tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Keanu Reeves has many controversies regarding his behaviour on and off set.
Wikipedia page: Keanu Reeves (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: In the media
text: Reeves' casual personality and ability to establish rapport with his manner have been observed by the public, leading him to be dubbed the "Internet's boyfriend".
section_header: Personal life
text: When asked by Stephen Colbert about his views on what happens after death, Reeves replied, "I know that the ones who love us will miss us".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Burleigh Grimes was one of the last person to be able to throw spit balls and played in three World Series.
Wikipedia page: Burleigh Grimes (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: MLB career
text: In four World Series appearances (1920, 1930-1932) In four World Series appearances (1920, 1930-1932) he hit .316 (6-for-19) with 1 run and 2 RBI.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The mother and father of Julian were Jewish.
Wikipedia page: Julian (emperor) (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Early life
text: Both of his parents were Christians.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mary was born and raised in France due to her father annulling his marriage to her mother but when she came of age and returned to Scotland the people welcomed her as an heir to the throne.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth I (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Mary, Queen of Scots
text: When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kim Kardashian has bad wrists.
Wikipedia page: Kim Kardashian (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Health and pregnancies
text: She was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in late 2017.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Luigi Cherubini passed away in Marseille.
Wikipedia page: Luigi Cherubini (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Old age and legacy
text: Cherubini died in Paris in 1842 at age 81 and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, just four metres from his friend Chopin.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the wife dies in a workplace accident.
Wikipedia page: The Jungle (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot summary
text: She dies in childbirth at age 18 from blood loss; the infant also dies -
section_header: Plot summary
text: The book begins with his wife Ona and his wedding feast.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dreamgirls' film starred many famous actors.
Wikipedia page: Dreamgirls (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Film adaptation
text: The film adaptation of Dreamgirls stars Jamie Foxx as Curtis, Beyoncé as Deena, Eddie Murphy as Jimmy, Danny Glover as Marty, Jennifer Hudson as Effie,
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: William Shakespeare was from England.
Wikipedia page: William Shakespeare (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Norma Shearer's child years were spent in Quebec.
Wikipedia page: Norma Shearer (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Her childhood was spent in Montreal, where she was educated at Montreal High School for Girls and Westmount High School.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The show premiered in 2007 and concluded in 2019.
Wikipedia page: The Big Bang Theory (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The show premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007 and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast a total of 279 episodes over twelve seasons.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland for a childhood friend he had named Alice who died when he was a teenager.
Wikipedia page: Alice in Wonderland (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Background | "All in the golden afternoon..."
text: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865, three years after Lewis Carroll and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, on 4 July, rowed up the Isis river in a boat with three young girls—a day known as the "golden afternoon," prefaced in the novel as a poem.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems.
Wikipedia page: Leaves of Grass (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: England is a country of the United Kingdom that got it's name from an old translation of an area for the heavenly spirits.
Wikipedia page: England (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Toponymy
text: The name "England" is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: At 21 years old, Bench earned the National League's MVP award.
Wikipedia page: Johnny Bench (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Major League Baseball career | 1970s
text: At age 22, he became the youngest player to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The exact day that Daniel Boone came into this world is unknown so that is why he has two birthdays.
Wikipedia page: Daniel Boone (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Because the Gregorian calendar was adopted during his lifetime, Boone's birth date is sometimes given as November 2, 1734 (the "New Style" date), although Boone used the October date.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Don Drysdale played for multiple teams throughout his career.
Wikipedia page: Don Drysdale (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: A right-handed pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers/Los Angeles Dodgers for his entire career in Major League Baseball
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The original manuscript of The Taming of the Shrew is widely agreed to be the best version of the play.
Wikipedia page: The Taming of the Shrew (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Analysis and criticism | Critical history | Hortensio problem
text: These revisions, Oliver says, relate primarily to the character of Hortensio, and suggest that in an original version of the play, now lost, Hortensio was not a suitor to Bianca, but simply an old friend of Petruchio.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The building was destroyed by the war in AD 618.
Wikipedia page: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Damage and destruction (614–1009)
text: This building was destroyed by a fire in May of AD 614, when the Sassanid Empire, under Khosrau II, invaded Jerusalem and captured the True Cross.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Benjamin Harrison grandfather and dad were presidents of the United States.
Wikipedia page: Benjamin Harrison (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, creating the only grandfather–grandson duo to have held the office.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: James Gillespie Blaine was not a very good orator.
Wikipedia page: James G. Blaine (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Nicknamed "the Magnetic Man", he was a charismatic speaker in an era that prized oratory.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There were mock trials in 2010 and Henry was found not guilty.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Agincourt (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Popular representations | Mock trial
text: Although an audience vote was "too close to call", Henry was unanimously found guilty by the court on the basis of "evolving standards of civil society".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Leonard Bernstein was a man of many of things including an author and wrote symphonies.
Wikipedia page: Leonard Bernstein (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Leonard Bernstein ( BURN-styne; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author, and lifelong humanitarian.
section_header: Summary
text: His works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bobby Robson was followed by Sam Taylor as he England national football team's manager.
Wikipedia page: England national football team (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Graham Taylor, Terry Venables, Glenn Hoddle and Kevin Keegan
text: Graham Taylor was Robson's immediate successor.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cum Posey's investments in the stock market caused him to lose ownership of his baseball team after the Great Crash of '29.
Wikipedia page: Cum Posey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Homestead Grays
text: The Grays' strong identity in Pennsylvania and surrounding states enabled them to survive the depths of the Great Depression.
section_header: Homestead Grays
text: He took control of the Grays in 1920 and turned them into a highly successful regional enterprise as an independent team.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Britney Spears had her own particular type of tinted sight devices.
Wikipedia page: Britney Spears (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Product and endorsements
text: In 2000, Spears released a limited edition of sunglasses titled Shades of Britney.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: With the Beatles became the first album in UK history to sell over a million copies.
Wikipedia page: The Beatles (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1963–1966: Beatlemania and touring years | Please Please Me and With the Beatles
text: With the Beatles became the second album in UK chart history to sell a million copies, a figure previously reached only by the 1958 South Pacific soundtrack.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Rip Van Winkle was referenced in a popular Japanese plumber simulation by way of an aquatic animal that's named after him.
Wikipedia page: Rip van Winkle (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: In popular culture | Video games
text: The 1990 video game Super Mario World features an enemy known as "Rip Van Fish" which constantly sleeps unless disturbed.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Different wavelengths along the electromagnetic spectrum move at different speeds through a vacuum.
Wikipedia page: Frequency (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Examples | Light
text: They all travel through a vacuum at the same speed (the speed of light), giving them wavelengths inversely proportional to their frequencies.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Marsha Mason has been married three times.
Wikipedia page: Marsha Mason (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: Shortly afterwards, Mason and Simon, a widower, fell in love and got married.
section_header: Personal life
text: Mason was married to actor Gary Campbell from 1965 until they divorced in 1970.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This mystery novel is about a fashion designer's lover being killed and then the investigation leads to the butler doing the killing.
Wikipedia page: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lemmon never won an Academy Award for any of his works.
Wikipedia page: Jack Lemmon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | 1979–2001: Later career
text: Lemmon was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in The China Syndrome (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Taj Mahal in India is a UNESCO World Heritage Site  that entombs the man who commissioned it.
Wikipedia page: Taj Mahal (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned from 1628 to 1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Mahabharata advocates betting, and shows the practice as non-harmful.
Wikipedia page: Mahabharata (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis | The dice game
text: In the dice game, Yudhishthira loses all his wealth, then his kingdom.
section_header: Synopsis | The dice game
text: Shakuni, Duryodhana's uncle, now arranges a dice game, playing against Yudhishthira with loaded dice.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gulliver's Travels primary form is verse written in iambic feet.
Wikipedia page: Gulliver's Travels (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The play Look Back in Anger is a political farce.
Wikipedia page: Look Back in Anger (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: This harsh realism has led to Look Back in Anger being considered one of the first examples of kitchen sink drama in theatre.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Colossus of Rhodes is mentioned in a play by Christopher Marlowe.
Wikipedia page: Colossus of Rhodes (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Posture
text: Shakespeare's Cassius in Julius Caesar (I, ii, 136–38) says of Caesar: Shakespeare alludes to the Colossus also in Troilus and Cressida (V.5) and in Henry IV, Part 1 (V.1).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Jallianwala Bagh massacre lead to the death of around 500 people.
Wikipedia page: Jallianwala Bagh massacre (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919, when Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, killing at least 379 people and injuring over 1,000 other people.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gandhi spent 25 years in South Africa where he developed his political views, ethics and politics.
Wikipedia page: Mahatma Gandhi (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Civil rights activist in South Africa (1893–1914)
text: He spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics and politics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It was on the BBC list of best novlels but it was removed in 2019.
Wikipedia page: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical reception
text: On 5 November 2019, the BBC listed Nineteen Eighty-Four on its list of the 100 most influential novels.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to use explosives in the House of Lords was intercepted because of a whistle blower's nameless letter.
Wikipedia page: Gunpowder Plot (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot | Monteagle letter
text: Suddenly a servant appeared saying he had been handed a letter for Lord Monteagle from a stranger in the road.
section_header: Summary
text: The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ester was first coined by French scientist Jacques Francois and is a chemical compound derived from an acid.
Wikipedia page: Ester (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Nomenclature | Etymology
text: The word ester was coined in 1848 by a German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther, "acetic ether".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Waite Hoyt became a full-time funeral director after his baseball career ended.
Wikipedia page: Waite Hoyt (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Broadcasting
text: After retiring as a player, Hoyt went into broadcasting.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hitachi owns companies in almost a dozen different market sectors.
Wikipedia page: Hitachi (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As of April 2019, Hitachi operates ten business segments, ranging from IT, including AI and big data, to Construction Machinery.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: How Green Was My Valley is a book from the late 1930's.
Wikipedia page: How Green Was My Valley (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: How Green How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Belgium has not been involved in any wars since WWI.
Wikipedia page: Belgium (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Independent Belgium
text: After World War II, a general strike forced King Leopold III to abdicate in 1951, since many Belgians felt he had collaborated with Germany during the war.
section_header: History | Independent Belgium
text: From September 1944 to February 1945 the Allies liberated Belgium.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Darius I was a Persian King.
Wikipedia page: Darius I (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Modern: Darəyaveš, Tiberian: Dārǝyāweš; c. 550–486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dubai is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and consumption of alcohol is not allowed.
Wikipedia page: Dubai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Government | Alcohol laws
text: Alcohol sale and consumption, though legal, is tightly regulated.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A parasite does not need a host.
Wikipedia page: Parasite (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In evolutionary ecology, parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Pericles along with several members of his family including his sister and both his illegitimate sons, Xanthippus and Paralus, succumbed to the Plague of Athens in 429 BC, which weakened the city-state during a protracted conflict with Sparta.
Wikipedia page: Pericles (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: His sister and both his legitimate sons, Xanthippus and Paralus, died during an epidemic of plague.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Poetess Elizabeth Barrett was an inspiration for Edgar Allen Poe in his composition of  "The Raven."
Wikipedia page: The Raven (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Analysis | Poetic structure
text: Poe based the structure of "The Raven" on the complicated rhyme and rhythm of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Nero was a poet, musician, painter, and sculptor.
Wikipedia page: Nero (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Pursuits
text: Nero studied poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Color Purple is a song by Bob Marley.
Wikipedia page: The Color Purple (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vedas are religious texts that are used by non-Islamic believers.
Wikipedia page: Vedas (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Great Pyramid of Giza is an old structure.
Wikipedia page: Great Pyramid of Giza (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Although Anita Borg was a successful and talented, female computer scientist, she's been criticized for not doing more to promote women in the tech industry.
Wikipedia page: Anita Borg (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Career | Awards and recognition
text: Borg was recognized for her accomplishments as a computer scientist, as well as for her work on behalf of women in computing.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Free Soil Party did not merge with the democratic party.
Wikipedia page: Free Soil Party (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Hoyt Wilhelm was a baseball player in the Majors whose birthplace is in the Carolinas.
Wikipedia page: Hoyt Wilhelm (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He was one of eleven children born to poor tenant farmers John and Ethel (née Stanley) Wilhelm in Huntersville, North Carolina.
section_header: Summary
text: James Hoyt Wilhelm (July 26, 1922 – August 23, 2002), nicknamed "Old Sarge", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the New York Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers between 1952 and 1972.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It is one of the many links between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
Wikipedia page: Channel Tunnel (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Taking snapshots were prohibited for weeks after the battle  because the sheer amount of bodies was deemed too distressing to the morals of civilians.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Antietam (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Historic photographs and paintings | Mathew Brady's gallery, "The Dead of Antietam" (1862)
text: On September 19, 1862, two days after the Battle of Antietam, Mathew Brady sent photographer Alexander Gardner and his assistant James Gibson to photograph the carnage.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Rossini worked in Naples in 1813.
Wikipedia page: Gioachino Rossini (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Music | Italy, 1813–1823
text: From the end of 1813 to mid-1814 he was in Milan creating two new operas for La Scala, Aureliano in Palmira and Il Turco in Italia.
section_header: Music | Italy, 1813–1823
text: Rossini's first operas for Naples, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra and La gazzetta were both largely recycled from earlier works, but Otello (1816) is marked not only by its virtuoso vocal lines but by its masterfully integrated last act, with its drama underlined by melody, orchestration and tonal colour; here, in Gossett's opinion "Rossini came of age as a dramatic artist." He further comments: The growth of Rossini's style from Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra to Zelmira and, ultimately, Semiramide, is a direct consequence of th[e]
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Georgia's largest city is Columbus.
Wikipedia page: Georgia (U.S. state) (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Atlanta, a "beta(+)" global city, is both the state's capital and its largest city.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: For Electric current, the electrons travel in the opposite direction as the current.
Wikipedia page: Electric current (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Conduction mechanisms in various media
text: So, in metals where the charge carriers (electrons) are negative, conventional current is in the opposite direction to the overall electron movement.
section_header: Conventions
text: Since electrons, the charge carriers in metal wires and most other parts of electric circuits, have a negative charge, as a consequence, they flow in the opposite direction of conventional current flow in an electrical circuit.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Reynolds is the only member of his siblings that got into acting.
Wikipedia page: Ryan Reynolds (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Two of his brothers work in law enforcement in British Columbia, with one being a Mountie.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Deborah Kerr was honored with a prestigious military ranking, but was too sick to attend the ceremony because she was unwell.
Wikipedia page: Deborah Kerr (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Honours
text: Deborah Kerr was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1998, but was unable to accept the honour in person because of ill health.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The current location of Ancient Corinth is about 10 km West of Athens.
Wikipedia page: Ancient Corinth (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The modern city of Corinth is located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of the ancient ruins.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The mother of Duke Ellington, a New York based jazz composer, both played piano.
Wikipedia page: Duke Ellington (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: Both his parents were pianists.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Singapore or also known as the Republic of Singapore has 4 recognized languages.
Wikipedia page: Singapore (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics | Languages
text: Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Coldplay's members all met on an Apple Campus in Cupertino.
Wikipedia page: Coldplay (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer Will Champion met at University College London and began playing music together from 1996 to 1998, first calling themselves Pectoralz and then Starfish before finally changing their name to Coldplay.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dracula was written by an English writer.
Wikipedia page: Dracula (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: George VI asked his wife to marry him two times before she said yes.
Wikipedia page: George VI (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Marriage
text: She rejected his proposal twice, in 1921 and 1922, reportedly because she was reluctant to make the sacrifices necessary to become a member of the royal family.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ozzie Smith fathered four children including three boys and one girl.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: Smith is the father to three children from his marriage to former wife Denise; sons Nikko and Dustin, and daughter Taryn.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Alice in Wonderland didn't have a sequel.
Wikipedia page: Alice in Wonderland (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Publication history | Publication timeline
text: He talks with her about her reflection in a mirror, leading to the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, which sells even better.
section_header: Summary
text: Carroll published a sequel in 1871, entitled Through the Looking-Glass, and a shortened version for young children, The Nursery "Alice", in 1890.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Beach Boys had their first professional musical job at a dance in California.
Wikipedia page: The Beach Boys (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1962–1967: Peak years | Surfin' Safari, Surfin' U.S.A., Surfer Girl, and Little Deuce Coupe
text: By this time the de facto manager of the Beach Boys, Murry landed the group's first paying gig (for which they earned $300) on New Year's Eve, 1961, at the Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance in Long Beach.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sarandon has been married once but has had quite a few relationships.
Wikipedia page: Susan Sarandon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: While in college, Susan Tomalin met fellow student Chris Sarandon, a Greek-American, and the couple married on September 16, 1967.
section_header: Personal life
text: She was then involved romantically with director Louis Malle, musician David Bowie and briefly, actor Sean Penn.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kerensky spent the last part of his life in France and the U.S.
Wikipedia page: Alexander Kerensky (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He spent the remainder of his life in exile, in Paris and New York City, and worked for the Hoover Institution.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller film about Private William James who does bomb disposal.
Wikipedia page: The Hurt Locker (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In 2004, Sergeant First Class William James arrives as the new team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit in the Iraq War.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Mexico consists of around ten to twelve percent of the world's biodiversity.
Wikipedia page: Mexico (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Geography | Biodiversity
text: With over 200,000 different species, Mexico is home of 10–12% of the world's biodiversity.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: As a kid, Jimmy Carter was a member of FFA.
Wikipedia page: Jimmy Carter (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Education
text: As an adolescent, Carter played on the Plains High School basketball team; he also joined the Future Farmers of America and developed a lifelong interest in woodworking.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An American Tragedy is based on a true story.
Wikipedia page: An American Tragedy (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Influences and characteristics
text: Dreiser based the book on a notorious criminal case.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher.
Wikipedia page: Pythagoras (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jane Eyre is an 1847 book by Edward Rochester.
Wikipedia page: Jane Eyre (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jane Eyre  (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London.
section_header: Plot
text: The second edition was dedicated to William Makepeace Thackeray.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Uganda is a city in Africa.
Wikipedia page: Uganda (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ivanhoe is an old novel by a Scottish author depicting life during the medieval age in England.
Wikipedia page: Ivanhoe (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ivanhoe is set in 12th-century England with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial and divisions between Jews and Christians.
section_header: Allusions to real history and geography | Historical accuracy
text: However, Scott may have intended to suggest parallels between the Norman conquest of England, about 130 years previously, and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland (Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: United States Military Academy has a few traditions.
Wikipedia page: United States Military Academy (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Traditions
text: Due to West Point's age and its unique mission of producing Army officers, it has many time-honored traditions.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the third part of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Wikipedia page: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is the second installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Albert Finney had a child.
Wikipedia page: Albert Finney (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life and death
text: With his first wife, Jane Wenham, he had a son,  Simon Finney, who works in the film industry as a camera operator.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ty Cobb birthplace is Birmingham, Alabama.
Wikipedia page: Ty Cobb (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Cobb was born in 1886 in Narrows, Georgia, a small rural community of farmers that was unincorporated.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Aaron beat did not beat Ruth's record but came close.
Wikipedia page: Hank Aaron (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: MLB career | Breaking Ruth's record
text: Aaron himself downplayed the "chase" to surpass Babe Ruth, while baseball enthusiasts and the national media grew increasingly excited as he closed in on the 714 career home runs record.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Petronas Towers are not in a video game, but there have been several video game towers directly inspired by them.
Wikipedia page: Petronas Towers (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: In popular culture
text: In 2010's Just Cause 2, the fictional Panau Falls Casino is based on the Petronas Towers.
section_header: In popular culture
text: Eidos Interactive has twice used the towers for inspiration in their video games.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bud Selig tried to stop his club from going to Atlanta.
Wikipedia page: Bud Selig (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Milwaukee Brewers owner
text: As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc., in an attempt to prevent the majority owners (based out of Chicago) from moving the club to a larger television market.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Memoirs of a Geisha was a book and movie about a nonfictional geisha named Chiyo.
Wikipedia page: Memoirs of a Geisha (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the story of a fictional geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before, during and after World War II and ends with her being relocated to New York City.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A big theme for the poem is the concept of coming home.
Wikipedia page: The Death of the Hired Man (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Themes
text: A major theme in the poem is that of the ‘home’ or homecoming.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Burj Khalifa tried to commit suicide numerous times.
Wikipedia page: Burj Khalifa (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎, Arabic pronunciation: [bʊrd͡ʒ xaˈliːfa]; pronounced English: ), known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
section_header: Summary
text: The building broke numerous height records, including its designation as the tallest building in the world.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gehrig played first base for the New York Yankees.
Wikipedia page: Lou Gehrig (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Henry Louis Gehrig (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig; June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jane Alexander has been married twice and has one son.
Wikipedia page: Jane Alexander (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: The two became good friends and, once divorced from their respective spouses, became romantically involved, marrying in 1975.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Samuel Barber was an American composer.
Wikipedia page: Samuel Barber (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: In 1997, the clocked stopped 24 hours before the general elections.
Wikipedia page: Big Ben (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Clock | Breakdowns and other incidents | 20th century
text: : The clock stopped 24 hours before the general election, and stopped again three weeks later.
section_header: Clock | Breakdowns and other incidents | 20th century
text: March 1986 and January 1987: The problem of the rubber bushings on the quarter bell chimes freezing recurred, muffling the chimes.30 April 1997
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Brazil national football team is one of three teams with five of the most important football titles.
Wikipedia page: Brazil national football team (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Brazil is the only national team to have played in all World Cup editions without any absence nor need for playoffs.
section_header: Competitive record | FIFA World Cup
text: With five titles, they have won the tournament on more occasions than any other national team.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Henry Clay set free the slaves he had when he became Speaker of the House.
Wikipedia page: Henry Clay (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Ideology and slavery | Slavery and the Dupuy case
text: Clay's will freed all the slaves he held at the time of his death.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the highest population density, and is planned to become the greenest city in the world by 2020.
Wikipedia page: Vancouver (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Charles Radbourn played in Major League baseball and had six siblings all raised in Illinois who called him Buffalo Gray.
Wikipedia page: Charles Radbourn (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Radbourn was born on December 11, 1854, in Rochester, New York, the second of eight children to Charles and Caroline (Gardner) Radbourn.
section_header: Summary
text: Charles Gardner Radbourn (December 11, 1854 – February 5, 1897), nicknamed "Old Hoss", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Taj Mahal contains Jahan's favorite wife.
Wikipedia page: Shah Jahan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Shah Jahan commissioned many monuments, the best known of which is the Taj Mahal in Agra, which entombs his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It has been referred to in popular literature.
Wikipedia page: Black Hole of Calcutta (History)
Evidence:
section_header: In popular culture | Literature
text: Thomas Pynchon refers to the Black Hole of Calcutta in the historical novel Mason & Dixon (1997).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1934 film One Night of Love Mary does not go on stage because she is too nervous.
Wikipedia page: One Night of Love (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: On the night of her debut in Madame Butterfly, Mary is too nervous to go on stage until she sees Giulio in his usual place in the prompter's box.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ariana Grande owns a drink company.
Wikipedia page: Ariana Grande (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Endorsements
text: In October 2014, Grande joined the bottled water brand WAT-AAH!
section_header: Other ventures | Endorsements
text: as an equity holder and partner.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jacques Offenbach was a mighty influencer as a model of the opera genre.
Wikipedia page: Jacques Offenbach (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss Jr. and Arthur Sullivan.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John Brown led raids to help confederate states win the civil war and uphold slavery in the southern U.S.
Wikipedia page: John Brown (abolitionist) (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Brown then commanded anti-slavery forces at the Battle of Black Jack (June 2) and the Battle of Osawatomie (August 30, 1856).
section_header: Summary
text: Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: It was written in 1920.
Wikipedia page: The Emperor Jones (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill that tells the tale of Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes to a small, backward Caribbean island where he sets himself up as emperor.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Whitey Herzog made his MLB debut as a player in 1956 with the Washington Senators, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 25, 2010, and was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum on August 16, 2014.
Wikipedia page: Whitey Herzog (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Born in New Athens, Illinois, Herzog made his MLB debut as a player in 1956 with the Washington Senators.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The capital of of Brazil Rio de Janeiro is mostly Catholic and has a rapidly growing population.
Wikipedia page: Rio de Janeiro (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state, after São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Istanbul is considered to be the biggest city of the European continent.
Wikipedia page: Istanbul (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: With a total population of around fifteen million residents in its metropolitan area, Istanbul is one of the world's largest cities by population, ranking as the world's fifteenth-largest city and the largest city in Europe.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Wilbert Robinson's teammate played a practical joke that had him convinced he was dying.
Wikipedia page: Wilbert Robinson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Robinson and Ruth Law
text: The grapefruit made such a mess that Robinson thought he had lost his eye because of the acid and the bloodlike splatter that covered him.
section_header: Robinson and Ruth Law
text: Outfielder Casey Stengel, later a successful manager himself, is generally believed to have convinced Law to make the switch.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian that was arrested in Brazil in 1960.
Wikipedia page: Adolf Eichmann (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina on 11 May 1960 and subsequently found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Jerusalem, where he was executed by hanging in 1962.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Warren Giles' time with the Cincinnati Reds was a baseball executive and not a player.
Wikipedia page: Warren Giles (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Giles spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball as club president and general manager of the Cincinnati Reds (1937–1951) and president of the National League (1951–1969), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
section_header: Hall of Fame honors
text: Giles was elected to the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1969 and the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1979 shortly after his death in Cincinnati at age 82.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cardinal Mazarin studied with monks in Milan.
Wikipedia page: Cardinal Mazarin (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Through the influence of the Colonnas, Giulio was admitted at the age of seven to the Jesuit College in Rome, the most respected school in the city.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In 2018, the Incredibles 2 best market in term of revenues outside of the United States was the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia page: Incredibles 2 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Box office | Internationally
text: As of November 18, 2018, The biggest markets in terms of total earnings are the United Kingdom ($73.1 million), followed by China ($51.5 million), Japan ($43.9 million), France ($41.7 million), and Brazil ($37.6 million).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Scott's dad passed away and he grew up with his mom.
Wikipedia page: George C. Scott (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His mother died just before his eighth birthday, and he was raised by his father, an executive at Buick.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Work is a piece of poetry composed by an old Grecian writer about 700 BC and is 828 lines long.
Wikipedia page: Works and Days (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Works and Days (Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, Erga kai Hēmerai) is a didactic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Molitor coached the same team he played for after he retired.
Wikipedia page: Paul Molitor (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Molitor served as a coach for the Seattle Mariners and the Twins after his retirement as a player.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bresnahan was sometimes referred to as "The Duke of Tralee".
Wikipedia page: Roger Bresnahan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Roger Philip Bresnahan (June 11, 1879 – December 4, 1944), nicknamed "The Duke of Tralee", was an American player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Prince passed from an overdose.
Wikipedia page: Prince (musician) (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: In April 2016, at the age of 57, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mike Mussina is a former Major League Baseball pitcher that pitched four years at Stanford University before getting his degree in economics.
Wikipedia page: Mike Mussina (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: College career
text: In three years with the Cardinal, Mussina compiled a 31–16 record with a 3.89 ERA.
section_header: College career
text: His junior year in 1990 was his best, finishing 14–5 with a 0.99 ERA before being drafted again by the Baltimore Orioles, this time as a first round pick (20th overall).Mussina graduated from Stanford in 1990 with a degree in economics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The baseball player, Bob Lemon, is a Californian who won a World Series in 1948.
Wikipedia page: Bob Lemon (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Lemon was raised in California where he played high school baseball and was the state player of the year in 1938.
section_header: Summary
text: The Indians played in the 1948 World Series and were helped by Lemon's two pitching wins as they won the club's first championship since 1920.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Lady of the Lake only has one place.
Wikipedia page: The Lady of the Lake (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: The Lady's lake
text: A number of locations are traditionally associated with the Lady of the Lake's abode.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ozzie Smith has inspired a statue in which he's diving, parallel to the ground, because of how much he was in the air when he played.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Post-playing career
text: Weber chose to emphasize Smith's defensive skills by showing Smith stretched horizontal to the ground while fielding a baseball.
section_header: Post-playing career
text: Days later on August 11, Smith was back at Busch Memorial Stadium for the unveiling of a statue in his likeness made by sculptor Harry Weber.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Burt Lancaster died at his apartment in Century City, California, after suffering a third heart attack at 4:50 am on October 20, 1994, at the age of 80 in which , upon his death no memorial or funeral service was held for him.
Wikipedia page: Burt Lancaster (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: As he had previously requested, upon his death no memorial or funeral service was held for him.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Gioachino Rossini's grandfather baked for a living.
Wikipedia page: Gioachino Rossini (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | Early life
text: He was the only child of Giuseppe Rossini, a trumpeter and horn player, and his wife Anna, née Guidarini, a seamstress by trade, daughter of a baker.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sidney Poitier did not act well in The Defiant Ones.
Wikipedia page: The Defiant Ones (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: The performances by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are virtually flawless.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Gossage has been referred to by several names in MLB.
Wikipedia page: Rich Gossage (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The nickname "Goose" came about when a friend did not like his previous nickname "Goss", and noted he looked like a goose when he extended his neck to read the signs given by the catcher when he was pitching.
Verdict: SUPPORTS