tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: It is a tragic play.
Wikipedia page: Arms and the Man (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ode to a Nightingale is a film that was released in 1819.
Wikipedia page: Ode to a Nightingale (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1980 movie Fame was inspired by a musical in the 70's.
Wikipedia page: Fame (1980 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Fame is a 1980 American teen musical drama film directed by Alan Parker.
section_header: Summary
text: Producer David De Silva conceived the premise in 1976, partially inspired by the musical A Chorus Line.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Osborne "Ozzie" Smith was a baseball player for the New York Yankees.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American baseball player Carl Yastrzemski wrote an autobiography.
Wikipedia page: Carl Yastrzemski (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Major League career | Retirement
text: Yastrzemski retired in 1983 at the age of 44, although he stated in his autobiography
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Jolson Story is a 1946 American Technicolor musical biography film which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson, with the sequel called Jolson Sings Again was released in 1959.
Wikipedia page: The Jolson Story (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A sequel called Jolson Sings Again was released in 1949.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The American singer, songwriter and actress Donna Summer apologized in 1989 for allegedly made homophobic remarks during the AIDS epidemic.
Wikipedia page: Donna Summer (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress.
section_header: Controversy
text: Summer publicly denied that she had ever made any such comments, and in a letter to the AIDS campaign group ACT UP in 1989 said it was "a terrible misunderstanding." In explaining why she did not respond to ACT UP sooner, Summer stated "I was unknowingly protected by those around me from the bad press and hate letters.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In the movie An Officer and a Gentleman, Sid dies of a gunshot wound.
Wikipedia page: An Officer and a Gentleman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: After telling him the pregnancy was a lie as well, Sid checks into a motel and hangs himself.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kidman has been married 2 times.
Wikipedia page: Nicole Kidman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Relationships and children
text: Kidman has been married twice: first to actor Tom Cruise, and later to country singer Keith Urban.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Big Bang Theory aired for 279 episodes.
Wikipedia page: The Big Bang Theory (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007 and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast a total of 279 episodes over twelve seasons.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hong Kong American actor Bruce Lee was a child actor and began teaching martial arts in college.
Wikipedia page: Bruce Lee (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Lee Jun-fan (Chinese: 李振藩; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), commonly known as Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍), was a Hong Kong American actor, director,  martial artist, martial arts instructor and philosopher.
section_header: Summary
text: Lee moved to the United States at the age of 18 to receive his higher education at the University of Washington in Seattle, and it was during this time that he began teaching martial arts.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Halladay died less than five years after announcing his retirement from baseball.
Wikipedia page: Roy Halladay (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After the 2013 season, he announced his retirement as the active major league leader in complete games, with 67.
section_header: Summary
text: On November 7, 2017, Halladay died when his ICON A5 amphibious plane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The speech by John Milton Areopagitica is a defense of free speech at the height of the English Civil War.
Wikipedia page: Areopagitica (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bill Mazeroski is an American former baseball second baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956–1972, and took part in 10 All-Star Games and was a Gold Glove Award winner eight times.
Wikipedia page: Bill Mazeroski (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: William Stanley Mazeroski (born September 5, 1936) is an American former baseball second baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956–1972 and hit one of the epic home runs in major league history, a dramatic ninth-inning blast that decided the 1960 World Series and remains the only walk-off homer in a seventh game.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel Le Rouge et le Noir is a satire about 19th century England.
Wikipedia page: The Red and the Black (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: ​[lə ʁuʒ e l(ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830.
section_header: Background
text: The adventures of the hero satirize early 19th-century French society, accusing the aristocracy and Catholic clergy of being hypocritical and materialistic, foretelling the radical changes that will soon depose them from their leading roles in French society.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Zootopia was not well received by the public.
Wikipedia page: Zootopia (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Accolades
text: The film was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2016, and won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Critics Choice Movie Award and Annie Award for Best Animated Feature Film, as well as receiving a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film (which eventually lost to the aforementioned Kubo).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that categorized four groups based on race.
Wikipedia page: Apartheid (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Institution | Legislation
text: NP leaders argued that South Africa did not comprise a single nation, but was made up of four distinct racial groups: white, black, Coloured and Indian.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry I's brother Robert wanted to be king of England.
Wikipedia page: Henry I of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Robert, who invaded in 1101, disputed Henry's control of England; this military campaign ended in a negotiated settlement that confirmed Henry as king.
section_header: Early reign, 1100–06 | Treaty of Alton, 1101–02
text: By early 1101, Henry's new regime was established and functioning, but many of the Anglo-Norman elite still supported his brother Robert, or would be prepared to switch sides if Robert appeared likely to gain power in England.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Yelp gets mixed reviews from smaller business owners.
Wikipedia page: Yelp (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversy and litigation | Alleged unfair business practices
text: Many business owners have said that Yelp salespeople have offered to remove or suppress negative reviews if they purchase advertising.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Macbeth was not well receieved in the 1800s.
Wikipedia page: Macbeth (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Performance history | Restoration and eighteenth century
text: Ferdinand Fleck, notable as the first German actor to present Shakespeare's tragic roles in their fullness, played Macbeth at the Berlin National Theatre from 1787.
section_header: Performance history | Nineteenth century
text: Robert Elliston, for example, produced a popular adaptation of Macbeth in 1809 at the Royal Circus described in its publicity as "this matchless piece of pantomimic and choral performance", which circumvented the illegality of speaking Shakespeare's words through mimed action, singing, and doggerel verse written by J. C. Cross.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is the largest energy particle collider and machine 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.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cecil Rhodes was the founder of Rhodesia and President of the Cape Colony.
Wikipedia page: Cecil Rhodes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cecil John Rhodes  (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate, and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The new rings of Uranus in the Solar System are part of a system heating up the hottest planet using a network of spinning energy.
Wikipedia page: Uranus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Climate
text: The lowest temperature recorded in Uranus' tropopause is 49 K (−224 °C; −371 °F), making Uranus the coldest planet in the Solar System.
section_header: Summary
text: It has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of 49 K (−224 °C; −371 °F), and has a complex, layered cloud structure with water thought to make up the lowest clouds and methane the uppermost layer of clouds.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jack Nicholson's biological parentage may have included European royalty.
Wikipedia page: Jack Nicholson (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jack's Life that Latvian-born Eddie King (originally Edgar A. Kirschfeld), June's manager, may have been Nicholson's biological father, rather than Furcillo.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A Study in Scarlet was originally a crime film.
Wikipedia page: A Study in Scarlet (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Orion has a prism like shape.
Wikipedia page: Orion (constellation) (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Features
text: Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: White caught the most balls in 70s baseball.
Wikipedia page: Deacon White (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The outstanding catcher of the 1870s during baseball's barehanded period, he caught more games than any other player during the decade, and was a major figure on five consecutive championship teams from 1873 to 1877 – three in the National Association (NA), in which he played throughout its five-year existence from 1871 to 1875, and two in the National League (NL), which was formed as the first fully recognized major league in 1876, partially as a result of White and three other stars moving from the powerhouse Boston Red Stockings to the Chicago White Stockings.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bobby Cox played for the Yankees at the beginning of his MLB career.
Wikipedia page: Bobby Cox (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: Instead, he was traded to the New York Yankees on December 7, 1967.
section_header: Playing career
text: As a player, Cox originally signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was never able to make the Dodgers' major league team.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jennifer Jones was selected and trained to be famous, including having her moniker changed from it's original 'Phylis Lee Isely', to something more palatable to the public.
Wikipedia page: Jennifer Jones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | 1940–1948: Career beginnings
text: She was carefully groomed for stardom and given a new name: Jennifer Jones.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope Gregory I became died in 604 due to at the age of 70..
Wikipedia page: Pope Gregory I (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pope Gregory Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Chiang Kai-shek was educated in Japan.
Wikipedia page: Chiang Kai-shek (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Education in Japan
text: He began his military training at the Baoding Military Academy in 1906, the same year Japan left its bimetallic currency standard, devaluing its yen.
section_header: Education in Japan
text: During his first visit to Japan to pursue a military career from April 1906 to later that year, he describes himself having strong nationalistic feelings with a desire among other things to, 'expel the Manchu Qing and to restore China'.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Written by Nick Fury and directed by Joss Whedon Avengers: Age of Ultron was well received.
Wikipedia page: Avengers: Age of Ultron (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: All the mammals are Echinodermatas.
Wikipedia page: Echinodermata (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Taxonomy and evolution
text: All echinoderms are marine and nearly all are benthic.
section_header: Summary
text: Echinoderm is the common name given to any member of the phylum Echinodermata (from Ancient Greek, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin") of marine animals.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hafey received his nickname because he was very handsome and attracted many women to him.
Wikipedia page: Chick Hafey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Charles James "Chick" Hafey (February 12, 1903 – July 2, 1973) was an American player in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: County is a term for land and not all countries use this term.
Wikipedia page: County (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes, in certain modern nations.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Graduate is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film about Brad and Ben's adventures after college in California
Wikipedia page: The Graduate (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: After earning his bachelor's degree from an East Coast college, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents' Pasadena, California home.
section_header: Summary
text: The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then falls in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Of Mice and Men's adapted play was performed over 200 times.
Wikipedia page: Of Mice and Men (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Adaptations | Stage
text: Running for 207 performances, it starred Wallace Ford as George and Broderick Crawford as Lennie.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Fillmore was the first participant of the Whig Party.
Wikipedia page: Millard Fillmore (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States (1850–1853), the last to be a member of the Whig Party
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Robert Schumann was the first kid from his parents.
Wikipedia page: Robert Schumann (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Early life
text: Schumann was born in Zwickau, in the Kingdom of Saxony (today Central Germany), the fifth and last child of Johanna Christiane (née Schnabel) and August Schumann.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Congress of Vienna brought stability to European countries.
Wikipedia page: Congress of Vienna (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Later criticism
text: The Congress of Vienna was the first of a series of international meetings that came to be known as the Concert of Europe, which was an attempt to forge a peaceful balance of power in Europe.
section_header: Summary
text: However, others praise it for having created relatively long-term stability and peaceful conditions in most of Europe.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sayonara 1957 American Technicolor drama film that earned $10.5 million in rentals in North America and $25 million overseas, and with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.2/10
Wikipedia page: Sayonara (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical reception
text: The film earned $10.5 million in rentals in North America and $5 million overseas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cloud Gate can be described as a tourist attraction.
Wikipedia page: Cloud Gate (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
section_header: Summary
text: Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film Chicago got six oscars.
Wikipedia page: Chicago (2002 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Critically lauded, Chicago won six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture, the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver!
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Pride of the Yankees is about a Harvard student that wants to play basketball.
Wikipedia page: The Pride of the Yankees (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Lou Gehrig (Cooper) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother (Elsa Janssen) wants him to study hard and become an engineer, but the young man has a gift for baseball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Garrison founded an anti-slavery newspaper.
Wikipedia page: William Lloyd Garrison (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is best known for his widely-read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator, which he founded in 1831 and published in Boston until hereditary slavery in the United States was abolished by Constitutional amendment in 1865.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: They were the first rock band to to be on a stamp.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Awards and achievements
text: In 2007, the Beatles became the first band to feature on a series of UK postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel follows characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg.
Wikipedia page: The Great Gatsby (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Flipkart is an online shoe store, catering to tennis shoe collectors and enthusiasts.
Wikipedia page: Flipkart (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American Baseball player Carl Hubbell played for the New York Giants and the Detroit Tigers.
Wikipedia page: Carl Hubbell (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Minor league career
text: Hubbell was originally signed by the Detroit Tigers and was invited to spring training in 1926.
section_header: Major league career
text: At the time of his death, he was one of the last New York Giants still active in some capacity in baseball, and the last player from the McGraw era who was still active in the game.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harry Wright played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, but is also known as a manager who offered his professional baseball players a higher paying wage than other blue collar workers.
Wikipedia page: Harry Wright (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Wright was also the first to make baseball into a business by paying his players up to seven times the pay of the average working man.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Satie was a Belgian composer.
Wikipedia page: Erik Satie (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (UK: , US: , French: [eʁik sati]; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A refractive index cannot be less than 1.
Wikipedia page: Refractive index (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Typical values | Refractive index below unity
text: According to the theory of relativity, no information can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, but this does not mean that the refractive index cannot be less than 1.
section_header: Microscopic explanation
text: It corresponds to a permittivity less than 1, which causes the refractive index to be also less than unity and the phase velocity of light greater than the speed of light in vacuum c (note that the signal velocity is still less than c, as discussed above).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In addition to a number of western European countries, Cal Ripken Jr's heritage includes Polish.
Wikipedia page: Cal Ripken Jr. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He has German, English, and Irish ancestry.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Babur was a son of Timur.
Wikipedia page: Babur (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Babur was born in Andijan in the Fergana Valley (in present-day Uzbekistan): the eldest son of Umar Sheikh Mirza (1456–1494, governor of Fergana from 1469 to 1494) and a great-great grandson of Timur (1336–1405).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Howl was printed in the 1950s.
Wikipedia page: Howl (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Marcus Garvey was from the Caribbeans.
Wikipedia page: Marcus Garvey (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Wars of the Roses was about taking over the Tower of Warwick.
Wikipedia page: Wars of the Roses (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, represented by a red rose, and the House of York, represented by a white rose.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bismarck's body was laid to rest in the Bismarck Mausoleum.
Wikipedia page: Otto von Bismarck (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Downfall | Death
text: He died just after midnight on 30 July 1898, at the age of eighty-three in Friedrichsruh, where he is entombed in the Bismarck Mausoleum.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Collins has three books about his life.
Wikipedia page: Phil Collins (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Books
text: Yet Tour (2019) 2012: The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey 2016: Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Charles became King to 2 countries due to a death in the family.
Wikipedia page: Charles I of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He became heir apparent to the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1612 on the death of his elder brother Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty has five siblings.
Wikipedia page: Beauty and the Beast (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot | Villeneuve's version
text: A widower merchant lives in a mansion with his six children (three sons and three daughters).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Caligula was of sane mind and body.
Wikipedia page: Caligula (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Health
text: All surviving sources, except Pliny the Elder, characterize Caligula as insane.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Nehru was the second ever Prime Minister of India.
Wikipedia page: Jawaharlal Nehru (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jawaharlal Nehru (; Hindi: [ˈdʒəʋaːɦərˈlaːl ˈneːɦru] (listen); 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian independence activist and, subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India, as well as a central figure in Indian politics both before and after independence.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Glass Menagerie is a theatrical story presented as the recollections the main character is sharing about his female relatives.
Wikipedia page: The Glass Menagerie (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: The play is introduced to the audience by Tom, the narrator and protagonist, as a memory play based on his recollection of his mother Amanda and his sister Laura.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rickey's burial spot is in Missouri and is near the Missouri Valley.
Wikipedia page: Branch Rickey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: Rickey's grave overlooks the Scioto Valley, about three miles from his boyhood home in Stockdale, Ohio.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jones is from Jacksonville.
Wikipedia page: Chipper Jones (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Chipper Jones was born in DeLand, Florida, on April 24, 1972.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was the manager of the Chicago Cubs.
Wikipedia page: Pie Traynor (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Managing career
text: Traynor became the Pirates' player-manager during the 1934 season.
section_header: Managing career
text: He retired as an active player after the 1937 season, but continued as the Pirates' manager.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American baseball player Charlie Gehringer was ambidextrous.
Wikipedia page: Charlie Gehringer (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Overview
text: Widely regarded as one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Gehringer, who batted left-handed and threw with his right, compiled a .320 batting average and had seven seasons with more than 200 hits.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Many would say that Amsterdam and Venice, Italy have a lot in common.
Wikipedia page: Amsterdam (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Found within the province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Chichen Itza is a tourist location in western Mexico.
Wikipedia page: Chichen Itza (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Location
text: Chichen Itza is located in the eastern portion of Yucatán state in Mexico.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vidura's parents are Vyasa and a maid and he is one of the smartest characters in the Mahabharata.
Wikipedia page: Mahabharata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis | The Pandava and Kaurava princes
text: He is born healthy and grows up to be one of the wisest characters in the Mahabharata.
section_header: Synopsis | The Pandava and Kaurava princes
text: Vyasa fathers a third son, Vidura, by the maid.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ozzie Smith opened a youth sports academy in 1990 that closed in 1996 after a fire.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Post-playing career
text: Of those businesses the youth academy remains in operation, with the restaurant having closed in 2010 after changing ownership and locations once.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The idea of inception is purely a product of the writer behind the movie, and has no basis in real persuasive theory.
Wikipedia page: Persuasion (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Theories | Conditioning theories
text: Conditioning plays a huge part in the concept of persuasion.
section_header: Theories | Conditioning theories
text: It is more often about leading someone into taking certain actions of their own, rather than giving direct commands.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It is located in Turkey.
Wikipedia page: Hagia Sophia (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: the former Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal cathedral, later an Ottoman imperial mosque and now a museum (Ayasofya Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mickey was known as one of the best pitchers in baseball history and was known for his competitive nature.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Cochrane (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cochrane was considered one of the best catchers in baseball history and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Sorrows of Young Werther was written in less than six weeks.
Wikipedia page: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five-and-a-half weeks of intensive writing in January–March 1774.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ted Simmons worked for the Braves as both a player and a scout.
Wikipedia page: Ted Simmons (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Baseball executive and coaching career
text: Simmons rejoined the Braves in October 2015, as a scout.
section_header: Playing career
text: He spent three seasons with the Braves as a utility player and pinch hitter before retiring as a player in 1988 at the age of 38.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Flo Rida has announced he is working on his fifth album.
Wikipedia page: Flo Rida (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 2014–present: My House and upcoming fifth studio album
text: In July 2017, he declared in an interview that his fifth album is still in the works and that it's 70 percent finished.
section_header: Life and career | 2014–present: My House and upcoming fifth studio album
text: On April 8, he announced he was "88% done".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Wahlberg's first movie as an actor was Planet of the Apes.
Wikipedia page: Mark Wahlberg (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Wahlberg transitioned from music to acting, with his screen debut in Renaissance Man (1994) and his first starring role in Fear (1996).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Satanic Verses is Rushdie's fifth novel based on true events from al-Waqidi, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta.
Wikipedia page: The Satanic Verses (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mary Shelley came upon the idea for this story after her family decided to write ghost stories to pass the time.
Wikipedia page: Frankenstein (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Composition
text: "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things".
section_header: Composition
text: " During one evening in the middle of summer, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mahatma Gandhi was arrested and put in prison multiple times while he was in the India and Australia.
Wikipedia page: Mahatma Gandhi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harry Potter isn't allowed in some areas becaue it is thought to go against the areas beliefs.
Wikipedia page: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, along with the rest of the Harry Potter series, has been attacked by some religious groups and banned in some countries because of accusations that the novels promote witchcraft under the guise of a heroic, moral story.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Walter Johnson played baseball and spent over 20 years with the Baltimore Orioles.
Wikipedia page: Walter Johnson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played his entire 21-year baseball career for the Washington Senators (1907–1927).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sunset Boulevard goes northeast to downtown LA.
Wikipedia page: Sunset Boulevard (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
section_header: Geography
text: From Downtown Los Angeles, the boulevard heads northwest, to Hollywood, through which it travels due west for several miles before it bends southwest towards the ocean.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The soundtrack to Goodfellas turned out to be a happy accident because Scorsese mainly just focused on including music he liked from his childhood.
Wikipedia page: Goodfellas (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Soundtrack
text: While there is no incidental score as such in the film, Scorsese chose songs for the soundtrack that he felt obliquely commented on the scene or the characters.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Crucible is a 1953 novel written by Arthur Miller depicting early settlers in Salem, MA and puritan colonists of Massachusetts.
Wikipedia page: The Crucible (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: William Howard Taft's dad was a financier in Ohio.
Wikipedia page: William Howard Taft (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Electric fields require an ongoing differential generating voltage, as found in a battery, to exist.
Wikipedia page: Electric field (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: On an atomic scale, the electric field is responsible for the attractive force between the atomic nucleus and electrons that holds atoms together, and the forces between atoms
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In addition to acting Jane Alexander also considered other school subjects that would serve as a back up plan.
Wikipedia page: Jane Alexander (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Encouraged by her father to go to college before embarking on an acting career, Alexander attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she concentrated on theater, but also studied mathematics with an eye toward computer programming, in the event that she failed as an actress.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Second Bank of the United States was the first official bank after the fire of 1822.
Wikipedia page: Second Bank of the United States (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Second Bank of the United States, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States during its 20-year charter from February 1816 to January 1836.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Polish is the only spoken language in Poland, and deaf communities use Polish Sign Language belonging to the German family of Sign Languages.
Wikipedia page: Poland (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics | Languages
text: Polish is the only official and predominant spoken language in Poland, but it is also used throughout the world by Polish minorities in other countries as well as being one of the official languages of the European Union.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charles Radbourn messed up his arm when he fell down stairs before a game in New York.
Wikipedia page: Charles Radbourn (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early baseball career
text: He played in six games, batted .143, and never pitched an inning, but practiced so hard he developed a sore shoulder and was released.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kelley played for the Boston Doves in 1908.
Wikipedia page: Joe Kelley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He returned to the NL with Cincinnati Reds (1902–1906) and Boston Doves (1908).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kenny G. has garnered an immense quantity of dislike by more  competent instrumentalists and fans.
Wikipedia page: Kenny G (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Criticism
text: Kenny G has attracted significant criticism from mainstream jazz musicians and enthusiasts.
section_header: Criticism
text: "Kenny G's 1999 single "What a Wonderful World" was criticized for its overdubbing of Louis Armstrong's recording.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Liverpool's stadium was remodeled to be able to accommodate around  54 thousand spectators.
Wikipedia page: Liverpool F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Stadium
text: When construction was completed on the new Main stand the capacity of Anfield was increased to 54,074.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Istanbul was known as Thermopylae and was founded by the named of Byzantion.
Wikipedia page: Istanbul (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: [isˈtanbuɫ] (listen)), formerly known as Byzantium and Constantinople, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural and historic center.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Somebody once held a title for having jumped off of the Towers.
Wikipedia page: Petronas Towers (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History and architecture | Notable events
text: On 15 April 1999, Felix Baumgartner set the world record for BASE jumping (since broken) by jumping off a window cleaning crane on the Petronas Towers.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Talmud is a source of Islamic law and translates to "instruct."
Wikipedia page: Talmud (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Talmud (; Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד‎) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sam Rice was an American catcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963.
Wikipedia page: Sam Rice (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Edgar Charles "Sam" Rice (February 20, 1890 – October 13, 1974) was an American pitcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Seattle, a city in the state of Washington, has rebuilt after several major natural disasters including a major flood in 2001.
Wikipedia page: Seattle (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Post-war years: aircraft and software
text: The city was further shaken by the Mardi Gras Riots in 2001, and then literally shaken the following day by the Nisqually earthquake.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the character of Esmerelda is someone who has been married before.
Wikipedia page: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Characters | Major
text: Esmeralda (born Agnes) is a beautiful 16-year-old Gypsy street dancer who is naturally compassionate and kind.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Elizabeth I was the first of the four monarchs for the House of Windsor.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth I (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The largest amounts of purple quartz are located in Germany.
Wikipedia page: Quartz (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Varieties (according to color) | Amethyst
text: Amethyst is a form of quartz that ranges from a bright vivid violet to dark or dull lavender shade.
section_header: Varieties (according to color) | Amethyst
text: The world's largest deposits of amethysts can be found in Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Russia, France, Namibia and Morocco.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The monument Dome of the Rock is roughly hexagonal.
Wikipedia page: Dome of the Rock (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Original Umayyad construction
text: The initial octagonal structure of the Dome of the Rock and its round wooden dome had basically the same shape as is does today.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kamehameha V's fiancee adopted his niece.
Wikipedia page: Kamehameha V (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Throughout his life he would have a deep dislike for this tradition as it could be later seen by his anger at his half-sister Ruth Keelikolani giving away her second son Keolaokalani to Bernice Pauahi Bishop.
section_header: Early life
text: He was betrothed to Bernice Pauahi at birth, but she chose to marry American Charles Reed Bishop instead.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Juventus Football Club is in Brazil and was started in 1897.
Wikipedia page: Juventus F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Nicknamed La Vecchia Signora (The Old Lady), the club was founded in 1897 by a group of students from Turin.
section_header: Summary
text: Juventus Football Club (from Latin: iuventūs, "youth"; Italian pronunciation: [juˈvɛntus]), colloquially known as Juventus and Juve (pronounced [ˈjuːve]), is a professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Aaron Copland was born in American and did his most known work when he was in his 30s and 40s.
Wikipedia page: Aaron Copland (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Aaron Copland (, KOHP-lənd; November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.
section_header: Summary
text: He is best known for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessible style often referred to as "populist" and which the composer labeled his "vernacular" style.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in the United States in the 18th century and was in the railroad business.
Wikipedia page: Cornelius Vanderbilt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.
section_header: Early years
text: Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Staten Island, New York on May 27, 1794 to Cornelius van Derbilt and Phebe Hand.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An Essay on Criticism is a book about a man who had a very bad upbringing.
Wikipedia page: Essay on Criticism (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1985 novel The Cider House Rules was based on the author John Irving's stepfather.
Wikipedia page: The Cider House Rules (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Background
text: The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father (whom he never met), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This treaty was the earliest treaty recorded by a camera.
Wikipedia page: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is considered the first diplomatic treaty ever filmed.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ted Williams was born is Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Wikipedia page: Ted Williams (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Williams was born in San Diego on August 30, 1918, and named Theodore Samuel Williams after former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lenovo Group sponsors the National Football League's computers and continues to do so.
Wikipedia page: Lenovo Group (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Marketing and sponsorships | NFL
text: Lenovo's sponsorship will last at least three years.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Church contains a spot where Jesus was executed.
Wikipedia page: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The church contains, according to traditions dating back to at least the fourth century, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, where he was buried and resurrected.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: There are many Chinatowns worldwide.
Wikipedia page: Chinatown (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Middle East.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kai-shek was born in the US and participated in the Civil War.
Wikipedia page: Chiang Kai-shek (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih and Jiang Jieshi,  was a Chinese nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Francis Poulenc, a French composer and pianist, publicly disregarded the gramophone as gimmicky.
Wikipedia page: Francis Poulenc (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Music | Recordings
text: Poulenc was among the composers who recognised in the 1920s the important role that the gramophone would play in the promotion of music.
section_header: Summary
text: He was among the first composers to see the importance of the gramophone, and he recorded extensively from 1928 onwards.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charlie Sheen is not known for having any controversial actions or opinions.
Wikipedia page: Charlie Sheen (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversy | September 11 attacks
text: On September 8, 2009, he appealed to President Barack Obama to set up a new investigation into the attacks.
section_header: Controversy | Anti-vaccination
text: Sheen is staunchly opposed to vaccinations.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jack Chesbro marriage to a women whose named rhymed with able.
Wikipedia page: Jack Chesbro (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Chesbro married Mabel Suttleworth of Conway, Massachusetts, in 1896.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Simon was a powerful politician for Tobago and Trinidad that helped lead it to independence from Spain.
Wikipedia page: Simón Bolívar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: iv-ər, -⁠ar also US:  BOH-liv-ar) and also colloquially as El Libertador,  or the Liberator, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Feller passed away at the age of 92.
Wikipedia page: Bob Feller (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An eight-time All-Star, Feller was ranked 36th on Sporting News's list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was named the publication's "greatest pitcher of his time".
section_header: Later life
text: On December 15, Feller died of complications from leukemia at 92.
Verdict: SUPPORTS