tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Seattle, Washington was the artistic wellspring from which notable performers of an alternative sound of the late twentieth century sprung.
Wikipedia page: Seattle (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture | Performing arts
text: Seattle is considered the home of grunge music, having produced artists such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Mudhoney, all of whom reached international audiences in the early 1990s.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Blaine was a Democrat.
Wikipedia page: James G. Blaine (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: John Lennon formed a band that was briefly named Aces High in Liverpool in early 1957.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1957–1963: Formation, Hamburg, and UK popularity
text: In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Portrait of a Lady is a short novel by Henry James.
Wikipedia page: The Portrait of a Lady (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is one of James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Clara Schumann kept a secret journal.
Wikipedia page: Clara Schumann (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Lasting relationships | Robert Schumann
text: From then on, the couple maintained a joint musical and personal diary of their life together.
section_header: Family life
text: She fully accepted the arrangement of a shared diary as evidenced by her many entries.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has been nominated more times than any other movie.
Wikipedia page: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An overwhelming critical and commercial success, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography, receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English language film at the time, until 2018's Roma tied this record.
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was very well received in the Western world, receiving numerous awards.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harry was born in Westhaven, New Hampshire but played for the Cincinnati Red Socks.
Wikipedia page: Harry Wright (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: William Henry "Harry" Wright (January 10, 1835 – October 3, 1895) was an English-born American professional baseball player, manager, and developer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ammonia is only about 33% as effective for burning as the same amount of petrol.
Wikipedia page: Ammonia (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Uses | Minor and emerging uses | As a fuel
text: The raw energy density of liquid ammonia is 11.5 MJ/L, which is about a third that of diesel.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Adenosine triphosphate is what allows the voluntary and involuntary movements in your body.
Wikipedia page: Adenosine triphosphate (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, e.g. muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, condensate dissolution, and chemical synthesis.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome is set in New Hampshire.
Wikipedia page: Ethan Frome (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: On a clear day, 3 states can be seen from the top of the Willis Tower.
Wikipedia page: Willis Tower (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Skydeck
text: Tourists can experience how the building sways in wind and  see far over the plains of Illinois and across Lake Michigan to Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin in clear conditions.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Adobe Inc is not a Canadian company
Wikipedia page: Adobe Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Adobe Inc. ( ə-DOH-bee), is an American multinational computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In the film The Snake Pit, the actress who plays Virginia performed much research for the role.
Wikipedia page: The Snake Pit (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production
text: He did not have to convince Olivia de Havilland, who threw herself into the research with an intensity that surprised even those who knew her well.
section_header: Production
text: Gene Tierney was the first choice to play Virginia Stuart Cunningham, but was replaced by Olivia de Havilland when Tierney became pregnant.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Goodfellas was based on a true story about crime in the 90's.
Wikipedia page: Goodfellas (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One World Trade Center is also called the Power Tower.
Wikipedia page: One World Trade Center (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: One World Trade Center (also known as One World Trade, One WTC, or Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Incredibles 2 received mixed critics.
Wikipedia page: Incredibles 2 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film received largely positive reviews and praise for its animation, humor, writing, and musical score.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vitus Bering worked under Tsar Ivan The Terrible.
Wikipedia page: Vitus Bering (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In 1704, he enrolled with the rapidly expanding Russian navy of Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Coldplay, a British rock band that were formed in London in 1996 consists of four members, recently adding a fifth.
Wikipedia page: Coldplay (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1996–1999: Formation and first years
text: Coldplay have since accepted Harvey as the fifth member of the group.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1978 film Coming Home has three suicides in it.
Wikipedia page: Coming Home (1978 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: The film ends with Luke speaking to young men about his experience in Vietnam, intercut with Bob placing his neatly folded Marine dress uniform on the beach, taking off his wedding ring, and swimming naked out into the ocean to commit suicide.
section_header: Plot
text: Meanwhile, Billy, traumatized by his experiences at war, commits suicide by injecting air into his veins.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Naver is China's version of YouTube.
Wikipedia page: Naver (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Naver is also frequently referred to as 'the Google of South Korea'.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kerr was born and raised in Germany.
Wikipedia page: Deborah Kerr (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Hillhead, Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen Rose (née Smale) and Capt.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mount Rushmore National Memorial was designed by Gutzon Borglum.
Wikipedia page: Mount Rushmore National Memorial (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Michael Jackson is from the west coast of the United States.
Wikipedia page: Michael Jackson (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1958–1975: Early life and the Jackson 5
text: Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago, on August 29, 1958.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jennifer Lopez has been married two times and has been engaged to three other men she did not marry.
Wikipedia page: Jennifer Lopez (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: From February 22, 1997, to January 1998, she was married to Cuban waiter Ojani Noa.
section_header: Personal life
text: The couple postponed their nuptials indefinitely a day prior to the planned ceremony in September 2003, citing the media's interference with the event as the reason.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Euler lived in Austria for most of his childhood before moving to Berlin.
Wikipedia page: Leonhard Euler (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Soon after the birth of Leonhard, the Eulers moved from Basel to the town of Riehen, Switzerland, where Leonhard spent most of his childhood.
section_header: Summary
text: He spent most of his adult life in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in Berlin, then the capital of Prussia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Don Drysdale was a Jew.
Wikipedia page: Don Drysdale (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: When Walter Alston, the manager, came to the mound to remove him from the game, Drysdale said, "I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too." The Dodgers lost the game to the Minnesota Twins 8-2 but went on to win the Series 4 games to 3.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cartwright has a field rebranded in his honor.
Wikipedia page: Alexander Cartwright (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: In 1938, Makiki Field in Honolulu was renamed Cartwright Field.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ives's music became famous and recognized immediately.
Wikipedia page: Charles Ives (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His music was largely ignored during his early life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lili was a film about a girl's relationship with a carnival performer.
Wikipedia page: Lili (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Credit Mobilier of America scandal was based on a fake company that involved politicians and the Union Pacific.
Wikipedia page: Credit Mobilier of America scandal (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: First, a fraudulent company, Crédit Mobilier, was created by Union Pacific executives to greatly inflate construction costs.
section_header: Summary
text: The scandal negatively affected the careers of many politicians and nearly bankrupted Union Pacific.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry Ford's grandparents were from Europe.
Wikipedia page: Henry Ford (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His mother, Mary Ford (née Litogot; 1839–1876), was born in Michigan as the youngest child of Belgian immigrants; her parents died when she was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O'Herns.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Billy Southworth played for more than four teams in the majors.
Wikipedia page: Billy Southworth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As a player in 1913 and 1915 and from 1918 to 1929 for five big-league teams, Southworth took part in almost 1,200 games, fell just short of 1,300 hits and batted .297 lifetime.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: At the beginning of Bill Terry's professional career , he played pitcher.
Wikipedia page: Bill Terry (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career | Early years
text: He began his career as a pitcher, playing for two separate minor league teams, the Newnan Cowetas of the Georgia–Alabama League and the Dothan club of the FLAG League.
section_header: Playing career | Early years
text: Born in Atlanta, Terry made his professional baseball debut in 1915 at the age of 16.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Prior to graduation from NYU, she composed a piano piece for The Sopranos, marking her first TV work.
Wikipedia page: Lady Gaga (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1986–2005: Early life
text: Germanotta unsuccessfully auditioned for New York shows, though she did appear in a small role as a high school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos titled "The Telltale Moozadell".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Arc de Triomphe is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues.
Wikipedia page: Arc de Triomphe (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Although it is not named an Arc de Triomphe, it has been designed on the same model and in the perspective of the Arc de Triomphe.
section_header: History | Construction and late 19th century
text: The Arc de Triomphe is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Egypt's best known sport is soccer.
Wikipedia page: Egypt (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture | Sports
text: Football is the most popular national sport of Egypt.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Paul Muni was a talented actor in makeup, learning to cover his facial scars.
Wikipedia page: Paul Muni (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and career
text: As a teenager, he developed a skill in creating makeup, which enabled him to play much older characters.
section_header: Summary
text: His acting quality, usually playing a powerful character, such as the lead in Scarface (1932), was partly a result of his intense preparation for his parts, often immersing himself in study of the real character's traits and mannerisms.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller changing narrative states as the tone toward the end details a gruesome death and is more brutal.
Wikipedia page: Catch-22 (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: The sixth and final part (chapter 32 and on) remains in the story's present, but takes a much darker turn and spends the remaining chapters focusing on the serious and brutal nature of war and life in general.
section_header: Synopsis
text: The fourth (chapters 26–28) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part (chapter 28–32) returning again to the narrative present and maintaining the tone of the previous four.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Athenian statesman, orator, and general Alcibiades was known for taking siege to enemy cities.
Wikipedia page: Alcibiades (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He favored unconventional tactics, frequently winning cities over by treachery or negotiation rather than by siege.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The term "brand" comes from Italic languages.
Wikipedia page: Brand (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Etymology
text: The word, brand, derives from its original and current meaning as a firebrand, a burning piece of wood.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: James Naismith was orphaned early in life and lived with his aunt and uncle for many years.
Wikipedia page: James Naismith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: Orphaned early in his life, Naismith lived with his aunt and uncle for many years and attended grade school at Bennies Corners near Almonte.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The American company Grubhub was bought in 2020.
Wikipedia page: Grubhub (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: On June 9, 2020, Just Eat Takeaway, a European food delivery service, announced an agreement to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion in stock.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Anderson earned his epithet "Sparky" from being spunky on the field.
Wikipedia page: Sparky Anderson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: A radio announcer gave him the nickname "Sparky" in 1955 for his feisty play.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It is set in a narrative framework  of a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna.
Wikipedia page: Bhagavadgita (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide and charioteer Krishna.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: North Korea is considered a nonreligious region.
Wikipedia page: North Korea (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Society | Religion
text: Officially, North Korea is an atheist state.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Canopus is sized similarly to the Earth's Sun.
Wikipedia page: Canopus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has a luminosity over 10,000 times the luminosity of the Sun, is eight times as massive, and has expanded to 71 times the Sun's radius.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Washington Monument is a monument that was named after the iconic George Washington.
Wikipedia page: Washington Monument (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Rationale
text: At his death in 1799, he left a critical legacy: Washington was the unchallenged public icon of American military and civic patriotism.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bullet Rogan's first name was Charles and he only played for 1 baseball team.
Wikipedia page: Bullet Rogan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Charles Wilber "Bullet" Rogan, also known as "Bullet Joe" (July 28, 1893 – March 4, 1967), was an American pitcher and outfielder for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro baseball leagues from 1920 to 1938.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dan Brouthers was English descant.
Wikipedia page: Dan Brouthers (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Brouthers was born in Sylvan Lake, New York, to Michael and Annie Brooder, Catholic immigrants from Ireland; upon arriving in New York, Michael Brooder had been recruited to Dutchess County to work in open pit iron mines in the town of Beekman.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tom Cruise had his producer cut ties with him after his not well received public behaviour.
Wikipedia page: Tom Cruise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Producing | Break with Paramount
text: On August 22, 2006, Paramount Pictures announced it was ending its 14-year relationship with Cruise.
section_header: Career | Producing | Break with Paramount
text: In the Wall Street Journal, chairman of Viacom (Paramount's parent company) Sumner Redstone cited the economic damage to Cruise's value as an actor and producer from his controversial public behavior and views.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The members of the rock band The Police ended up as blonds when cast in an advertisement.
Wikipedia page: The Police (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | 1977: Formation
text: In February 1978, the band, desperate for money, was asked to do a commercial for Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum (directed by Tony Scott) on the condition they dye their hair blond.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Harmon Killebrew was called "The Killer" because of his last name and the way he destroyed batters when he pitched from the mound.
Wikipedia page: Harmon Killebrew (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Harmon Clayton Killebrew Jr. (; June 29, 1936 – May 17, 2011), nicknamed ’The Killer’ and ’Hammerin' Harmon’, was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mickey Rooney started his acting career at 6 years old.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Rooney (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Child actor
text: He made his first film appearance at age six in 1926, in the short Not to be Trusted.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Beatles were always called The Beatles.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1957–1963: Formation, Hamburg, and UK popularity
text: They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that another local group were already using the name.
section_header: History | 1957–1963: Formation, Hamburg, and UK popularity
text: They used this name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a brief tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer and fellow Liverpudlian Johnny Gentle.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vyasa is a main chartacter in this epic.
Wikipedia page: Mahabharata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Textual history and structure
text: The epic is traditionally ascribed to the sage Vyāsa, who is also a major character in the epic.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 7 World Trade Center refers to two seperate buildings at the same location, and the first building had more stories than the second.
Wikipedia page: 7 World Trade Center (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The original 7 World Trade Center was 47 stories tall, clad in red granite masonry, and occupied a trapezoidal footprint.
section_header: Summary
text: The building is 52 stories tall (plus one underground floor), making it the 28th-tallest in New York.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Absalom and Achitophel refers to a story in the bible.
Wikipedia page: Absalom and Achitophel (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679-1681).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Brittle stars can grew up new extremities to restore a lost one.
Wikipedia page: Echinodermata (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Use by humans
text: The arm regeneration potential of brittle stars is being studied in connection with understanding and treating neurodegenerative diseases in humans.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Buchanan presidency preceded that of Abraham Lincoln. 1865 civil war
Wikipedia page: James Buchanan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Presidency (1857–1861) | Inauguration
text: Buchanan was inaugurated on March 4, 1857, taking the oath of office from Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.
section_header: Summary
text: Just weeks after Lincoln was elected as Buchanan's successor, Southern states began seceding from the U.S., and the American Civil War started.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 2004 film Ray is about the ecology of manta rays.
Wikipedia page: Ray (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ray is a 2004 American biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" and "Where Is the Love?" were at number one setting records.
Wikipedia page: The Black Eyed Peas (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 2009–2011: The E.N.D, The Beginning and hiatus
text: On July 30, 2009, Billboard announced that the Black Eyed Peas set a record for the longest successive No. 1 chart run by a duo or group in the Billboard Hot 100's history.
section_header: Summary
text: Black Eyed Peas' first major hit was the 2003 single " Where Is the Love?" from Elephunk, which topped the charts in 13 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it spent seven weeks at number one and went on to become Britain's biggest-selling single of 2003.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A form of radiation X-rays was discovered by Nikola Tesla.
Wikipedia page: X-ray (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Discovery by Röntgen
text: On November 8, 1895, German physics professor Wilhelm Röntgen stumbled on X-rays while experimenting with Lenard tubes and Crookes tubes and began studying them.
section_header: History | Discovery by Röntgen
text: The name stuck, although (over Röntgen's great objections) many of his colleagues suggested calling them Röntgen rays.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bill Gates is one of the two richest people in the world as of 2020.
Wikipedia page: Bill Gates (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As of July 2020, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$111.8 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in the world, behind Bezos.
section_header: Personal life
text: In October 2017, Gates was surpassed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Purloined Letter is a story about blackmailing the queen that first earned the author twelve dollars.
Wikipedia page: The Purloined Letter (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: He has been blackmailing the queen.
section_header: Publication history
text: Poe earned $12 for its first printing.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Battle of the Bulge was a conflict in Europe at the end of World War ll.
Wikipedia page: Battle of the Bulge (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.
section_header: Summary
text: It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Erie canal has been in use since it's opening in October 1825.
Wikipedia page: Erie Canal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Ambiguity in name
text: More than half of the original Erie Canal was destroyed or abandoned at the time of construction of the New York State Barge Canal in the early 20th century.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Ten Commandments is a movie that went 1 for 7 at the Oscars.
Wikipedia page: The Ten Commandments (1956 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In 1957, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (John P. Fulton, A.S.C.).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Crucible was written based on people who had been accused of supporting communism in the U.S.
Wikipedia page: The Crucible (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Waiting for Godot displays heterosexual relationships only.
Wikipedia page: Waiting for Godot (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Interpretations | Sexual
text: Though the sexuality of Vladimir and Estragon is not always considered by critics, some see the two vagabonds as an ageing homosexual couple, who are worn out, with broken spirits, impotent and not engaging sexually any longer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A written work was released about Thelma & Louise.
Wikipedia page: Thelma & Louise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release | Accolades
text: The British Film Institute published a book about the film in 2000 as part of a Modern Classics series.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Beatles film featuring a banana-coated submersible was released in 1967.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1970–present: After the break-up | 1990s
text: In 1999, to coincide with the re-release of the 1968 film Yellow Submarine, an expanded soundtrack album, Yellow Submarine Songtrack, was issued.
section_header: Selected filmography
text: Fictionalised  A Hard Day's Night (1964) Fictionalised  A Hard Day's Night (1964) Help! (1965) Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Yellow Submarine (1968) (brief cameo)Documentaries and filmed performances
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Edict of Nantes was created to stop the religious conflicts in France.
Wikipedia page: Edict of Nantes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes), signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France  (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It is located in San Fransisco, California.
Wikipedia page: Erie Canal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Edict of Nantes lasted just a little more than a century.
Wikipedia page: Edict of Nantes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The later Edict of Fontainebleau, which revoked the Edict of Nantes in October 1685, was promulgated by Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV.
section_header: Summary
text: The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes), signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France  (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cuyler was bounced around between 8 teams during his career.
Wikipedia page: Kiki Cuyler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1921 until 1938.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In The Big Bang Theory, the stuff written by Sheldon on whiteboards was correct.
Wikipedia page: The Big Bang Theory (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Science consultants
text: so there's actual progress to the boards ... We worked hard to get all the science right." David Saltzberg, who has a Ph.D. in physics, has served as the science consultant for the show for six seasons and attends every taping.
section_header: Production | Science consultants
text: He was usually not needed during a taping unless a lot of science, and especially the whiteboard, was involved.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film, La La Land, was not filmed on physical film, as the director had wanted, but with a digital DSLR camera and edited to look like an old Hollywood film.
Wikipedia page: La La Land (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: It's Always Fair Weather. Consequently, the movie was shot on celluloid film (not digitally) with Panavision equipment in CinemaScope's 2.55:1 aspect ratio, but not in true CinemaScope as that technology is no longer available.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This was the first pope to make remarks about same sex unions being okay in the eyes of God.
Wikipedia page: Pope Benedict XVI (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Positions on morality and politics | Homosexuality | Same-sex marriage
text: Although he didn't mention the topic, his words were interpreted by news media as denunciations of same-sex marriage, with some sources adding that Benedict would have called it a threat to world peace similar to abortion and euthanasia.
section_header: Papacy: 2005–2013 | Teachings | "Dictatorship of relativism"
text: "In an address to a conference of the Diocese of Rome held at the basilica of St. John Lateran 6 June 2005, Benedict remarked on the issues of same sex marriage and abortion: The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man... from here it becomes all the more clear how contrary it is to human love, to the profound vocation of man and woman, to systematically close their union to the gift of life, and even worse to suppress or tamper with the life that is born.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland depicts the idea of predator and prey throughout the book.
Wikipedia page: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Writing style and themes | Eating and devouring
text: After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?", the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eat…I eat what I see" and so the riddle's solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater  –  a horrific image of mortality.
section_header: Writing style and themes | Eating and devouring
text: The animals of Wonderland are of particular interest, for Alice's relation to them shifts constantly because, as Lovell-Smith states, Alice's changes in size continually reposition her in the food chain, serving as a way to make her acutely aware of the ‘eat or be eaten’ attitude that permeates Wonderland.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Antonio Salazar considered his government of Portugal to be a kind of right-leaning nationalism.
Wikipedia page: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, Salazar's rule was conservative and nationalist in nature.
section_header: Summary
text: António de Oliveira Salazar (; Portuguese: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu dɨ oliˈvɐjɾɐ sɐlɐˈzaɾ]; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cate Blanchett is an actress who is considered influential and has won a few awards.
Wikipedia page: Cate Blanchett (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Time magazine named Blanchett one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and in 2018, she was ranked among the highest-paid actresses in the world.
section_header: Summary
text: She has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film Awards.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: White had most his success in the 1980s.
Wikipedia page: Barry White (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A two-time Grammy Award–winner known for his distinctive bass-baritone voice and romantic image, his greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with The Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring soul, funk, and disco songs such as his two biggest hits: " You're the First, the Last,
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Carl Hubbell main pitch was changeball.
Wikipedia page: Carl Hubbell (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hubbell's primary pitch was the screwball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Rape of the Lock is a poem about high burlesque and that sold only 2000 books.
Wikipedia page: The Rape of the Lock (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The book The Castle of Otranto was originally written in Italian.
Wikipedia page: The Castle of Otranto (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Literary elements | Gothic elements
text: The Castle of Otranto is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Safavid Dynasty was predominant in the Arabic countries.
Wikipedia page: Safavid dynasty (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Safavid dynasty had its origin in the Safavid order of Sufism, which was established in the city of Ardabil in the Iranian Azerbaijan region.
section_header: Summary
text: It was an Iranian dynasty of Kurdish origin, but during their rule they intermarried with Turkoman, Georgian, Circassian, and Pontic Greek dignitaries.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A few international movies are based from "On the Waterfront".
Wikipedia page: On the Waterfront (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations
text: The Indian films Kabzaa (1988) and Ghulam (1998) are inspired by On the Waterfront.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In July 2019, he was inducted into the Canada Walk of Fame.
Wikipedia page: James Naismith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: The University of Kansas constructed an $18 million building named the Debruce Center, which houses the rules and opened in March 2016.In July 2019, Naismith was inducted into the Canada Walk of Fame.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
Wikipedia page: Indira Gandhi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Assassination
text: Salma Sultan provided the first news of her assassination on Doordarshan's evening news on 31 October 1984, more than 10 hours after she was shot.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: There are more people who are not ethnically white that live in San Francisco than people who are white.
Wikipedia page: San Francisco (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics | Race, ethnicity, religion, and languages
text: As of the 2010 census, the ethnic makeup and population of San Francisco included: 390,387 whites (48%), 267,915 Asians (33%), 48,870 African Americans (6%), and others.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The American software company Adobe Inc. was started in a garage and has been criticized for spying on their customers.
Wikipedia page: Adobe Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Criticisms | Security
text: Observers noted that Adobe was spying on its customers by including spyware in the Creative Suite 3 software and quietly sending user data to a firm named Omniture.
section_header: Summary
text: Adobe Inc. ( ə-DOH-bee), is an American multinational computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tyler was the 10th president of the US.
Wikipedia page: John Tyler (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845 after briefly serving as the tenth vice president in 1841; he was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film with a worldwide total gross of $55,198,285.
Wikipedia page: Dallas Buyers Club (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Release | Box office
text: It grossed $27,900,000 in foreign countries including $8,755,794 of the United Kingdom, $2,761,258 of Australia, making a worldwide total gross of $55,198,285.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Scarlatti's burial site is obsolete.
Wikipedia page: Domenico Scarlatti (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career
text: He was buried at a convent there, in Madrid, but his grave no longer exists.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Desire Under the Elms is a movie about a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 named Emmett Till.
Wikipedia page: Desire Under the Elms (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A film version was produced in 1958, and there is an operatic setting by Edward Thomas.
section_header: Characters
text: Eben – He is twenty-five, tall and sinewy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Berlin Wall involved 3 European countries allied with either East or West Germany.
Wikipedia page: Berlin Wall (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Background | Post-war Germany
text: After the end of World War II in Europe, what remained of pre-war Germany west of the Oder-Neisse line was divided into four occupation zones (as per the Potsdam Agreement), each one controlled by one of the four occupying Allied powers: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Negative capacitances occur most frequently with semiconductors.
Wikipedia page: Capacitance (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Negative capacitance in semiconductor devices
text: Usually, capacitance in semiconductor devices is positive.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: "The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843 in which newspapers made "The Gold-Bug" Poe's most widely read short story during his lifetime.
Wikipedia page: The Gold Bug (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "The Gold-Bug" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The narration is about two groups of cousins.
Wikipedia page: Mahabharata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes and their successors.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Before he died , Simon Bolivar was unimpressed with the rewards that his lifelong efforts had yielded, and very pessimistic over his country.
Wikipedia page: Simon Bolivar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Final months and death
text: I blush to say this: Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, to the detriment of all the rest." Saying that "all who served the revolution have plowed the sea", Bolívar finally resigned the presidency on 27 April 1830, intending to leave the country for exile in Europe.
section_header: Final months and death
text: It is said that before Simón Bolívar had passed away, he had declared that "America is ungovernable.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Parthenon was restored in the 20th century after being built in the 5th century BC.
Wikipedia page: Parthenon (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Restoration
text: In 1975, the Greek government began a concerted effort to restore the Parthenon and other Acropolis structures.
section_header: Summary
text: It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Yelp has a category of reviewers that matter more than the rest of the users generating reviews, and they refuse to tell anyone how they are chosen beyond the nomination process.
Wikipedia page: Yelp (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Community
text: Yelp does not disclose how the Yelp Elite are selected.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In the novel A Room with a View, Cecil is a pretentious snob.
Wikipedia page: A Room with a View (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary | Part two
text: Cecil is a sophisticated London aesthete whose rank and class make him a desirable match, despite his despising country society; he is a rather comic figure who is snobbish and gives himself pretentious airs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Maurice Ravel is a Polish national.
Wikipedia page: Maurice Ravel (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Joseph Maurice Ravel (French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Britney Spears's grandmother is British.
Wikipedia page: Britney Spears (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1981–1997: Early life and career beginnings
text: Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Portell, was English (born in London), and one of Spears's maternal great-great-grandfathers was Maltese.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Freddie Mercury wa often seen close by his partner, Jim Hutton during public appearances.
Wikipedia page: Freddie Mercury (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Sexual orientation
text: During his career, Mercury's flamboyant stage performances sometimes led journalists to allude to his sexuality.
section_header: Personal life | Sexual orientation
text: During public events in the 1980s, Mercury often kept a distance from his partner, Jim Hutton.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tris Speaker was a shortstop and an alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Wikipedia page: Tris Speaker (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Considered one of the greatest offensive and defensive center fielders in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), he compiled a career batting average of .345 (sixth all-time).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Wembley stadium was used for 3 American football matches in 2014.
Wikipedia page: Wembley Stadium (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Sports | American football
text: Another first was recorded in 2014 as three regular season NFL games were played at Wembley.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: They got named among the 20th century's 100 most important people by Time magazine.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Time magazine named them among the 20th century's 100 most important people.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: While under control of Britain, New York was a free city, meaning no slave-owning allowed.
Wikipedia page: New York City (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | British colony
text: It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, the highest percentage outside Charleston, South Carolina.
section_header: History | British colony
text: New York grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule in the early 1700s.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Shanghai Tower's elevators move close to 50mph.
Wikipedia page: Shanghai Tower (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the world's second-tallest building by height to architectural top and it shares the record (along with the Ping An Finance Center) of having the world's highest observation deck within a building or structure at 562 m. It had the world's second-fastest elevators at a top speed of 20.5 metres per second (74 km/h; 46 mph) until 2017,  when it was surpassed by the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, with a top speed of 21 metres per second (76 km/h; 47 mph).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Huawei is an Asian company that manufactures smartphones.
Wikipedia page: Huawei (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Products and services | Phones
text: Huawei is the second-biggest smartphone maker in the world, after Samsung, as of the first quarter of 2019.
section_header: Summary
text: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (; Chinese: 华为; pinyin: Huáwéi) is a Chinese multinational technology company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Harding was a Republican and died in 1923.
Wikipedia page: Warren G. Harding (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.
section_header: Rising politician (1897–1919) | Ohio state leader
text: Harding, as a loyal Republican, supported Taft.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: When Texas was brought into the United States by being annexed, its former owner refused to release its claim.
Wikipedia page: Free Soil Party (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Formation of the Free Soil Party | Wilmot Proviso
text: Following the annexation of Texas in 1845, President Polk began preparations for a potential war with Mexico, which still regarded Texas as a part of its republic.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mickey Rooney was born in Long Island.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Rooney (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Rooney was born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr. on September 23, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of vaudevillians
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, Jo goes to Europe with her aunt.
Wikipedia page: Little Women (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary | Part Two
text: Amy is chosen over Jo to go on a European tour with her aunt.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Fleetwood Mac's singer dated and then broke up with their bassist.
Wikipedia page: Fleetwood Mac (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The band went through personal turmoil while recording the album, as both the romantic partnerships in the band (one being John and Christine McVie, and the other being Buckingham and Nicks) separated while continuing to make music together.
section_header: Summary
text: Fleetwood Mac soon asked Buckingham to be their new lead guitarist, and Buckingham agreed on condition that Nicks would also join the band.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Netflix used to arrive in the mail.
Wikipedia page: Netflix (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings abandoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the initial DVD rental business.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The English town of Kenilworth is known for its row of older buildings along High Street, which offer some of the finest examples of architecture in the region.
Wikipedia page: Kenilworth (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The town is noted architecturally for the extensive ruins of Kenilworth Castle, the ruins of Kenilworth Abbey in Abbey Fields park, St Nicholas's Parish Church, and the town's clock tower.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In 2014, Queen Elsa became one of the most popular names after the release of Frozen.
Wikipedia page: Frozen (2013 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Cultural impact
text: In a 2014 mid-year report of the 100 most-used baby names conducted by BabyCenter, Elsa was ranked 88; it was the first time the name had appeared on the site's chart.
Verdict: REFUTES