tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Long Day's Journey into Night takes place over the course of one day and exposes the main characters (author's family) in a very negative way.
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.
section_header: Summary
text: This play portrays a family in a ferociously negative light as the parents and two sons express accusations, blame, and resentments—qualities that are often paired with pathetic and self-defeating attempts at affection, encouragement, tenderness, and yearnings for things to be otherwise.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Shay's Rebellion ended with 4000 people signing confessions for amnesty and most people involved were not punished, however 18 men were sentenced to death.
Wikipedia page: Shays' Rebellion (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Consequences
text: Eighteen men were convicted and sentenced to death, but most of these were overturned on appeal, pardoned, or had the sentences commuted.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The film, Elizabeth is a movie about the life of the British monarch.
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Elizabeth is a 1998 British biographical drama film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant, and Richard Attenborough.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Maryam Mirzakhani attended a top US university.
Wikipedia page: Maryam Mirzakhani (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Awards and honors
text: Merit fellowship Harvard University, 2003
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Van Halen is an American rock band formed by two American siblings, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen.
Wikipedia page: Van Halen (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1972–1977: Formation and early history
text: The Van Halen brothers were born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Alex Van Halen in 1953 and Eddie Van Halen in 1955, sons to Dutch musician Jan Van Halen and Indonesian-born Indo Eugenia Van Beers.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jane Fonda once had a picture taken in an anti-vehicular weapon owned by her country's enemies.
Wikipedia page: Jane Fonda (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Political activism | Opposition to the Vietnam War | Regrets
text: Fonda said, " The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope Gregory VII held his prominent religious role for 15 years.
Wikipedia page: Pope Gregory VII (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Pope Gregory VII ( Latin: Gregorius VII; c. 1015 – 25 May 1085), born Hildebrand of Sovana (
section_header: Summary
text: Italian: Ildebrando da Soana), was pope from 22 April 1073 to his death in 1085.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Finney won the BAFTA TV Best Actor award many times.
Wikipedia page: Albert Finney (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Awards and honours | BAFTA Awards
text: 1996 Best Actor (BAFTA TV Awards) for Karaoke/Cold Lazarus
section_header: Awards and honours | BAFTA Awards
text: 1998 Best Actor (BAFTA TV Awards) for A Rather English Marriage
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Cab Calloway sometimes played hooky so that he could make money.
Wikipedia page: Cab Calloway (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He often skipped school to earn money by selling newspapers, shining shoes, and cooling down horses at the Pimlico racetrack where he developed an interest for racing and betting the horses.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Wembley Stadium is a stadium in London that can seat over 85,000.
Wikipedia page: Wembley Stadium (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Sports | Rugby union
text: Although the 90,000 seat Wembley was the largest stadium used during the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the World Cup Final was held at the 82,000 seat Twickenham Stadium, the traditional home of the tournament's host, England's Rugby Football Union.
section_header: Summary
text: Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-purpose stadium in Wembley, London.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rube embarked on his minor league career in 1907 when he went 23–13 with a 2.01 earned run average.
Wikipedia page: Rube Marquard (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: In 1912, he led the league with 26 wins.
section_header: Career
text: He started his minor league baseball career in 1906.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Wilson died very wealthy and had a very elaborate funeral.
Wikipedia page: Hack Wilson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Life after baseball
text: Though the accident did not appear serious at first, pneumonia and other complications developed and he died of internal hemorrhaging on November 23, 1948, at the age of 48.Wilson — once the highest-paid player in the National League — died penniless; his son, Robert, refused to claim his remains.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: William Wallace's body was sunk into a pond after he was executed for treason.
Wikipedia page: William Wallace (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Capture and execution
text: His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge.
section_header: Capture and execution
text: His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Perth.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Stallone is a devout Catholic.
Wikipedia page: Sylvester Stallone (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Religious views
text: Later, he rediscovered his childhood faith, when his daughter was born ill in 1996, and he again became a strict Catholic.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bergmann never won any awards of renown for any of her performances.
Wikipedia page: Ingrid Bergman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She won many accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The tower was built and designed by a Chinese firm and erected in Shanghai in 2014.
Wikipedia page: Shanghai Tower (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Shanghai Tower (Chinese: 上海中心大厦; pinyin: Shànghǎi Zhōngxīn Dàshà; Shanghainese: Zånhe Tsonshin Dasa; lit.: 'Shanghai Center Building') is a 632-metre (2,073 ft), 128-story megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.
section_header: Summary
text: Designed by international design firm Gensler and owned by the Shanghai city government, it is the tallest of the world's first triple-adjacent supertall buildings in Pudong, the other two being the Jin Mao Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Heathrow Airport  was built in the 1920s
Wikipedia page: Heathrow Airport (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Heathrow Airport originated in 1929 as a small airfield (Great West Aerodrome) on land south-east of the hamlet of Heathrow from which the airport takes its name.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Packers are the only national football team to win 3 titles in a row.
Wikipedia page: Green Bay Packers (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Championships | League Championships
text: The Packers are also the only team to win three consecutive NFL titles, having accomplished this twice – from 1929 to 1931 under Lambeau, and from 1965 to 1967 under Lombardi.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The American actor, director, and producer Denzel Washington has one two Golden Globes, one Tony and two Academy Awards attend Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Wikipedia page: Denzel Washington (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: So when I was in high school, I wanted to go to Texas Tech in Lubbock just because they were called the Red Raiders and their uniforms looked like ours." He earned a BA in Drama and Journalism from Fordham University in 1977.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: While in college, Mickey Cochrane did excel at soccer and football.
Wikipedia page: Mickey Cochrane (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career | Philadelphia Athletics
text: Cochrane was educated at Boston University, where he played five sports, excelling at football and basketball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Verisign is the parent company of two subsidiaries.
Wikipedia page: Verisign (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: History
text: Verisign operates two businesses, Naming Services, which encompasses the operation of top-level domains and critical Internet infrastructure, and Network Intelligence and Availability (NIA) Services, which encompasses DDoS mitigation, managed DNS and threat intelligence.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Joanne Woodward is the most elderly winner of the Academy award  not to be dead; an honor bestowed for her part in The Three Faces of Eve.
Wikipedia page: Joanne Woodward (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Upon the death of Olivia de Havilland in July 2020 she became the oldest living Best Actress Academy Award winner.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jamaican political activist Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a black nationalist who helped found the Back-to-Africa movement and worked against the KKK.
Wikipedia page: Marcus Garvey (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Many commentators have argued that the trial was politically motivated; Garvey blamed Jewish people, claiming that they were prejudiced against him because of his links to the KKK.
section_header: Summary
text: However, his black separatist views—and his collaboration with white racists such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to advance their shared interest in racial separatism—divided Garvey from other prominent African-American civil rights activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois who promoted racial integration.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Eugène Ysaÿe's second wife was his student.
Wikipedia page: Eugène Ysaÿe (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: After Louise's death (9 February 1924) he married a pupil of his, Jeanette Dincin (1902–1967), 44 years his junior.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Houses have a variety of different roofs to protect them from water damage.
Wikipedia page: House (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Houses use a range of different roofing systems to keep precipitation such as rain from getting into the dwelling space.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jupiter can be seen from earth without using a telescope.
Wikipedia page: Jupiter (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jupiter is one of the brightest objects visible to the naked eye in the night sky, and has been known to ancient civilizations since before recorded history.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Rixey started out his career with the Braves.
Wikipedia page: Eppa Rixey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Baseball career | Philadelphia Phillies
text: Rixey joined the Phillies for the 1912 season without playing a single game of minor league baseball.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Julianne Moore never was ranked in any top 100 lists and was born in Fort Bragg.
Wikipedia page: Julianne Moore (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Time magazine named Moore one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Newcastle United F.C. has been a team in the Premier League every season since their beginning.
Wikipedia page: Newcastle United F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The club has been a member of the Premier League for all but three years of the competition's history, spending 88 seasons in the top flight as of July 2020, and have never dropped below English football's second tier since joining the Football League in 1893.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Bee Gees meet the Microsoft CEO before he and they made it big at a concert in Brisbane.
Wikipedia page: Bee Gees (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | 1955–1966: Music origins, Bee Gees formation and popularity in Australia
text: They were introduced to Brisbane radio presenter jockey Bill Gates by speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired the brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: A glacier is a body of dense ice and 50 percent of the glacial ice is in sheets.
Wikipedia page: Glacier (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets (also known as "continental glaciers") in the polar regions, but glaciers may be found in mountain ranges on every continent including Oceania's high-latitude oceanic island countries such as New Zealand.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Burt Lancaster was known to play the "tough guy" in films and was on Broadway.
Wikipedia page: Burt Lancaster (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Initially known for playing "tough guys" with a tender heart, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in film and, later, television.
section_header: Summary
text: After serving in World War II, the 32-year-old Lancaster landed a role in a Broadway play and drew the attention of a Hollywood agent.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Irène Joliot-Curie was the daughter of a famous scientist.
Wikipedia page: Irène Joliot-Curie (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] (listen); 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist, and a politician of Polish ancestry, the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Wikipedia page: Philip Glass (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: John McGraw was a baseball player and used to hold the record in the majors for being thrown out of a game.
Wikipedia page: John McGraw (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: McGraw also held the MLB record for most ejections by a manager (132) until Bobby Cox broke the record in 2007.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Chick Hafey played for three Major League Baseball teams.
Wikipedia page: Chick Hafey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Playing for the St. Louis Cardinals (1924–1931) and Cincinnati Reds (1932–1935, 1937), Hafey was a strong line-drive hitter who batted for a high average on a consistent basis.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey received was nominated for three oscars.
Wikipedia page: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Accolades
text: The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling as well as praise from critics organization Broadcast Film Critics Association and from critics groups, such as the Houston Film Critics Society, Phoenix Film Critics Society and Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Billy Southworth participated in over 1200 games.
Wikipedia page: Billy Southworth (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As a player in 1913 and 1915 and from 1918 to 1929 for five big-league teams, Southworth took part in almost 1,200 games, fell just short of 1,300 hits and batted .297 lifetime.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Battle of the Bulge happened in three different countries
Wikipedia page: Battle of the Bulge (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bacchae was translated in 1866.
Wikipedia page: Bacchae (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Translations
text: Theodore Alois Buckley, 1850: prose Henry Hart Milman, 1865: verse
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 did receive two nominations.
Wikipedia page: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Additionally, it received two nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards: Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Anti-Masonic Party was a liberal-leaning political organization in the United States, founded in New York after the conclusion of the French and Indian War.
Wikipedia page: Anti-Masonic Party (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: Scholars have identified the Anti-Masonic Party as "the first right-wing reactionary movement in American politics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ellington's career lasted 3 decades.
Wikipedia page: Duke Ellington (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Jude the Obscure raises problems such as war, inequality or sexual orientation.
Wikipedia page: Jude the Obscure (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Walter Alston was called Smokey because of how fast he was able to throw a ball.
Wikipedia page: Walter Alston (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Alston attended Milford Township High School in Darrtown, and received the nickname "Smokey" as a high school pitcher, owing to the speed of his fastball.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Umayyads built big Muslim places of worship.
Wikipedia page: Umayyad Caliphate (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Architecture
text: Throughout the Levant, Egypt and North Africa, the Umayyads constructed grand congregational mosques and desert palaces, as well as various garrison cities (amsar) to fortify their frontiers such as Fustat, Kairouan, Kufa, Basra and Mansura.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: This was a statue of the goddess Athena.
Wikipedia page: Colossus of Rhodes (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Rhódios Greek: Rhódios Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tes Rhódou) was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Cy Young retired in 1911 and still holds the record for most career wins in the MLB.
Wikipedia page: Cy Young (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He finished his career with the Cleveland Naps and Boston Rustlers, retiring in 1911.
section_header: Summary
text: He holds MLB records for the most career wins, with 511, along with most career innings pitched, games started, and complete games.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, included the Phoenician colony of Syracuse around 750 BC.
Wikipedia page: Sicily (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Antiquity
text: From about 750 BC, the Greeks began to live in Sicily (Σικελία – Sikelia), establishing many important settlements.
section_header: History | Antiquity
text: The most important colony was in Syracuse; others were located at Akragas, Selinunte, Gela, Himera and Zancle.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: George Strait was known for dressing like a real cowboy.
Wikipedia page: George Strait (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is known for his neotraditionalist country style, cowboy look, and being one of the first and most prominent country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop country era in the 1980s.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Kanye West's 'Yeezy'  fashion  has an arm devoted to building homes and real estate.
Wikipedia page: Kanye West (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Other ventures | Architecture
text: West announced the decision on his Twitter account, tweeting "we’re starting a Yeezy architecture arm called Yeezy home.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Ottoman Empire gained additional power and territory  from the Congress of Berlin.
Wikipedia page: Congress of Berlin (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As a result, Ottoman lands in Europe declined sharply, Bulgaria was established as an independent principality within the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Rumelia was restored to the Ottoman Empire under a special administration and the region of Macedonia was returned outright to the Ottoman Empire, which promised reform.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dallas Buyers Club is an American biographical drama movie with a fictional supporting cast.
Wikipedia page: Dallas Buyers Club (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Two fictional supporting characters, Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner), and Rayon (Jared Leto), were composite roles created from the writers' interviews with transgender AIDS patients, activists, and doctors.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist advancing the x-ray technique to further her research and became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Wikipedia page: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin as previously surmised by Edward Abraham and Ernst Boris Chain; and the structure of vitamin B12, for which in 1964 she became the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Charles Sumner was an American politician and United States Senator that fell into a dispute with President Ulysses Grant, a fellow Republican, over the control of Santo Domingo leading to the stripping of his power in the Senate and his subsequent effort to defeat Grant's re-election
Wikipedia page: Charles Sumner (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Poland received its title from a German word, meaning "lush land."
Wikipedia page: Poland (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Etymology
text: The origin of the name Polanie itself derives from the Proto-Slavic word pole (field).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Winter's Tale's name signaled to people of the time that they were about see a tragedy.
Wikipedia page: The Winter's Tale (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Analysis and criticism | Title of the play
text: A play called "The Winter's Tale" would immediately indicate to contemporary audiences that the work would present an "idle tale", an old wives' tale not intended to be realistic and offering the promise of a happy ending.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Part of Audrey Hepburn's childhood was spent in the Netherlands when it was occupied by the Germans in World War II.
Wikipedia page: Audrey Hepburn (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Experiences during World War II (1939–1945)
text: After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Hepburn used the name Edda van Heemstra, because an "English-sounding" name was considered dangerous during the German occupation.
section_header: Early life | Experiences during World War II (1939–1945)
text: Her family was profoundly affected by the occupation, with Hepburn later stating that "had we known that we were going to be occupied for five years, we might have all shot ourselves.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Catcher in the Rye is only available in English.
Wikipedia page: The Catcher in the Rye (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has been translated widely.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Brokeback Mountain is an American movie that had Heath Ledger and Anne Williams that grossed $178 million.
Wikipedia page: Brokeback Mountain (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams and depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist in the American West from 1963 to 1983.Lee became attached to the project after a series of attempts to adapt the short story into a film by various directors never materialized.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: During the wall period, over 100,000 people attempted to escape.
Wikipedia page: Berlin Wall (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: During this period, over 100,000 people attempted to escape, and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Elmer Flick's baseball career took off when he replaced a well know outfielder in 1898 because of a boo boo.
Wikipedia page: Elmer Flick (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Flick was pressed into a starting role in 1898 when an injury forced another player to retire.
section_header: Summary
text: Elmer Harrison Flick (January 11, 1876 – January 9, 1971) was an American professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1898 to 1910 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Bronchos/Naps.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Onegin was only translated into English because Pushkin thought if readers did not know Russian they knew English.
Wikipedia page: Eugene Onegin (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Translations | Into other languages | German
text: There are at least a dozen published translations of Onegin in German.
section_header: Translations | Into other languages | Italian
text: There are several Italian translations of Onegin.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Branch Rickey did not go to college.
Wikipedia page: Branch Rickey (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He graduated from Valley High School in Lucasville, Ohio, in 1899, and he was a catcher on the baseball team at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he obtained his B.A. Rickey
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Henry Hudson is a French traveler.
Wikipedia page: Henry Hudson (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) 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.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Sylvester Stallone's first film was not Rocky.
Wikipedia page: Sylvester Stallone (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The government commissioners President Washington sent to meet with a committee of westerners during the Whiskey Rebellion were from New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.
Wikipedia page: Whiskey Rebellion (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Insurrection | Federal response | Negotiations
text: In early August 1794, Washington dispatched three commissioners to the west, all of them Pennsylvanians: Attorney General William Bradford, Justice Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Senator James Ross.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: There are 3 British naval vessels bearing the name Altair.
Wikipedia page: Altair (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Etymology, mythology, and culture
text: Altair is the name of three United States navy ships: USS Altair (AD-11), USS Altair (AK-257) and USNS Altair (T-AKR-291).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Babel was based in three counties.
Wikipedia page: Babel (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: King Charles I died of what many suspected to be typhoid in 1649.
Wikipedia page: Charles I of England (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments, and helped precipitate his own downfall.
section_header: Summary
text: Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Leone never worked until she started acting.
Wikipedia page: Sunny Leone (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Pornographic career
text: Before working in the porn industry, she worked at a German bakery, a Jiffy Lube, and later a tax and retirement firm.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The series ran from 2005 to 2016.
Wikipedia page: How I Met Your Mother (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The series, which ran from 2005 to 2014, follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in New York City's Manhattan.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The top of the Washington Monument is not the same color as the part near the ground.
Wikipedia page: Washington Monument (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Construction | Resumption
text: The bottom third of the monument is a slightly lighter shade than the rest of the construction because the marble was obtained from different quarries.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American singer Janet Jackson explored sexual ideas.
Wikipedia page: Janet Jackson (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Her fifth album Janet (1993) saw her develop a public image as a sex symbol as she began to explore sexuality in her music.
section_header: Artistry | Music and voice
text: "On Janet, Jackson began focusing on sexual themes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: When Chance wasn't playing baseball, he competed in amateur fights.
Wikipedia page: Frank Chance (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal
text: James J. Corbett and John L. Sullivan, among the best fighters of the era, both considered Chance "the greatest amateur brawler of all time.
section_header: Personal
text: During the baseball offseasons, Chance worked as a prizefighter.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: LG Electronics is headquartered in China.
Wikipedia page: LG Electronics (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: LG Electronics Inc. (Korean: LG 전자; RR: LG Jeonja) is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: At the end of the last Opium War, the drug was legal, and international merchants and religious promoters were free to enter China.
Wikipedia page: Opium Wars (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Second Opium War
text: The war resulted in the Treaty of Tientsin (26 June 1858), which forced the Chinese to pay reparations for the expenses of the recent war, open a second group of ten ports to European commerce, legalize the opium trade, and grant foreign traders and missionaries rights to travel within China.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Julius Caesar's first name is actually Gaius.
Wikipedia page: Julius Caesar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and career
text: Gaius Julius Caesar was born into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Julus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Manuel de Fella was born of Valencian and Catalan people.
Wikipedia page: Manuel de Falla (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography
text: He was the son of José María Falla, a Valencian, and María Jesús Matheu, from Catalonia (Hess 2001a).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Devil and Daniel Webster is about giving oneself to Satan for wealth and notoriety.
Wikipedia page: The Devil and Daniel Webster (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: In popular culture
text: In the program, Daniel Mouse is a musician whose partner, Jan, sells her soul to the devil in exchange for fame.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mildred Pierce is a book and was made into a movie.
Wikipedia page: Mildred Pierce (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name in 1945, starring Joan Crawford, and a 2011 Emmy Award–winning miniseries of the same name, starring Kate Winslet.
section_header: Summary
text: Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel dates back to 15th century.
Wikipedia page: Journey to the West (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: ; pinyin: Xī Yóu Jì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Whiskey Rebellion was imminently comparable to the Boston Tea Party and the Revolution as a whole.
Wikipedia page: Whiskey Rebellion (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of Congressional taxation powers.
section_header: Legacy | In popular culture
text: This results in the rebellion becoming a Second American Revolution.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: American actress Bette Davis left the U.S. over contract disputes.
Wikipedia page: Bette Davis (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Life and career | 1930–1936: Early years in Hollywood | Legal case
text: Knowing that she was breaching her contract with Warner Bros., she fled to Canada to avoid legal papers being served on her.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Lopez was referred to as "El Senor".
Wikipedia page: Al López (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Due to his Spanish ancestry and "gentlemanly" nature, he was nicknamed "El Señor".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Schumann was an Austrian composer.
Wikipedia page: Robert Schumann (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Robert Schumann (German: [ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Rocky's real first name in the movie Rocky, is "Robert".
Wikipedia page: Rocky (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Cast | Main cast
text: Sylvester Stallone as Robert "Rocky" Balboa Talia Shire as Adrianna "Adrian" Pennino Burt Young as Paulie Pennino Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ozzie Smith's real first name is Oscar.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Dubai's visitors do not have to follow their policy on attire.
Wikipedia page: Dubai (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Culture | Dress code
text: The above dress code is never compulsory and many people wear western or other eastern clothing without any problems; but prohibitions on wearing "indecent clothing" or revealing too much skin are aspects of the UAE to which Dubai's visitors are expected to conform, and are encoded in Dubai's criminal law.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Tim Raines had six brothers and sisters.
Wikipedia page: Tim Raines (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Raines was one of seven children.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Marilyn Monroe kicked her own bucket, as it were.
Wikipedia page: Marilyn Monroe (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Death
text: The possibility that Monroe had accidentally overdosed was ruled out because the dosages found in her body were several times over the lethal limit.
section_header: Death
text: Monroe died between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on August 4, and the toxicology report showed that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ted Simmons would not play for the money offered to him when he played baseball for the Modesto Reds when they selected Ted 10th among major league players.
Wikipedia page: Ted Simmons (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: Simmons refused to sign a contract for the amount of salary offered by the Cardinals in 1972, electing to play without a contract.
section_header: Summary
text: A switch-hitter, Simmons was a catcher for most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the St. Louis Cardinals (1968–80), the Milwaukee Brewers (1981–85) and the Atlanta Braves (1986–88).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk started the participation of Russian in the World War I.
Wikipedia page: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film was lauded as one of the greatest comedy movies ever made.
Wikipedia page: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Critical response
text: Who Framed Roger Rabbit received near-universal acclaim from critics, making Business Insider's "best comedy movies of all time, according to critics" list.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Christy Mathewson lived in Munster, Indiana and played for the Reds.
Wikipedia page: Christy Mathewson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Mathewson was born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania and attended high school at Keystone Academy.
section_header: Professional career | Three years with the Reds
text: On July 20, 1916, Mathewson's career came full circle when he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds along with Edd Roush.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This Italian explorer believed that the whole American continent was a barren place unfit for living.
Wikipedia page: Amerigo Vespucci (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: Because our ancestors had no knowledge of them, and it will be a matter wholly new to all those who hear about them, for this transcends the view held by our ancients, inasmuch as most of them hold that there is no continent to the south beyond the equator, but only the sea which they named the Atlantic and if some of them did aver that a continent there was, they denied with abundant argument that it was a habitable land.
section_header: Legacy
text: But that this their opinion is false and utterly opposed to the truth... my last voyage has made manifest; for in those southern parts I have found a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe Asia or Africa, and, in addition, a climate milder and more delightful than in any other region known to us, as you shall learn in the following account.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar help the country find financially stability.
Wikipedia page: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Politics and Estado Novo | Economic policies
text: After the politically unstable and financially chaotic years of the Portuguese First Republic, financial stability was Salazar's highest priority.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tony Perez got his Visa and flight paid for by the Cincinnati MLB team that gave him a playing contract.
Wikipedia page: Tony Pérez (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His "bonus" for signing with the Reds was the $2.50 cost of a visa and a plane ticket to Miami, Florida.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An American right fielder in Major League Baseball Nicknamed "Wee Willie", Keeler had a small stature and introduced the hit and run baseball tactic, using it in his final game.
Wikipedia page: Willie Keeler (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Professional baseball career
text: Keeler had a hit in his final game of the 1896 season, giving him a National League-record 45-game hitting streak.
section_header: Professional baseball career
text: Bill James speculated that Keeler introduced the hit and run strategy to the original Orioles and teammate John McGraw.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Nicole Kidman parted with her husband because he wasn't going to teach their offspring about lord Xenu and his thetans.
Wikipedia page: Nicole Kidman (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Religious and political views
text: During her divorce from Tom Cruise, she stated that she did not want their children raised as Scientologists.
section_header: Personal life | Religious and political views
text: She has been reluctant to discuss Scientology since her divorce.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Antilia is home to a billionaire named Ambani.
Wikipedia page: Antilia (building) (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Construction | Controversies
text: In 2002, the trust took permission from the charity commissioner to sell this land.
section_header: Summary
text: It is the residence of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his family, who moved into it in 2012; at 27-storeys, 173 metres (567.585 feet) tall, over 400,000 square feet (37,161 square meters), and with amenities such as three helipads, a 168-car garage, a ballroom, 80-seat theater, terrace gardens, spa, and a temple, the skyscraper-mansion is one of world's largest and most elaborate private homes.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Bosworth Field is now home to memorials honoring fallen soldiers in the very spot they were killed.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Bosworth Field (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy and historical significance
text: According to historian Michael Hicks, the Battle of Bosworth is one of the worst-recorded clashes of the Wars of the Roses.
section_header: Summary
text: The exact site of the battle is disputed because of the lack of conclusive data, and memorials have been erected at different locations.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1980 novel The Name of the Rose is a dark romantic comedy.
Wikipedia page: The Name of the Rose (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Aaron Burr grew up with his parents.
Wikipedia page: Aaron Burr (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Edwards died in March 1758 and Burr's mother, and grandmother also died within the year, leaving Burr and his sister orphans when he was two years old.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Orion can only be seen in the north half of the globe.
Wikipedia page: Orion (constellation) (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The government only controls forty percent of America's lands.
Wikipedia page: America (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Geography, climate, and environment | Wildlife and conservation
text: Altogether, the government owns about 28% of the country's land area, mostly in the western states.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film Bugsy is about a mobster who kills his lover.
Wikipedia page: Bugsy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Though he is Harry's trusted friend, Bugsy has no choice but to kill him.
section_header: Plot
text: Virginia is told the news in Las Vegas and knows her own days could be numbered.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Ribosomes are macromolecular machines, found within all living cells, that perform biological protein synthesis (mRNA translation) and are also known as transplants enchants.
Wikipedia page: Ribosome (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The ribosomes and associated molecules are also known as the translational apparatus.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Death in Venice is a story about a man and his obsession with a boy.
Wikipedia page: Death in Venice (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth.
section_header: Summary
text: Tadzio, the boy in the story, is the nickname for the Polish name Tadeusz and based on a boy Mann had seen during his visit to Venice in 1911.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Bill McKechnie once ran around the official square dirt path over one hundred times in a single season of paid sports playing.
Wikipedia page: Bill McKechnie (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Playing career
text: His best offensive season came in 1914 with the Hoosiers, when he scored 107 runs, batted .304 and stole 47 bases.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Most of the people living in Philadelphia are black.
Wikipedia page: Philadelphia (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Demographics
text: In 2017, the Census Bureau estimated that the racial composition of the city was 41.3% Black (non-Hispanic), 34.9% White (non-Hispanic), 14.1% Hispanic or Latino, 7.1% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.05% Pacific Islander, and 2.8% multiracial.
section_header: Demographics
text: * * 2017 figures are estimates The 2010 Census redistricting data indicated that the racial makeup of the city was 644,287 (42.2%) Black (non-Hispanic), 562,585 (36.9%) White (non-Hispanic), 96,405 (6.3%) Asian (2.0%
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Sony is an innovative company, introducing new products to the competitive market.
Wikipedia page: Sony (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Formats and technologies
text: Sony has historically been notable for creating its own in-house standards for new recording and storage technologies, instead of adopting those of other manufacturers and standards bodies.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel Anne of Green Gables was written for adults because of the telling of a sad childhood, yet children are drawn to the story.
Wikipedia page: Anne of Green Gables (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery).
section_header: Summary
text: Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, who had originally intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Martin Van Buren was the first president of the United States to not have been alive while the 13 colonies was fighting for independence from the British.
Wikipedia page: Martin Van Buren (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Van Buren was born into a family of Dutch Americans in Kinderhook, New York; he was the first President to have been born after the American Revolution — in which his father served as a Patriot — and is the only President to speak English as a second language.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Frederic March changed his plans for his career after he had surgery for a problem appendix.
Wikipedia page: Fredric March (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: He began a career as a banker, but an emergency appendectomy caused him to re-evaluate his life, and in 1920, he began working as an "extra" in movies made in New York City, using a shortened form of his mother's maiden name.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Webber is still battling with cancer.
Wikipedia page: Andrew Lloyd-Webber (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: In January 2010, he declared he was cancer-free.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Manush became a minor league manager after retiring as a player.
Wikipedia page: Heinie Manush (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After retiring as a player, Manush was a minor league manager from 1940 to 1945, a scout for the Boston Braves in the late 1940s and a coach for the Senators from 1953 to 1954.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Benjamin Harrison is the 22nd president of the United States.
Wikipedia page: Benjamin Harrison (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
Verdict: REFUTES