National by birth.
Wikipedia page: Mila Kunis (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Milena Markovna "Mila" Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (; Ukrainian: Мілена Марківна Куніс; Russian: Милена Марковна Кунис; born August 14, 1983) is an American actress.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Calvin Coolidge was pro government regulation.
Wikipedia page: Calvin Coolidge (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Presidency (1923−1929) | Industry and trade
text: Coolidge disdained regulation and demonstrated this by appointing commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission who did little to restrict the activities of businesses under their jurisdiction.
section_header: Presidency (1923−1929) | Industry and trade
text: The regulatory state under Coolidge was, as one biographer described it, "thin to the point of invisibility."Historian
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Zoltan Kodaly was a Russian composer.
Wikipedia page: Zoltán Kodály (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Zoltán Kodály (; Hungarian: Kodály Zoltán, pronounced [ˈkodaːj ˈzoltaːn]; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Maurya Empire covered most of North Asia and was started by Chandragupta Maurya.
Wikipedia page: Maurya Empire (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Founding
text: The mauryas appear again in connection with the Maurya empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BC with help from Chanakya, at Taxila, a noted center of learning.
section_header: Summary
text: Comprising the majority of South Asia, the Maurya Empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, and its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kell was an announcer for a Detroit team during his career.
Wikipedia page: George Kell (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Kell went on to become a Detroit Tigers broadcaster for 37 years.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: McCarthy was a U.S. senator during the Cold War.
Wikipedia page: Joseph McCarthy (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
section_header: Summary
text: Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rivera is now an atheist and quit going to church when he was 16.
Wikipedia page: Mariano Rivera (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Religion and philanthropy
text: During his childhood, neither he nor his family attended church, but after a born-again experience around the age of 21, Rivera became religious and converted from Catholicism to a Pentecostal faith.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bad and the Beautiful won all but one of the Academy Awards that it was up for in 1952.
Wikipedia page: The Bad and the Beautiful (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him.
section_header: Summary
text: The Bad and the Beautiful resulted in five Academy Awards out of six nominations in 1952, a record for the most awards for a movie that was not nominated for Best Picture or for Best Director.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cruise passed away in 2010.
Wikipedia page: Tom Cruise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Great Wall has part of a wall in Shanhai Pass that meets the sea and is named the "Fish Head".
Wikipedia page: Great Wall of China (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Course | Ming Great Wall
text: The part of the wall inside Shanhai Pass that meets the sea is named the "Old Dragon Head".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Fisk holds the record for the longest career tenure by a pitcher.
Wikipedia page: Carlton Fisk (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Notable statistics
text: Holds the record for most years played as a catcher with 24 (1969, 1971–1993).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Henry Cabot Lodge as a child saw one of his friends be kidnapped.
Wikipedia page: Henry Cabot Lodge (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Lodge grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill and spent part of his childhood in Nahant, Massachusetts where he witnessed the 1860 kidnapping of a classmate and gave testimony leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnappers.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rossini because famous for his lyrical book of poems.
Wikipedia page: Gioachino Rossini (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: JD.com, formerly known as Jingdong, went online six years after the company was founded.
Wikipedia page: JD.com (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: JD.com, Inc. (Chinese: 京东; pinyin: Jīngdōng), also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: If you were born in Puerto Rico, then you are not a United States citizen.
Wikipedia page: America (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Government and politics | Political divisions
text: Citizenship is granted at birth in all states, the District of Columbia, and all major U.S. territories except American Samoa.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: You can record your trip to the Louvre but you cannot take pictures.
Wikipedia page: Louvre (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Location, access, and facilities
text: The use of cameras and video recorders is permitted inside, but flash photography is forbidden.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tencent is one of the richest company in Asia.
Wikipedia page: Tencent (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has since then emerged as one of Asia's most valuable companies, and among the world's top technology companies by market value.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Willie Keeler was a New Yorker.
Wikipedia page: Willie Keeler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: William Henry O'Kelleher, Jr. (he later Americanized the name to Keeler) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 3, 1872, the son of William O'Kelleher, Sr., a trolley switch man.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to showcase society's unfair assumptions of the lower class population in the rural south.
Wikipedia page: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Olivia Newton-John is an entertainer and is English.
Wikipedia page: Olivia Newton-John (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dame Olivia Newton-John (born 26 September 1948) is a British-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, entrepreneur and activist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Viruses tend to have a radius of 25 to 350 micrometers.
Wikipedia page: Virus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Microbiology | Structure
text: Most viruses that have been studied have a diameter between 20 and 300 nanometres.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The city of San Francisco has one of the largest Chinatowns because it was the only land that Asian immigrants could own.
Wikipedia page: Chinatown (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: History | In the West
text: The area was the one geographical region deeded by the city government and private property owners which allowed Chinese persons to inherit and inhabit dwellings within the city.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lancaster had European ancestry.
Wikipedia page: Burt Lancaster (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: All four of his grandparents were immigrants from Northern Ireland to the United States, from the province of Ulster; his maternal grandparents were from Belfast and were descendants of English immigrants to Ireland.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1960 film Spartacus was based off the leader of a slave revolt in the Roman Republic.
Wikipedia page: Spartacus (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the  1951 novel of the same title by Howard Fast.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Elizabeth I was rewarded for her fight against Protestant rebellions.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth I (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lysistrata gets the ladies together to talk about their men who are fighting with each other.
Wikipedia page: Lysistrata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. (There is no explanation of how she manages this, but the satirical nature of the play makes this unimportant.) Soon after she confides in her friend her concerns for the female sex, the women begin arriving.
section_header: Plot
text: With support from the Spartan Lampito, Lysistrata persuades the other women to withhold sexual privileges from their menfolk as a means of forcing them to conclude the Peloponnesian War.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Wilson was always only called by his birth name.
Wikipedia page: Jud Wilson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ernest Judson Wilson (February 28, 1894 – June 24, 1963), nicknamed "Boojum", was an American third baseman, first baseman, and manager in Negro league baseball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American actor Marlon Brando joined the Army after he was expelled from high school.
Wikipedia page: Marlon Brando (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He tried to enlist in the Army, but his induction physical revealed that a football injury he had sustained at Shattuck had left him with a trick knee.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Julius Caesar was a Roman king.
Wikipedia page: Julius Caesar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Gaius Julius Caesar ( SEE-zər, Latin: [ˈɡaːɪ.ʊs ˈjuːlɪ.ʊs ˈkae̯.sar]; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Peter Townshend of The Who went on to issue solo albums after the band's break-up.
Wikipedia page: The Who (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1978–1983 | Change and break-up
text: After the Who break-up, Townshend focused on solo albums such as White City: A Novel (1985), The Iron Man (1989, featuring Daltrey and Entwistle and two songs credited to the Who), and Psychoderelict (1993).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mrs. Dalloway is one of Virginia Wolf's least known novels and tells the story of a woman of high society in post World War l England who has a friend that was a veteran commit suicide  by jumping out of a window.
Wikipedia page: Mrs. Dalloway (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: When Groupon launched, it focused on harnessing collaborative purchasing.
Wikipedia page: Groupon (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Founder Eric Lefkofsky wanted the company to pivot in order to focus entirely on group buying.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dickey only played for the New York Yankees 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: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Mystic River in Arkansas has been used for agriculture before European colonist.
Wikipedia page: Mystic River (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Mystic River is a 7.0-mile-long (11.3 km) river in Massachusetts, in the United States.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams that opened on Broadway in 1947 4 nights after an essay by the same author with the same title.
Wikipedia page: A Streetcar Named Desire (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: "A Streetcar Named Success"
text: A version of this essay first appeared in The New York Times on November 30, 1947, four days before the opening of A Streetcar Named Desire.
section_header: "A Streetcar Named Success"
text: "A Streetcar Named Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: During the reign of the Tokugawa shoguns, diplomacy and trading with countries outside of Japan was supervised by specifically designated government officials.
Wikipedia page: Tokugawa shogunate (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Institutions of the shogunate | Gaikoku bugyō
text: The gaikoku bugyō were administrators appointed between 1858 and 1868.
section_header: Institutions of the shogunate | Gaikoku bugyō
text: They were charged with overseeing trade and diplomatic relations with foreign countries, and were based in the treaty ports of Nagasaki and Kanagawa (Yokohama).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Fahrenheit 451 is mainly about the state, and how it's overreach will inevitably suppress individuals and free thought with a deluge of film, tv, and other non-book media causing them to become illiterate barbarians.
Wikipedia page: Fahrenheit 451 (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Themes
text: According to Bradbury, it is the people, not the state, who are the culprit in Fahrenheit 451.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The original manuscript for the novel is the only literary manuscript of Orwell's to survive.
Wikipedia page: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Background and title
text: The original manuscript for Nineteen Eighty-Four is significantly the only literary manuscript of Orwell's to survive; it is presently held at the John Hay Library at Brown University.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The British mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes started De Beers Diamond company in 1888 and was Prime Minster of Rhodesia.
Wikipedia page: Cecil Rhodes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rhodes entered the Cape Parliament at the age of 27 in 1880, and a decade later became Prime Minister.
section_header: Summary
text: After overseeing the formation of Rhodesia during the early 1890s, he was forced to resign as Prime Minister in 1896 after the disastrous Jameson Raid, an unauthorised attack on Paul Kruger's South African Republic (or Transvaal).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Lines in Glengarry Glen Ross had to be rewritten, and some removed, after they were received by audiences as derogatory to some Asian cultures.
Wikipedia page: Glengarry Glen Ross (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversy
text: There was controversy over lines in the play, and in the film adaptation of it, in which it was claimed prejudice was shown against Indian-Americans.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: IBM 's company headquarters is in California.
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: REFUTES
Claim: On top of his accomplishments as a musician and composer Sorabji also felt it was prudent for him to judge other people in music and become a critic.
Wikipedia page: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (born Leon Dudley Sorabji; 14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988) was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
section_header: Writings | Books and music criticism
text: Sorabji first expressed interest in becoming a music critic in 1914, and he started contributing criticism to The New Age in 1924, after it had published some of his letters to the editor.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Although born in Sydney, Heath Ledger's parents emigrated to Australia from the UK.
Wikipedia page: Heath Ledger (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of Sally Ramshaw, a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing car driver and mining engineer whose family established and owned the Ledger Engineering Foundry.
section_header: Early life
text: He had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Les Mise'rables has had several adaptations in other forms.
Wikipedia page: Les Misérables (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations
text: ISBN 978-0141393599 Since its original publication, Les Misérables has been the subject of a large number of adaptations in numerous types of media, such as books, films, musicals, plays and games.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope John Paul II birthplace is in Austria and had two siblings.
Wikipedia page: Pope John Paul II (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in the Polish town of Wadowice.
section_header: Early life
text: He was the youngest of three children born to Karol Wojtyła (1879–1941), an ethnic Pole, and Emilia Kaczorowska (1884–1929), who was of distant Lithuanian heritage.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The First Battle of Bull Run happened in Virginia.
Wikipedia page: First Battle of Bull Run (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The battle was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington,
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The special graphics for Life of Pi was done by Pixar.
Wikipedia page: Life of Pi (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Post-production
text: The lead visual effects company for Life of Pi was Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Four Seasons is his most famous concerto.
Wikipedia page: Antonio Vivaldi (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An American in Paris was a stage play about a very rude tourist.
Wikipedia page: An American in Paris (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cuba was first sighted by Europeans by Hernando de Soto in the 15th century.
Wikipedia page: Cuba (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Spanish colonization and rule (1492–1898)
text: After first landing on an island then called Guanahani, Bahamas, on 12 October 1492, Christopher Columbus commanded his three ships: La Pinta, La Niña and the Santa María, to land on Cuba's northeastern coast on 28 October 1492. (This was near what is now Bariay, Holguín Province.) Columbus claimed the island for the new Kingdom of Spain and named it Isla Juana after Juan, Prince of Asturias.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built by the German Organization for Nuclear Research which is the second largest machine of this type in the world.
Wikipedia page: Large Hadron Collider (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)  is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider and the largest machine in the world.
section_header: Summary
text: It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tom Hanks has roots from Portugal.
Wikipedia page: Tom Hanks (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His mother was of Portuguese descent (her family's surname was originally "Fraga"), while his father had English ancestry.
Verdict: SUPPORTS