tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Hugh Duffy was worked in a munitions factory before becoming a baseball player.
Wikipedia page: Hugh Duffy (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He was a textile mill worker who had taken up baseball as a semipro for weekend diversion.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In 2014, Rakuten, a Japanese electronic online company banned all products that included whale, ivory, and dolphin.
Wikipedia page: Rakuten (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Criticism
text: In July 2017, Rakuten announced that it was also banning ivory sales on its sites.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The author of the book, Tender is the Night is from the United States.
Wikipedia page: Tender is the Night (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Tender is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jack Nicholson once smashed a man's automobile with sports equipment, then payed him off with half a million dollars.
Wikipedia page: Jack Nicholson (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Assault charge
text: After accusing the other man of cutting him off in traffic, Nicholson used a golf club to bash the roof and windshield of Blank's car.
section_header: Personal life | Assault charge
text: Charges were dropped after Nicholson apologized to Blank, and the two reached an undisclosed settlement, which included a reported $500,000 check from Nicholson.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Erik Satie was a French writer and pianist  who had income from his work in his early years.
Wikipedia page: Erik Satie (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Montmartre
text: In 1895 he inherited some money, allowing him to have more of his writings printed, and to change from wearing a priest-like habit to being the "Velvet Gentleman".
section_header: Life | Move to Arcueil
text: In his later years, Satie would reject all his cabaret music as vile and against his nature, but for the time being, it was an income.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hubert joined the National League for baseball in 1875, only four years after its creation.
Wikipedia page: William Hulbert (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography
text: A backer of the Chicago White Stockings baseball club of the National Association from its inception in 1871, Hulbert became an officer of the club in 1874 when it resumed play after being forced to sit out two seasons due to the Great Chicago Fire and assumed the presidency the next year.
section_header: Summary
text: William Ambrose Hulbert (October 23, 1832 – April 10, 1882) was one of the founders of the National League, recognized as baseball's first major league, and was also the president of the Chicago White Stockings franchise.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jim Rice was an eight-time American League (AL) All-Star who led the league in home runs three times, RBIs and slugging percentage twice each.
Wikipedia page: Jim Rice (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rice was an eight-time American League (AL) All-Star and was named the AL's Most Valuable Player in 1978 after becoming the first major league player in 19 years to hit for 400 total bases.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John Adams, the American composer, won the Pulitzer Prize for music, the Erasmus Prize and the Harvard Arts Medal despite his work being accused of antisemitism.
Wikipedia page: John Adams (composer) (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical reception | Klinghoffer controversy
text: The opera The Death of Klinghoffer has been criticized as antisemitic by some, including by the Klinghoffer family.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1995 after founding NeXT Inc. 1985.
Wikipedia page: Steve Jobs (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: 1985–1997 | NeXT computer
text: Following his resignation from Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT Inc. with $7 million.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A Passage to India is a book about a young  woman who goes to India.
Wikipedia page: A Passage to India (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary | Arrival
text: A young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Chaplin's mom had a STD.
Wikipedia page: Charlie Chaplin (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | 1889–1913: Early years | Background and childhood hardship
text: mental asylum – she had developed a psychosis seemingly brought on by an infection of syphilis and malnutrition.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: There is a superstition in India that if you kiss in front of other people, your lips will fall off, which keeps people from showing affection in this way out in the open.
Wikipedia page: Kiss (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Legality of public kissing
text: In 2007, two people were fined and jailed for a month after kissing and hugging in public in Dubai.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tang Dynasty was in between two dynasties that included the Sui Dynasty and one other that had numbers in their name.
Wikipedia page: Tang Dynasty (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The planet Mars which is named after a Roman god is the second farthest planet from the Sun.
Wikipedia page: Mars (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being only larger than Mercury.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This poem is primarily concerned with the killing and use of poultry as a scarf.
Wikipedia page: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: In anger, the crew forces the mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of regret:  After a "weary time", the ship encounters a ghostly hulk.
section_header: Synopsis
text: Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The book, It, by Stephan Hawkings is his  22nd  book and 17th novel.
Wikipedia page: It (novel) (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is an example of a new style of narration at the time this book was published in the 1920's.
Wikipedia page: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode.
section_header: Summary
text: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: X-ray was discovered by a French professor.
Wikipedia page: X-ray (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In many languages, X-radiation is referred to as Röntgen radiation, after the German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen, who discovered it on November 8, 1895.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This play is about a family vying for control of an organization.
Wikipedia page: The Little Foxes (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in 1900, it focuses on the struggle for control of a family business.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John C. Calhoun was anti-slavery.
Wikipedia page: John C. Calhoun (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: William Henry Harrison was a US president and died while in office.
Wikipedia page: William Henry Harrison (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Death and funeral
text: Harrison died on April 4, 1841, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office; he was the first president to die in office.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Taj Mahal is a tourist destination but pollution is causing it to become discolored.
Wikipedia page: Taj Mahal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Tourism
text: The Taj Mahal attracts a large number of tourists.
section_header: Threats
text: The pollution has been turning the Taj Mahal yellow-brown.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel was published in 1960.
Wikipedia page: Things Fall Apart (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sirius is the most vivid star in the night sky and the system is Earth's closet neighbor.
Wikipedia page: Sirius (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Observational history
text: The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius is recorded in some of the earliest astronomical records.
section_header: Summary
text: At a distance of 2.64 parsecs (8.6 ly), the Sirius system is one of Earth's nearest neighbours.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John Cabot was an explorer in 1497 hired by England.
Wikipedia page: John Cabot (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: George Custer was top of his class at West Point and progressed quickly in rank in the army.
Wikipedia page: George Armstrong Custer (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Custer graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, but as the Civil War was just starting, trained officers were in immediate demand.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The reason behind the Coxey's Army march was the economic crisis and lack of employment.
Wikipedia page: Coxey's Army (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Walking Dead is mostly filmed in Georgia.
Wikipedia page: The Walking Dead (TV series) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: The Walking Dead is mostly filmed in Georgia.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ed Sheeran has only lived in the west coast of the United States.
Wikipedia page: Ed Sheeran (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: During 2013, he lived between Hendersonville, Tennessee and Los Angeles, California.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ryan's MLB career spanned 4 decades.
Wikipedia page: Nolan Ryan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ryan is one of only 29 players in baseball history to have appeared in Major League baseball games in four different decades.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Real Madrid C.F. members have managed the club thru time.
Wikipedia page: Real Madrid C.F. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Unlike most European sporting entities, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club throughout its history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A famous corn chip was invented at Disneyland as a way to use up leftover food.
Wikipedia page: Disneyland (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 20th century | 1950s and 1960s
text: As part of the Casa de Fritos operation at Disneyland, "Doritos" (Spanish for "little golden things") were created at the park to recycle old tortillas that would have been discarded.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tony Pérez is a Cuban-American former professional baseball player, coach and manager, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Wikipedia page: Tony Pérez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Night of the Long Knives refers the the killings of the the Sturmabteilung.
Wikipedia page: Night of the Long Knives (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization.
section_header: Summary
text: Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Connie Mack's mother and father were Irish.
Wikipedia page: Connie Mack (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His parents, Michael McGillicuddy and Mary McKillop, were both immigrants from Ireland.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The name of the country is from an ancient monarch.
Wikipedia page: North Korea (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Society | Religion
text: Officially, North Korea is an atheist state.
section_header: Etymology
text: The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo (Koguryŏ) which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and parts of Inner Mongolia, under Gwanggaeto the Great.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Who altered their original band name the Detours because nobody would let them play regular gigs and some other band shared a similar name .
Wikipedia page: The Who (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1964–1978 | Early career
text: By the time the Detours had become the Who, they had already found regular gigs, including at the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford, the White Hart Hotel in Acton, the Goldhawk Social Club in Shepherd's Bush, and the Notre Dame Hall in Leicester Square.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Scenes of people farming are at the end of the movie WALL-E.
Wikipedia page: WALL-E (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: During the credits, humans and robots are shown learning to farm, fish, and build, turning the ravaged planet into a paradise, and the plant is shown to have grown into a mighty tree.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cartwright started working at 17 and was a janitor.
Wikipedia page: Alexander Cartwright (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and work
text: He first worked at the age of 16 in 1836 as a clerk for a Wall Street broker, later doing clerical work at the Union Bank of New York.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Deacon White was a Baptist preacher and known theologian in the "Bible Belt" who also played baseball in the late 1800s to early 1900s.
Wikipedia page: Deacon White (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: James Laurie "Deacon" White (December 2, 1847 – July 7, 1939) was an American baseball player who was one of the principal stars during the first two decades of the sport's professional era.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The hit song Mandy helped Barry find his Manilow magic as an award winning American singer .
Wikipedia page: Barry Manilow (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | 1970s
text: This was quickly followed by Manilow Magic –  The Best Of Barry Manilow, also known as Greatest Hits.
section_header: Summary
text: Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus, June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, producer and actor, with a career that has spanned more than 50 years.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Emmy Noether was described as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
Wikipedia page: Emmy Noether (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Bosworth Field diminished the House of Lancaster after Henry Tudor's attempt to invade and overtake the throne went unopposed.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Bosworth Field (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of Bosworth Field (or Battle of Bosworth) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England in the latter half of the 15th century.
section_header: Background
text: During the 15th century civil war raged across England as the Houses of York and Lancaster fought each other for the English throne.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Hagia Sophia has been a church, a mosque, and a museum.
Wikipedia page: Hagia Sophia (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Museum (1935–present)
text: In March 2019 Erdoğan said that he will change the status of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque, adding that it was a "very big mistake" to turn it into a museum.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Falklands War lasted for two and a half months with the British winning.
Wikipedia page: Falklands War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
section_header: Summary
text: The result of the war was a British victory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Argentina never had European colonists settle there and become issues for the native population.
Wikipedia page: Argentina (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Colonial era
text: Europeans first arrived in the region with the 1502 voyage of Amerigo Vespucci.
section_header: Demographics | Ethnography
text: In colonial times, the ethnic composition of Argentina was the result of the interaction of the pre-Colombian indigenous population with a colonizing population of Spanish origin and with sub-Saharan African slaves.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Craigslist is a classified advertisements website that started with the San Francisco Bay.
Wikipedia page: Craigslist (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
section_header: Summary
text: Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: My Last Duchess contains 32 rhyming lines about the speaker's late wife enjoying life to much.
Wikipedia page: My Last Duchess (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The poem is written in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter.
section_header: Synopsis
text: As they look at the portrait of the late Duchess, the Duke describes her happy, cheerful and flirtatious nature, which had displeased him.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bad and the Beautiful is a film that earned millions.
Wikipedia page: The Bad and the Beautiful (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception
text: It's certainly been imitated enough: any time anybody's really hard up for a title, they just take two adjectives and string them together with an "and" in between." According to MGM records, the film earned $2,367,000 in the US and Canada and $1,006,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $484,000.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hampi is known as the Group of Monuments at Hampi in India and is also a religious hub.
Wikipedia page: Hampi (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Hampi continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, an active Adi Shankara-linked monastery and various monuments belonging to the old city.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry VII was well known because of his six marriages and efforts he went to in order to have a male heir which he never had.
Wikipedia page: Henry VII of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Henry reigned for nearly 24 years and was peacefully succeeded by his son, Henry VIII.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Addie Joss had a German ancestry.
Wikipedia page: Addie Joss (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His parents Jacob and Theresa (née Staudenmeyer) worked as farmers; his father, a cheesemaker who was involved in local politics, had emigrated from Switzerland.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1944 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald "Going My Way" was filmed in California.
Wikipedia page: Going My Way (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception
text: Filming locations included the following: Lakeside Country Club, 4500 W. Lakeside Drive, Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California (golf sequences) Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California (studio) St. Monica Catholic Church, Santa Monica, California (St. Dominic's) Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California (parking lot) According to The New York Times, Going My Way was "the best" of Crosby's career, which is "saying a lot for a performer who has been one of the steadiest joys of the screen.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel takes place during the Napoleonic times.
Wikipedia page: The Charterhouse of Parma (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, di Lampedusa and Henry James.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American actor Barry Manilow married his high school sweetheart but had the marriage annulled and later came out as in a relationship with a man.
Wikipedia page: Barry Manilow (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: " In 1966, Deixler had the marriage annulled.
section_header: Personal life
text: Manilow stated in 2017 that, despite his later long-term relationship with a man, he was in love with Deixler and the failure of his marriage was not related to issues of sexual orientation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Middlemarch is a novel by the English author George Eliot and is set in a fictional town with characters that cover highly sensitive topics, including marriage and women.
Wikipedia page: Middlemarch (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.
section_header: Summary
text: Set in a fictitious English Midlands town from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jose Mendez was not very fast despite being a good player.
Wikipedia page: José Méndez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Dominating pitcher: 1908–1914
text: He has terrific speed, great control and uses excellent judgment.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It has been cited as one of the four greatest novels written.
Wikipedia page: Don Quixote (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Babe Ruth's parents were British descendants.
Wikipedia page: Babe Ruth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early years
text: Ruth's parents, Katherine (née Schamberger) and George Herman Ruth Sr., were both of German ancestry.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Family Guy takes place in New Jersey.
Wikipedia page: Family Guy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its surreal and dark humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Inter Milan has only won one FIFA Club World Cup.
Wikipedia page: Inter Milan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Honours
text: The club has also won three UEFA Cups, two Intercontinental Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Besides scoring movies, Philip Glass has made a myriad of classical, traditional compositions.
Wikipedia page: Philip Glass (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Doppler effect was given the name after a Swedish doctor who discovered the shift.
Wikipedia page: Doppler effect (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is named after the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, who described the phenomenon in 1842.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Luddite was a group of of Frenchmen who shot protesters in the 1800s in Paris.
Wikipedia page: Luddite (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ariana Grande started her career at the age of 15.
Wikipedia page: Ariana Grande (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Grande began her career in the 2008 Broadway musical 13.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eleanor Roosevelt was the first wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was very hospitable towards non-Christian believers.
Wikipedia page: Eleanor Roosevelt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Other relationships | Anti-Semitism
text: Eleanor Roosevelt in private showed a revulsion against rich Jews in 1918, telling her mother-in-law the "Jew party [was] appalling.... I never wish to hear money, jewels or sables mentioned again.".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eighteen people passed away during the Peterloo Massacre.
Wikipedia page: Peterloo Massacre (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Victims
text: Bush puts the fatalities at 18 and Poole supports this figure,
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tommy Lasorda was an American Major League Baseball pitcher, coach, and manager that is the second highest person alive who has the largest age in the MLB Hall of fame.
Wikipedia page: Tommy Lasorda (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Since the death of Red Schoendienst in June 2018, he has been the oldest living Hall of Famer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: During his time in college, Phil Knight ran track for his school in Oregon.
Wikipedia page: Phil Knight (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: "Knight continued his education at the University of Oregon (UO), in Eugene, where he is a graduate brother of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was a sports reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald and earned a journalism degree in 1959.As a middle-distance runner at UO, his personal best was 1 mile (1.6 km) in 4 minutes, 13 seconds, and he won varsity letters for his track performances in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
section_header: Summary
text: Knight is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tommy McCarthy, an inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame, was known for his love of bunting.
Wikipedia page: Tommy McCarthy (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: Although the shoddy record-keeping of the time prevents an accurate tally, he also asserted himself as a daring presence on the base-paths, by some accounts stealing over 100 bases in 1888 and approaching the mark in 1890.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jesse Burkett specialized in bunting, and was called "crab" for some reason.
Wikipedia page: Jesse Burkett (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jesse Cail Burkett (December 4, 1868 – May 27, 1953), nicknamed "Crab", was an American professional baseball left fielder.
section_header: Summary
text: He is also regarded as one of the greatest bunters of all time.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Doctor Zhivago was filmed on location in Siberia.
Wikipedia page: Doctor Zhivago (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Filming
text: Lean's experience filming a part of Lawrence of Arabia in Spain, access to CEA Studios, and the guarantee of snow in some parts of Spain led to his choosing the country as the primary location for filming.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Paul Hindemith music was banned and was a musician.
Wikipedia page: Paul Hindemith (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.
section_header: Life and career
text: The Nazis banned his music in October 1936 and he was subsequently included in the 1938 Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) exhibition in Düsseldorf.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Oxygen has no taste.
Wikipedia page: Oxygen (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Characteristics | Properties and molecular structure
text: At standard temperature and pressure, oxygen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas with the molecular formula O2, referred to as dioxygen.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Stan Musial's teammates called him "The Reinforcer."
Wikipedia page: Stan Musial (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Stanley Frank Musial (; born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial; November 21, 1920  – January 19, 2013), nicknamed Stan the Man, was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Benjamin Harrison was anti-integration, despite serving the Union in the Civil War.
Wikipedia page: Benjamin Harrison (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Presidency 1889–1893 | Civil rights
text: After regaining the majority in both Houses of Congress, some Republicans, led by Harrison, attempted to pass legislation to protect black Americans' civil rights.
section_header: Presidency 1889–1893 | Civil rights
text: This prompted Harrison to urge Congress to pass legislation that would "secure all our people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right under the Constitution and laws".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Edward Allen Harris's earliest stage acts date back to 1976.
Wikipedia page: Ed Harris (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Early plays
text: Harris began his career on the stage.
section_header: Career | Early plays
text: In 1976, he played an FBI agent in the world premiere of Thomas Rickman's play, Baalam at the Pasadena Repertory Theatre located at the historic The Hotel Carver.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 7 World Trade center remained standing without damage after the infamous terrorist attack and is located in New York.
Wikipedia page: 7 World Trade Center (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: On September 11, 2001, the structure was substantially damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
section_header: Summary
text: The original structure, part of the original World Trade Center, was completed in 1987 and was destroyed in the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This story was always attributed to its proper author, Washington Irving.
Wikipedia page: Rip van Winkle (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Alan Turing's work helped the Germans lose the war but few people knew this at the time.
Wikipedia page: Alan Turing (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic, and in so doing helped win the war.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla was known for being prolific.
Wikipedia page: Manuel de Falla (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Paris
text: While at no stage was he a prolific composer, it was then that he entered into his mature creative period.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Shape of Water was mostly filmed in  Los Angeles, California.
Wikipedia page: The Shape of Water (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Filming took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between August and November 2016.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The book No Exit discusses 3 characters stuck in a room.
Wikipedia page: No Exit (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play begins with three characters who find themselves waiting in a mysterious room.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The author of this play has a real and personal bone to pick with actual property selling companies.
Wikipedia page: Glengarry Glen Ross (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell undesirable real estate to unwitting prospective buyers.
section_header: Summary
text: It is based on Mamet's experience having previously worked in a similar office.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: David Mark Winfield completed his 20 year MLB career in 1997.
Wikipedia page: Dave Winfield (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Professional career | Honors and awards
text: Winfield retired in 1996 and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, in his first year of eligibility.
section_header: Summary
text: Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, one of the major characters in The Brothers Karamazov likes to imbibe vodka by firelight.
Wikipedia page: The Brothers Karamazov (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Major characters | Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov
text: Dmitri is considered to be a sensualist, like his father, and regularly indulges in nights of champagne-drinking and whatever entertainment and stimulation money can buy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Yearling is available in over 23 languages.
Wikipedia page: The Yearling (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and 22 other languages.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Marie Curie lost both her mother and a sister within three years when she was still a young girl.
Wikipedia page: Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Early years
text: The deaths of Maria's mother and sister caused her to give up Catholicism and become agnostic.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Warren led the Golden State for 10 years.
Wikipedia page: Earl Warren (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American politician and jurist who served as Governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Feddie Mercury was born in Rock Town on September 6, 1946.
Wikipedia page: Freddie Mercury (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town in the British protectorate of Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) on 5 September 1946.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Liverpool F.C. is one of the nine most valuable teams in soccer and was created in 1892 by John Houlding.
Wikipedia page: Liverpool F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: One of the most widely supported teams in the world, in 2019, Liverpool was the world's seventh highest-earning football club, with an annual revenue of €604 million, and the world's eighth most valuable football club, valued at $2.183 billion.
section_header: Stadium
text: Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Albigensian Crusade' goal was to eliminate Jewish people in the South part of France.
Wikipedia page: Albigensian Crusade (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (1209–1229; French: Croisade des albigeois, Occitan: Crosada dels albigeses) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in southern France.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Robin William's mom was a secretary.
Wikipedia page: Robin Williams (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi,
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Falklands War lasted for 2 and half months.
Wikipedia page: Falklands War (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas) was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a play about an African American man that comes to dinner with his wife to see her parents that never met him because they met only two days before.
Wikipedia page: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Negro throughout) physician and medical professor, whom she had met just 10 days prior.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The English Patient is about 4 people and how they interact.
Wikipedia page: The English Patient (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II.
section_header: Summary
text: The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dan Brouthers, also known as "Big Dan" for his size, he was 6'2 (1.88 m) and weighed 207lbs (94 kg), which was large by 19th-century standards, was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904.
Wikipedia page: Dan Brouthers (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dennis Joseph "Dan" Brouthers (; May 8, 1858 – August 2, 1932) was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned the period from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Forrest Gump is an original tale and not based on anything.
Wikipedia page: Forrest Gump (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Script
text: The film is based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The show was only shot in California.
Wikipedia page: Breaking Bad (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underemployed and depressed high school chemistry teacher who is struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vespucci was an Italian man whom sailed to the Americas under a different country than his birth one.
Wikipedia page: Amerigo Vespucci (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Early career
text: Their objective in Paris was to obtain French support for Florence's war with Naples.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope Clement V moved the seat of papacy to France.
Wikipedia page: Pope Clement V (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Pontificate | Relations with Rome
text: In March 1309, the entire papal court moved from Poitiers (where it had remained for 4 years) to the Comtat Venaissin, around the city of  Avignon (which was not then part of France, but technically part of the Kingdom of Arles within the Holy Roman Empire, since 1290 held as an imperial fief by the king of Naples).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tess of the d'Urbervilles is set in the country of Germany.
Wikipedia page: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary | Phase the First: The Maiden (1–11)
text: The novel is set in an impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The author of Erewhon was not known when it was first published.
Wikipedia page: Erewhon (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: When Edward IV was crowned king, the York side of the conflict thought it was a bad idea.
Wikipedia page: Wars of the Roses (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Edward was thus unopposed as the first Yorkist king of England, as Edward IV.
section_header: Middle stages | Edward IV
text: The official coronation of Edward IV took place on June 1461 in London, where he received a rapturous welcome from his supporters.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Grubhub Inc., an American online and mobile platform, charged companies for telephone calls that lasted more than quarters of a minute.
Wikipedia page: Grubhub (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversy | Phone order fees
text: In 2019, the company was sued for charging restaurants fees for phone calls taking place on Grubhub-issued phone lines lasting over 45 seconds—whether they resulted in orders or not.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: James A. Garfield's baptism was outdoors.
Wikipedia page: James A. Garfield (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Education, marriage and early career
text: Garfield had attended church more to please his mother than to worship God, but in his late teens underwent a religious awakening, and attended many camp meetings, at one of which he was born again on March 4, 1850, baptized into Christ by being submerged in the icy waters of the Chagrin River.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Roald Amundsen received a military funeral despite not belonging to any of Norway's armed forces.
Wikipedia page: Roald Amundsen (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Disappearance and death
text: The search for Amundsen and team was called off in September 1928 by the Norwegian government, and the bodies were never found.
section_header: Disappearance and death
text: It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen and his crew were killed in the wreck, or died shortly afterward.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Robin Yount swore that he would quit and play a different sport professionally unless he got to play shortstop.
Wikipedia page: Robin Yount (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career | Early years
text: He threatened to retire from the game and take up professional golf rather than be underpaid or moved to the outfield by the Brewers.
section_header: Playing career | Early years
text: Yount's demands were met; when he returned to the team, Molitor was moved from shortstop to second base to make room for Yount.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Goethe wrote the story in his 30s.
Wikipedia page: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Effect on Goethe
text: Although he wrote Werther at the age of 24, it was all for which some of his visitors in his old age knew him.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Slipknot was inspired by legendary bands.
Wikipedia page: Slipknot (band) (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Musical style, influences, and lyrical themes
text: The members of Slipknot are also influenced by Kiss, Black Sabbath, Slayer, Jimi Hendrix, Deicide, Pantera, Anthrax, Metal Church, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Sepultura, White Zombie, Alice in Chains, Malevolent Creation, Mr. Bungle, Nine Inch Nails, Neurosis, Led Zeppelin, Converge, The Melvins, Johnny Cash, N.W.A, Skinny Puppy, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Iron Maiden, Emperor, Suicidal Tendencies, Beastie Boys, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Misfits, Gorefest, Run-DMC, Black Flag, Faith
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In Budhism, the term means "blowing out" or "quanching".
Wikipedia page: Nirvana (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Buddhism
text: Nirvana (nibbana) literally means "blowing out" or "quenching".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: King Lear is a romantic novel.
Wikipedia page: King Lear (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American baseball player Nap Lajoie worked as a teamster and taxi driver until he was scouted.
Wikipedia page: Nap Lajoie (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He left Woonsocket and his $7.50 per week ($230 in current dollar terms) working as a taxi driver and joined the Class B New England League's Fall River Indians in 1896.
section_header: Early life
text: He earned money as a taxi driver with a horse and buggy and locally was called "Slugging Cabby." "When I told my father I had decided to take the job he was very angry.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Switzerland is known for is basic and very little culinary magic happens there.
Wikipedia page: Switzerland (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture | Cuisine
text: The cuisine of Switzerland is multifaceted.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Neville Chamberlain passed away for cancer while in office as the Prime Minister.
Wikipedia page: Neville Chamberlain (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Chamberlain died aged 71 on 9 November 1940 of cancer, six months after leaving the premiership.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bacteriophages, and viruses in general, are not considered to be living organisms even though they evolve and change like living organisms do.
Wikipedia page: Bacteriophage (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Uses | Other
text: Basic research – Bacteriophages are important model organisms for studying principles of evolution and ecology.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Zinc makes people skinny.
Wikipedia page: Zinc (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Applications | Dietary supplement | Weight gain
text: At least 15 clinical trials have shown that zinc improved weight gain in anorexia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Berkman assassination attempt was the final result of the Homestead steel strike battle and a turning point in Britain's effort to unionize.
Wikipedia page: Homestead Strike (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead steel strike or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
section_header: Summary
text: The final result was a major defeat for the union of strikers and a setback for their efforts to unionize steelworkers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sony started after World War III and had 10 employees.
Wikipedia page: Sony (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
text: Sony began in the wake of World War II.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lyrical Ballads was printed in the early 1700s.
Wikipedia page: Lyrical Ballads (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Taj Mahal is not a Mosque.
Wikipedia page: Taj Mahal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Lady Gaga was featured on the Beyonce album "Fame Monster"
Wikipedia page: Lady Gaga (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Fame Monster (2009), which yielded the singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Kamehameha was against universal suffrage and set in place laws to limit voter turnout to only those who were literate or made enough income.
Wikipedia page: Kamehameha V (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: New constitution and new laws
text: He objected, in particular, to that constitution's grant of universal male suffrage in elections for the lower House of Representatives.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Berlin died due to a car accident when he was 87.
Wikipedia page: Irving Berlin (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: [who] got Porter the show that launched his career." Berlin died in his sleep at his 17 Beekman Place town house in Manhattan on September 22, 1989, of heart attack and natural causes at the age of 101.
Verdict: REFUTES