tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: One time, Verisign just gave away a pair of important certs to a criminal impersonating Microsoft staff, and they didn't even notice the error for 14 days.
Wikipedia page: Verisign (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversies | 2001: Code signing certificate mistake
text: In January 2001, Verisign mistakenly issued two Class 3 code signing certificates to an individual claiming to be an employee of Microsoft.
section_header: Controversies | 2001: Code signing certificate mistake
text: The mistake was not discovered and the certificates were not revoked until two weeks later during a routine audit.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Some members of the Black Panther Party are politicians.
Wikipedia page: Black Panther Party (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Aftermath and legacy
text: Numerous former Panthers have held elected office in the United States, some into the 21st century; these include Charles Barron (New York City Council), Nelson Malloy (Winston-Salem City Council), and Bobby Rush (US House of Representatives).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Brothers Karamazov took almost 2 years to be complete.
Wikipedia page: The Brothers Karamazov (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: R.Kelly was issued a restrain court notice by his wife.
Wikipedia page: R. Kelly (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Marriage
text: Andrea filed a restraining order against Kelly in September 2005 after a physical altercation, ultimately filing for divorce in 2006.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry makes friends only.
Wikipedia page: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel takes place over a long period of time.
Wikipedia page: Don Quixote (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Themes
text: The novel takes place over a long period of time, including many adventures united by common themes of the nature of reality, reading, and dialogue in general.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Alexander founded over 40 cities, most of them west of the Tigris.
Wikipedia page: Alexander the Great (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Founding of cities
text: Over the course of his conquests, Alexander founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most of them east of the Tigris.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Union Army had to reverse their march after they engaged with the Confederates and had their guns taken.
Wikipedia page: First Battle of Bull Run (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Battle | Noon phase | Henry House Hill
text: The capture of the Union guns turned the tide of battle.
section_header: Battle | Union retreat
text: The retreat was relatively orderly up to the Bull Run crossings, but was poorly managed by the Union officers.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cyrus the Great was the first ruler of the Achaemenid Empire.
Wikipedia page: Cyrus the Great (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: ; Hebrew: כּוֹרֶשׁ, Modern: Kōréš, Tiberian: Kōréš; c. 600 – 530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jim Rice spend his whole career with one baseball team.
Wikipedia page: Jim Rice (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rice played his entire 16-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry the Navigator was Spanish.
Wikipedia page: Henry the Navigator (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Infante Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One person tried to jump to a certain death from the Empire State but a brief increase in the speed of the wind push them to the floor below, saving their life.
Wikipedia page: Empire State Building (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Incidents | Suicide attempts
text: On December 2, 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor, only to be blown back onto a ledge on the 85th floor by a gust of wind and left with a broken hip.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kirby Puckett did receive a donation to play baseball in college.
Wikipedia page: Kirby Puckett (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: After receiving no scholarship offers following graduation, Puckett went to work on an assembly line for Ford Motor Company.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hampi is an important destination for Buddhist pilgrims.
Wikipedia page: Hampi (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It became the pilgrimage centre of the Hindu religion.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Fungi are built from the combination of hyphae, fungal cells which join together via an event called anastomosis into a mycelium.
Wikipedia page: Fungi (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Morphology | Microscopic structures
text: Hyphae also sometimes fuse when they come into contact, a process called hyphal fusion (or anastomosis).
section_header: Morphology | Microscopic structures
text: These growth processes lead to the development of a mycelium, an interconnected network of hyphae.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Defiant Ones is a 1958 adventure drama film about two men forced to get along to escape the posse, forcing them through the desert.
Wikipedia page: The Defiant Ones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: As the posse led by humane Sheriff Max Muller (Theodore Bikel) gets close, the escapees can hear the dogs on their trail.
section_header: Plot
text: The men agree to split up. However, after Cullen leaves, the woman reveals that she had lied — she sent Cullen into the dangerous swamp to die to eliminate any chance he would be captured and perhaps reveal where Joker had gone.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Georges Strait's father was a teacher.
Wikipedia page: George Strait (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life through high school
text: He grew up in nearby Pearsall, in Frio County, where his father was a junior high school mathematics teacher and the owner of a 2,000-acre (810 ha) cattle ranch outside of Big Wells, Texas.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Thomas Wolfe's novel Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life was published posthumously.
Wikipedia page: Look Homeward, Angel (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Genesis and publication history
text: The two worked through it together, and after being trimmed by 60,000 words, the novel was published in 1929.
section_header: Genesis and publication history
text: Perkins was impressed with the young author's talent, but requested that Wolfe rewrite the novel to a more publishable size.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Chuck Klein did not go to university.
Wikipedia page: Chuck Klein (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: After finishing high school at Southport High School, he began working at a steel mill instead of attending college due to his poor grades at school.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Red and the Black is a book by Stendhal and made into movies.
Wikipedia page: The Red and the Black (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Film adaptations
text: Der geheime Kurier (The Secret Courier) is a silent 1928 German film by Gennaro Righelli, featuring Ivan Mosjoukine, Lil Dagover, and Valeria Blanka.
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.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Magellan organized the French expedition.
Wikipedia page: Ferdinand Magellan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: IPA: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃w dɨ mɐɣɐˈʎɐ̃jʃ]; Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes, IPA: [feɾˈnando ðe maɣaˈʎanes]; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, which was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Arnold Schoenberg ( US also ; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k] (listen); 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-born composer, music theorist that emigrated to the United States in 1943, and who's works were labeled degenerate music, because they were modernist and atonal with the rise of the Nazi Party.
Wikipedia page: Arnold Schoenberg (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works were labeled degenerate music, because they were modernist and atonal.
section_header: Summary
text: He emigrated to the United States in 1933, becoming an American citizen in 1941.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Connie Mack was named after his grandfather Cornelius.
Wikipedia page: Connie Mack (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Michael McGillicuddy's father was named Cornelius McGillicuddy, and by tradition, the family named at least one son in each generation Cornelius.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dubai is the city in the United Arab Emirates with the most amount of people and has a crazy hot dry summer
Wikipedia page: Dubai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Climate
text: Dubai summers are also known for the very high humidity level, which can make it very uncomfortable for many with exceptionally high dew points in summer.
section_header: Climate
text: Summers in Dubai are extremely hot, prolonged, windy, and humid, with an average high around 40 °C (104 °F) and overnight lows around 30 °C (86 °F) in the hottest month, August.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Frank Chance's household had roots from the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia page: Frank Chance (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His family was of English and Scottish descent.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Gateway of India in Mumbai was originally made out of cardboard but was later remade out of marble and cement.
Wikipedia page: Gateway of India (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The structure is a triumphal arch made of basalt, which is 26 metres (85 feet) high.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The John F. Kennedy International Airport is an airport that supports the New York City area.
Wikipedia page: John F. Kennedy International Airport (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the primary international airport serving New York City.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Last Emperor is a movie about Puyi, a Chinese man, from his childhood to his imprisonment.
Wikipedia page: The Last Emperor (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Puyi's life is depicted from his ascent to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Communist Party of China.
section_header: Summary
text: The Last Emperor (Italian: L'ultimo imperatore; Chinese: 末代皇帝) is a 1987 epic biographical drama film, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China,
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States although details of Hudson's early life are mostly unknown.
Wikipedia page: Henry Hudson (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Details of Hudson's birth and early life are mostly unknown.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was a man of many things including an Ivy League graduate and Major General in the Armed Forces.
Wikipedia page: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Lodge remained in the Army Reserve after the war and eventually rose to the rank of major general.
section_header: Summary
text: After graduating from Harvard University, Lodge won election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mazeroski started playing for the Pirates as a teenager.
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.
section_header: Early years
text: As a 17-year-old in 1954, Mazeroski signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Al Simmons played for 7 different Major League Baseball teams.
Wikipedia page: Al Simmons (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Nicknamed "Bucketfoot Al", he played for two decades in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and had his best years with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics during the late 1920s and early 1930s, winning two World Series with Philadelphia.
section_header: Summary
text: Simmons also played for the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Finland has the northernmost capital city in the world.
Wikipedia page: Finland (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Geography
text: Of world capitals, only Reykjavík lies more to the north than Helsinki.
section_header: History | Swedish era
text: In the 16th century, Mikael Agricola published the first written works in Finnish, and Finland's current capital city, Helsinki, was founded by Gustav I of Sweden.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lyft allows adult beverages for their passengers.
Wikipedia page: Lyft (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Product overview | Driver requirements
text: Lyft has a zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hudson's Bay Company is the owners of Neiman Marcus.
Wikipedia page: Hudson's Bay Company (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: HBC owns the Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Fifth Avenue
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Andrew Lloyd-Webber has 3 children from his wives.
Wikipedia page: Andrew Lloyd-Webber (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Together they had two children, a daughter and a son:  Imogen Lloyd Webber (
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Deborah Kerr was nominated for an Academy Award for her work in a movie about sad English people.
Wikipedia page: Deborah Kerr (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Film career
text: Soon she received the first of her Oscar nominations for Edward, My Son, a 1949 drama set in England that co-starred Spencer Tracy.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: This television series was adapted into a series of books.
Wikipedia page: The Vampire Diaries (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural teen drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the popular book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a multi-purpose out door stadium with a partial roof located in Atlanta's wine country.
Wikipedia page: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Design | Roof
text: AMB Group senior executive Mike Egan went as far as describing Mercedes-Benz Stadium as "an outdoor stadium with a roof over it" due to these characteristics, but that other factors such as humidity and outside temperatures would be taken into consideration on whether or not the roof would be opened.
section_header: Summary
text: Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The construction of the canal began in 1820, more than fifty years after the project was proposed.
Wikipedia page: Erie Canal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Proponents of the project gradually wore down opponents; its construction began in 1817.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The use of zinc supplement as a bulimia cure for children has been well documented in multiple studies including a large meta-analysis.
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.
section_header: Applications | Dietary supplement | Weight gain
text: A meta-analysis of 33 prospective intervention trials regarding zinc supplementation and its effects on the growth of children in many countries showed that zinc supplementation alone had a statistically significant effect on linear growth and body weight gain, indicating that other deficiencies that may have been present were not responsible for growth retardation.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Some special Vectors have only one of direction or magnitude.
Wikipedia page: Vector (mathematics and physics) (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Vectors in Euclidean geometry
text: In physics, Euclidean vectors are used to represent physical quantities that have both magnitude and direction, but are not located at a specific place, in contrast to scalars, which have no direction.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: He tarveled through Pakistan in 1975 seeking for enlightenment and studying Islam.
Wikipedia page: Steve Jobs (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Private Practice is a spinoff of Grey's Anatomy starring Addison Montgomery, who had left the show by the start of the fourth season.
Wikipedia page: Grey's Anatomy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production and development | Casting
text: At the conclusion of the third season, Walsh departed the show to pursue the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice, but continues to make guest appearances.
section_header: Spin-offs, etc. | Private Practice
text: On February 21, 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that ABC was pursuing a spin-off medical drama television series for Grey's Anatomy featuring Walsh's character, Addison Montgomery.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.
Wikipedia page: Bud Selig (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The website Facebook was founded while a student was at MIT.
Wikipedia page: Facebook (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Inc. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Katharine Hepburn received criticism for high pitched vocals.
Wikipedia page: Katharine Hepburn (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Breaking into theatre (1928–1932)
text: She was criticized for her shrill voice, and so left Baltimore to study with a voice tutor in New York City.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Vietnam is a highly populated place and was at war with an European country.
Wikipedia page: Vietnam (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With an estimated 96.2 million inhabitants as of 2019, it is the 15th most populous country in the world.
section_header: History | First Indochina War
text: The Việt Minh sought independence for Vietnam from France and the end of the Japanese occupation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The company Netflix started as a disc rental company before mainly becoming a streaming company that also produces its own content.
Wikipedia page: Netflix (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings abandoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the initial DVD rental business.
section_header: Summary
text: Netflix expanded its business in 2007 with the introduction of streaming media while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental business.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Gregory VII was one of the very last Pope's to promote celibacy for the clergy and look down upon the selling of offices and rolls.
Wikipedia page: Pope Gregory VII (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was the first pope in several centuries to rigorously enforce the Western Church's ancient policy of celibacy for the clergy and also attacked the practice of simony.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a was honored with various awards.
Wikipedia page: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: McDormand and Rockwell each won an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and SAG Award for Best Lead Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" has a clear meaning that is not debated.
Wikipedia page: Ode on a Grecian Urn (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 (see 1820 in poetry).
section_header: Critical response | 'Beauty is truth' debate
text: The 20th century marked the beginning of a critical dispute over the final lines of the poem and their relationship to the beauty of the whole work.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jane Alexander's father, Tony, supported her love for acting over education.
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.
section_header: Early life
text: Alexander was born Jane Quigley in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Ruth Elizabeth (née Pearson), a nurse, and Thomas B. Quigley, an orthopedic surgeon.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Edict of Nantes was a document sign into law by King Henry IV in an attempt to end to the religiously fueled battles in France.
Wikipedia page: Edict of Nantes (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It marked the end of the religious wars that had afflicted France during the second half of the 16th century.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bob Lemon's dad was a police officer with the San Bernardino policy department in 1938.
Wikipedia page: Bob Lemon (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Lemon's father, Earl Lemon, ran an ice business.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hank O'Day was called "The Reverend"
Wikipedia page: Hank O'Day (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Henry Martin Francis O'Day (July 8, 1859 – July 2, 1935), nicknamed "The Reverend", was an American right-handed pitcher and later an umpire and manager in Major League Baseball.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dawson played for the Patriots.
Wikipedia page: Andre Dawson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Andre Nolan Dawson (born July 10, 1954), nicknamed "The Hawk" and "Awesome Dawson", is an American former professional baseball player and inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bastille is one of Paris's top tourist attractions, with over 1M visitors annually.
Wikipedia page: Bastille (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Remains
text: Due to its destruction after 1789, very little remains of the Bastille in the 21st century.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a famous collection of short free verse poems with many of his characters based on persons known by the author.
Wikipedia page: Spoon River Anthology (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical reception and legacy
text: Meanwhile, those who lived in the Spoon River region objected to their portrayal in the anthology, particularly as so many of the poems' characters were based on real people.
section_header: Composition and publication history
text: Many of the characters who make appearances in Spoon River Anthology were based on real people that Masters knew or heard of in the two towns in which he grew up, Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Diffraction is a phenomenon unique to light.
Wikipedia page: Diffraction (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: These effects also occur when a light wave travels through a medium with a varying refractive index, or when a sound wave travels through a medium with varying acoustic impedance – all waves diffract, including gravitational waves, water waves, and other electromagnetic waves such as X-rays and radio waves.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Roald Amundsen was buried in his hometown.
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.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Colossus of Rhodes was the second tallest building when it was built.
Wikipedia page: Colossus of Rhodes (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: According to most contemporary descriptions, the Colossus stood approximately 70 cubits, or 33 metres (108 feet) high—the approximate height of the modern Statue of Liberty from feet to crown—making it the tallest statue in the ancient world.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Hunger Games trilogy has been sold into 56 territories and 51 languages to date.
Wikipedia page: The Hunger Games (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Hunger Games trilogy has been sold into 56 territories in 51 languages to date.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Daniel Day-Lewis holds citizenship from England and France.
Wikipedia page: Daniel Day-Lewis (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor with dual British and Irish citizenship.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor was an Emperor starting in 962 till his passing.
Wikipedia page: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (German: Otto der Große, Italian: Ottone il Grande), was German king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Thalberg was said to be born of parents who are not married to each other.
Wikipedia page: Sigismond Thalberg (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Family
text: According to legend, he was the illegitimate son of Prince Moritz Dietrichstein and Baroness Maria Julia Wetzlar von Plankenstern.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Second Coming is the idea of the return of Muhammad.
Wikipedia page: The Second Coming (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian, Islamic, Baháʼí and Messianic Jewish belief regarding the return of Jesus after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The novel is about a woman trying to gain favor with a man named Miles Standish so he will propose to her so she can move up in the world.
Wikipedia page: The Courtship of Miles Standish (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Overview
text: The Courtship of Miles Standish is set in the year 1621 against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war and focuses on a love triangle among three Mayflower passengers: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullins, and John Alden.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Carlton Fisk was paid primarily to throw balls at a man squatting behind another man that tries to hit it with a weighted wooden club.
Wikipedia page: Carlton Fisk (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1969 to 1993 for the Boston Red Sox (1969, 1971–1980) and Chicago White Sox (1981–1993).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The website Craigslist currently has personals for dating.
Wikipedia page: Craigslist (Technology)
Evidence:
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.
section_header: Site characteristics | Personals
text: On March 22, 2018, Craigslist discontinued its "Personals" section in the United States in response to the passing of the Stop
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: James Monroe had to raise his sisters after their parents died.
Wikipedia page: James Monroe (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Though he inherited property from both of his parents, the 16-year-old Monroe was forced to withdraw from school to support his younger brothers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire won the most Academy Awards that year and four Golden Globes.
Wikipedia page: Slumdog Millionaire (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 2009 and won eight—the most for any 2008 film—including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
section_header: Summary
text: Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup, telling the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Netflix started in 1995 as a way to send movies directly to the customer and has since been changed to offer streaming services.
Wikipedia page: Netflix (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Entertainment dominance, presence, and continued growth
text: In July 2011, Netflix changed its prices, charging customers for its mail rental service and streaming service separately.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Paradise Lost's beginning is about Adam and Eve.
Wikipedia page: Paradise Lost (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (Latin for in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later.
section_header: Synopsis
text: It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Square, Inc. was founded by 2 females in 2014.
Wikipedia page: Square, Inc. (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The company was founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey and launched its first app and service in 2010.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Midnight Cowboy occurs in Alabama.
Wikipedia page: Midnight Cowboy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man "Ratso" Rizzo (Hoffman).
section_header: Production
text: The opening scenes were filmed in Big Spring, Texas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Theodore Roosevelt is Eleanor Roosevelt's uncle.
Wikipedia page: Eleanor Roosevelt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Early life
text: Through her father, she was a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: "Because I could not stop for Death" is a poem that was finished by the author before she died.
Wikipedia page: Because I could not stop for Death (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: "Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Thelma and Louise decide that they would rather die than be arrested.
Wikipedia page: Thelma & Louise (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Rather than be captured and spend the rest of their lives in jail, Thelma proposes that they "keep going".
section_header: Plot
text: They kiss, Louise steps on the gas, and they accelerate over the cliff as Hal desperately pursues them on foot.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Congress of Berlin is a group of German leaders who meet in Berlin to discuss the Ottoman Empire.
Wikipedia page: Congress of Berlin (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) was a meeting of the representatives of the era's six great powers in Europe (Russia, Great Britain, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Germany), the Ottoman Empire and four Balkan states (Greece, Serbia, Romania and Montenegro).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jay-Z was raised in Detroit.
Wikipedia page: Jay-Z (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Born and raised in New York City, Jay-Z first began his musical career after founding the record label Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995, and subsequently released his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt in 1996.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Roman authors refrained from writing spooky tales in fear of angering the gods.
Wikipedia page: Ghosts (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Classical Antiquity | Roman Empire and Late Antiquity
text: Pliny describes the haunting of a house in Athens, which was bought by the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, who lived about 100 years before Pliny.
section_header: History | Classical Antiquity | Roman Empire and Late Antiquity
text: The writers Plautus and Lucian also wrote stories about haunted houses.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Importance of Being Earnest marked a low point in Wilde's career as it was not well liked.
Wikipedia page: The Importance of Being Earnest (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Productions | Critical reception
text: "The Importance of Being Earnest is Wilde's most popular work and is continually revived.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dunkirk is a 2017  World War II film, making more money than any other war film and filmed partly on location.
Wikipedia page: Dunkirk (2017 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the highest-grossing World War II film, making $526 million worldwide.
section_header: Production | Filming
text: Filming in Dunkirk took place at the location of the real evacuation, while the street scenes were shot in nearby Malo-les-Bains because most of the buildings in Dunkirk were destroyed in the war.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Michael Jackson passed away from an overdose and was not called the King of R & B.
Wikipedia page: Michael Jackson (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: ; his death was caused by a propofol overdose.
section_header: Life and career | 1987–1990: Bad, autobiography, and Neverland
text: Jackson became known as the "King of Pop", a nickname that Jackson's publicists embraced.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Arc de Triomphe at one point in its history was black.
Wikipedia page: Arc de Triomphe (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 20th century
text: By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965–1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An American in Paris is an orchestral piece that has been recorded many times since 1929.
Wikipedia page: An American in Paris (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Recordings
text: An American in Paris has been frequently recorded.
section_header: Recordings
text: The first recording was made for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Chelsea's fans were considered to be the most polite in all of England.
Wikipedia page: Chelsea F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bastille was a prison in France and was built after the French Revolution.
Wikipedia page: Bastille (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was stormed by a crowd on 14 July 1789, in the French Revolution, becoming an important symbol for the French Republican movement.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The premiere of the play, The Way of the World happened in the 1800's.
Wikipedia page: The Way of the World (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Spanish professional football club, Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, is the highest earning football club.
Wikipedia page: Real Madrid C.F. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The club was estimated to be worth €3.8 billion ($4.2 billion) in 2019, and it was the second highest-earning football club in the world, with an annual revenue of €757,3 million in 2019.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The mathematical definition of entropy (relying on statistical mechanics) was developed after the system described in terms of a set of empirically defined thermodynamic variables.
Wikipedia page: Entropy (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Definitions and descriptions
text: Historically, the classical thermodynamics definition developed first.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Effa Manley was a Caucasian woman, but many people considered her to be African American.
Wikipedia page: Effa Manley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Regardless of her ethnic origins, Effa Manley thought of herself as a black woman and was perceived by all who knew her as just that." Author Ted Schwarz wrote, "She was a white woman who passed as a black... She could stay in any hotel she desired.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cymbeline's children are kidnapped as babies.
Wikipedia page: Cymbeline (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal king of Britain, once had two sons, Guiderius and Arvirargus, but they were stolen twenty years earlier as infants by an exiled traitor named Belarius.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pepin the Short was the uncle of Charlemagne.
Wikipedia page: Pepin the Short (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pepin died in 768 and was succeeded by his sons Charlemagne and Carloman.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Philip Seymour Hoffman had three siblings.
Wikipedia page: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Along with one brother, Gordy, Hoffman had two sisters, Jill and Emily.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: During World War II she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.
Wikipedia page: Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Strange Interlude is about a child of a university school teacher.
Wikipedia page: Strange Interlude (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of a classics professor at a college in New England, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Their Eyes Were Watching God was written in the late 1930s.
Wikipedia page: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Chiang was a native of Japan and a soldier of the Japanese military.
Wikipedia page: Chiang Kai-shek (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Education in Japan
text: Finishing his military schooling at Tokyo Shinbu Gakko, Chiang served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911.
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: Ray Charles died before the movie was released.
Wikipedia page: Ray (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Charles was set to attend an opening of the completed film, but died of liver disease in June 2004, months prior to the premiere.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes from a phrase meaning be ready for hidden enemies.
Wikipedia page: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍; pinyin: Wò hǔ cáng lóng) is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai, based on the Chinese novel by Wang Dulu.
section_header: Themes and Interpretations | Title
text: The name "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" is a literal translation of the Chinese idiom "臥虎藏龙" which describes a place or situation that is full of unnoticed masters.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eugene V. Debs was an American socialist that ran for president in five straight elections and was in jail for the 5th one.
Wikipedia page: Eugene V. Debs (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.6% of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0%), 1908 (2.8%), 1912 (6.0%) and 1920 (3.4%), the last time from a prison cell.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Wise Blood is the only novel by Irish author Flannery O'Connor about highly religious thoughts and the necessity of faith.
Wikipedia page: Wise Blood (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The novel received little critical attention when it first appeared but has since come to be appreciated as a classic work of "low comedy and high seriousness" with disturbing religious themes.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hidalgo died from an unknown disease.
Wikipedia page: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Execution
text: He was then found guilty of treason by a military court and executed.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The song "John Brown's Body" has a mix of ideas and authors that  assert knowledge about the origin of the song.
Wikipedia page: John Brown's Body (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Various other authors have published additional verses or claimed credit for originating the John Brown lyrics and tune.
section_header: History of the tune
text: Some researchers have maintained that the tune's roots go back to a "Negro folk song", an African-American wedding song from Georgia, or to a British sea shanty that originated as a Swedish drinking song.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team that rivals the Red Sox
Wikipedia page: New York Yankees (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Rivalries | Boston Red Sox
text: For over 100 years, the Yankees and Boston Red Sox Yankees have been intense rivals.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: All the Quakers live in Africa.
Wikipedia page: Quakers (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In 2017, there were 377,557 adult Quakers, 49 per cent of them being in Africa.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sense and Sensibility was issued anonymously.
Wikipedia page: Sense and Sensibility (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The wall was built for ease of murder.
Wikipedia page: Berlin Wall (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Structure and adjacent areas | Layout and modifications
text: The death strip was covered with raked sand or gravel, rendering footprints easy to notice, easing the detection of trespassers and also enabling officers to see which guards had neglected their task; it offered no cover; and, most importantly, it offered clear fields of fire for the Wall guards.
section_header: Construction begins, 1961 | Secondary response
text: Such fatalities were later treated as acts of murder by the reunified Germany.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Seneca Falls Convention lead to other women's rights movements.
Wikipedia page: Seneca Falls Convention (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Stanton considered the Seneca Falls Convention to be the beginning of the women's rights movement, an opinion that was echoed in the History of Woman Suffrage, which Stanton co-wrote.
section_header: Historiography
text: In the early 1870s, Stanton and Anthony began to present Seneca Falls as the beginning of the women's rights movement, an origin story that downplayed Stone's role.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Charles Boyer was an actor that accumulated 4 best male actor recognition's but didn't ever take home the gold trophy .
Wikipedia page: Charles Boyer (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He received four Oscar nominations for Best Actor.
section_header: Awards
text: Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944) and Fanny (1961), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: He learned music in Vienna.
Wikipedia page: Fritz Kreisler (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography
text: He studied at the Vienna Conservatory under Anton Bruckner,
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Past employees have praised Amazon for a great and comfortable working environment.
Wikipedia page: Amazon (company) (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Controversies | Working conditions
text: Former employees, current employees, the media, and politicians have criticized Amazon for poor working conditions at the company.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Appian Way did connect the Southwest of the Roman empire to the Northwest of the Roman empire.
Wikipedia page: Appian Way (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mike Mussina played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1991–2000) and the New York Yankees (2001–2008), and is a five-time All-Star and six-time Gold Glove winner.
Wikipedia page: Mike Mussina (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A five-time All-Star and seven-time Gold Glove winner, Mussina's consistency resulted in six top-five finishes in the voting for his league's Cy Young Award.
section_header: Other career achievements
text: Seven-time Gold Glove award winner.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This planet sets record temperatures because of it's proximity to the sun.
Wikipedia page: Venus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System, with a mean surface temperature of 737 K (464 °C; 867 °F), even though Mercury is closer to the Sun.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The play is over the course of a few days.
Wikipedia page: Long Day's Journey Into Night (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The play takes place on a single day in August 1912, from around 8:30 a.m. to midnight.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Members of Billy Southworth's family played baseball at a professional level.
Wikipedia page: Billy Southworth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Southworth had a son, Billy Southworth Jr., and a cousin, Bill Southworth, who both played professional baseball.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cleopatra was born around 69 BC to become ruler of Egypt.
Wikipedia page: Cleopatra (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Cleopatra VII Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopátra Philopátōr; 69 – 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: King Lear is about a king and his female offspring fighting against the Persians.
Wikipedia page: King Lear (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters, after they declare their love for him in an extremely fawning and obsequious manner.
Verdict: REFUTES