tasksource/fool-me-twice huggingface dataset:
Claim: Ruth Benedict was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to New York City when she was five.
Wikipedia page: Ruth Benedict (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Childhood
text: Benedict was born Ruth Fulton in New York City on June 5, 1887, to Beatrice (Shattuck) and Frederick Fulton.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The president of the United States Ronald Reagan responded quickly to an epidemic saving countless lives.
Wikipedia page: Ronald Reagan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Presidency (1981–1989) | Second term | Response to AIDS epidemic
text: By 1989, the year Reagan left office, more than 100,000 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and more than 59,000 of them had died of it.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Winston Churchill has been to a variety of places like Cuba.
Wikipedia page: Winston Churchill (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Cuba, India, and Sudan: 1895–1899
text: In the autumn of 1895, he and Reginald Barnes went to Cuba to observe its war of independence and became involved in skirmishes after joining Spanish troops attempting to suppress independence fighters.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The word nirvana can be found in many texts and in many works.
Wikipedia page: Nirvana (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Origins
text: Nirvāṇa is a term found in the texts of all major Indian religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Genghis Khan showed mercy to the citizens of Samarkand.
Wikipedia page: Genghis Khan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Military campaigns | Khwarazmian Empire
text: After the fortress fell, Genghis supposedly reneged on his surrender terms and executed every soldier that had taken arms against him at Samarkand.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Hawking went to college at Harvard and received his doctorates from Yale.
Wikipedia page: Stephen Hawking (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life | Undergraduate years
text: Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Carl Nielsen grew up in a rich family of fourteen children.
Wikipedia page: Carl Nielsen (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Early years
text: Nielsen was born on 9 June 1865, the seventh of twelve children in a poor peasant family, at Sortelung near Nørre Lyndelse, south of Odense on the island of Funen.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Joe Tinker had a brother who passed away.
Wikipedia page: Joe Tinker (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: His twin sister died at a young age.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: One fifth of all male passengers on the Titanic survived.
Wikipedia page: Titanic (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Aftermath of sinking | Survivors and victims
text: In total, 50% of the children survived, 20% of the men and 75% of the women.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Napoleon passed away on the island that he was banished to by the Brits.
Wikipedia page: Napoleon (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died six years later at the age of 51.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Robinson was birthed and raised in California.
Wikipedia page: Frank Robinson (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Robinson was born on August 31, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Dehli metro has been criticised for it's poor environmental practices.
Wikipedia page: Delhi Metro (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: DMRC was certified by the United Nations in 2011 as the first metro rail and rail-based system in the world to get carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing carbon emission levels in the city by 630,000 tonnes every year.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Before becoming president, he served in other high ranking positions.
Wikipedia page: Martin Van Buren (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Jackson administration | Secretary of State
text: In February 1829, Jackson wrote to Van Buren to ask him to become Secretary of State.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The novel, The Last Tycoon, was an unfinished book was sent to be published and republished by a critic and a scholar respectively.
Wikipedia page: The Last Tycoon (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Publication history
text: In 1993, another version of the novel was published under the title The Love of the Last Tycoon, as part of the Cambridge edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, a Fitzgerald scholar.
section_header: Publication history
text: The literary critic and writer Edmund Wilson, a close friend of Fitzgerald, collected the notes for the novel and edited it for publication.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Brazil won the 1954 World Cup by defeating Chile and Germany.
Wikipedia page: Brazil national football team (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: History | The 1950 Maracanazo
text: Brazil reached the quarter-final, where they were beaten 4–2 by tournament favourites Hungary in one of the ugliest matches in football history, known as the Battle of Berne.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Carl Hubbell did play for the New York Yankees.
Wikipedia page: Carl Hubbell (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Viruses can't attack bacteria. That's crazy. They're so small. How would that even work?
Wikipedia page: Virus (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Infection in other species | Bacterial viruses
text: Bacteriophages are a common and diverse group of viruses and are the most abundant biological entity in aquatic environments—there are up to ten times more of these viruses in the oceans than there are bacteria, reaching levels of 250,000,000 bacteriophages per millilitre of seawater.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Donna Summer was an American singer, songwriter and actress and in December 2016, Billboard ranked her at No. 6 on its list of the Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists.
Wikipedia page: Donna Summer (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Yogi was a sailor.
Wikipedia page: Yogi Berra (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Professional baseball career | Minor leagues | World War II and subsequent return to Minor League
text: During World War II, Berra served in the United States Navy as a gunner's mate on the attack transport USS Bayfield during the Normandy landings.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The story hasn't been made into a movie.
Wikipedia page: The Sea Wolf (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Film adaptations
text: Jack London's novel has been adapted for motion pictures: The Sea Wolf (1913), a silent motion picture starring Hobart Bosworth, with author Jack London appearing as an unnamed sailor
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the film Jojo Rabbit, Jojo attempts to stop Elsa's arm from bleeding.
Wikipedia page: Jojo Rabbit (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: He returns home and tries to stab Elsa, but breaks down in tears.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Godfather Part II original budget did end up being less expensive than what was planned.
Wikipedia page: The Godfather Part II (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Development
text: The film's original budget was $6 million but costs increased to over $11 million, with Variety's review claiming it was over $15 million.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: "Family Guy" has been created in different kinds of medias like animated television.
Wikipedia page: Family Guy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company that debuted on January 31, 1999.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ray is a 2004 American biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles that went on to become a box-office hit,  earning $125 million worldwide.
Wikipedia page: Ray (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Box office
text: The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning $75 million in the U.S. with an additional $50 million internationally, bringing its worldwide gross to $125 million.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Angelina Jolie's first appearance in the film industry was with her father.
Wikipedia page: Angelina Jolie (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), and her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tim Keefe's successful career was showcased as he became one of the prevailing baseball pitchers recognized by his place in the Hall of Fame after his death.
Wikipedia page: Tim Keefe (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He was one of the most dominating pitchers of the 19th century and posted impressive statistics in one category or another for almost every season he pitched.
section_header: Later life and legacy
text: Keefe was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964 after being elected by the Veterans Committee.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jodie Foster has German roots through her mother.
Wikipedia page: Jodie Foster (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life and education
text: Brandy was of German heritage and grew up in Rockford, Illinois.
section_header: Early life and education
text: Alicia Christian Foster was born on November 19, 1962, in Los Angeles, California, the youngest child of Evelyn Ella ("Brandy"; née Almond) and Lucius Fisher Foster III.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1927 novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey about people who die in Peru won the Pulitzer Prize.
Wikipedia page: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim.
section_header: Summary
text: It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Pope Gregory VII was pope for 12 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 (
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Emmy Noether became well known for her work as a math wizard.
Wikipedia page: Emmy Noether (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Work in abstract algebra
text: In his 1935 memorial address, Alexandrov named Emmy Noether "the greatest woman mathematician of all time".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Def Leppard was given its name by Joe Elliott.
Wikipedia page: Def Leppard (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Early years (1977–1979)
text: Elliott proposed the name "Deaf Leopard" which was originally a band name he thought of while designing band posters in art class.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Essay on Criticism has several quotes including themes of love and happiness.
Wikipedia page: Essay on Criticism (NOCAT)
Evidence:
section_header: Critical reception
text: The Essay also gives this famous line (towards the end of Part II): The phrase "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" from Part III (line 625) has become part of the popular lexicon, and has been used for and in various works.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"  was the most famous story by the author.
Wikipedia page: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942).
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The book, Paradise Lost, is known for it's famous phrase that starts with, "Better to reign in hell..." and has characters like Satan and Eve.
Wikipedia page: Paradise Lost (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Characters | Satan
text: He was once the most beautiful of all angels, and is a tragic figure who famously declares: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
section_header: Structure
text: In Book 9, a verse describing the serpent which tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden spells out "SATAN" (9.510), while elsewhere in the same book, Milton spells out "FFAALL" and "FALL".
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Julie Christie's father was elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia page: Julie Christie (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: She has a younger brother, Clive, and an older (now deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Palace of Versailles was the secondary resident of the King of France during the French Revolution and the second most visited historical site in the Île-de-France region.
Wikipedia page: Palace of Versailles (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Palace of Versailles ( vair-SY, vur-SY; French: The Palace of Versailles ( vair-SY, vur-SY; French: Château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] (listen)) was the principal royal residence of France from 1682, under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789, under Louis XVI.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1965 film Doctor Zhivago is set in the Ukraine.
Wikipedia page: Doctor Zhivago (film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Khan had 4 official marriages and multiple other women on the side.
Wikipedia page: Kublai Khan (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Wives, concubines, and children
text: In the 13th century, Marco Polo recorded that Kublai had four wives and a great number of concubines.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Salamis was a victory for a group of Greeks and was fought on water.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Salamis (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of Salamis ( SAL-ə-miss; Ancient Greek: Ναυμαχία τῆς Σαλαμῖνος, romanized: Naumachía tês Salamînos) was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC.
section_header: Summary
text: It resulted in a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greeks.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The prison blocks in Alcatraz were named after famous cities in the United States.
Wikipedia page: Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Prison life and the cells | Corridors
text: Alcatraz cellhouse had a corridor naming system named after major American streets and landmarks.
section_header: Summary
text: Prison corridors were named after major U.S. streets such as Broadway and Michigan Avenue.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charlie Gehringer was part of the Major League All Star tour of Japan after the 1935 season alongside, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx.
Wikipedia page: Charlie Gehringer (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: 1934 tour of Japan
text: After the 1934 season, Gehringer was part of the Major League All Star tour of Japan.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Laurence Olivier played in sixty roles in the movies.
Wikipedia page: Laurence Olivier (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Virgil has his epic poem the Aeneid start with Aeneas trying to decide if he should leave Greece.
Wikipedia page: Aeneid (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Story | Journey to Italy (books 1–6) | Book 1: Storm and refuge
text: Also in the manner of Homer, the story proper begins in medias res (into the middle of things), with the Trojan fleet in the eastern Mediterranean, heading in the direction of Italy.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the 2010s, it was announced to be the number one best stock in 2010 with a return of 3,693%.
Wikipedia page: Netflix (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Finance
text: Netflix was announced to be the number one best stock in the 2010s, with a total return of 3,693%.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Harridge's most important role was as a secretary to Ban Johnson.
Wikipedia page: Will Harridge (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: William Harridge (October 16, 1883 – April 9, 1971) was an American executive in professional baseball whose most significant role was as president of the American League (AL) from 1931 to 1959.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: During the Boer Wars, South Africa did not produce any weapons.
Wikipedia page: Boer Wars (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Production of military equipment by South Africa
text: South Africa has produced a variety of significant weapons, vehicles and planes for its own uses as well as for international export.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: American statesman John C. Calhoun was against slavery.
Wikipedia page: John C. Calhoun (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The antiquated people of Rome and Greece used the word "quartz" to describe a warm, moving form of hard water.
Wikipedia page: Quartz (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Etymology
text: The word "quartz" is derived from the German word "Quarz", which had the same form in the first half of the 14th century in Middle High German in East Central German and which came from the Polish dialect term kwardy, which corresponds to the Czech term tvrdý ("hard").The Ancient Greeks referred to quartz as κρύσταλλος (krustallos) derived from the Ancient Greek κρύος (kruos) meaning "icy cold", because some philosophers (including Theophrastus) apparently believed the mineral to be a form of supercooled ice.
section_header: History
text: Roman naturalist Pliny Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder believed quartz to be water ice, permanently frozen after great lengths of time. (The word "crystal" comes from the Greek word κρύσταλλος, "ice".) He supported this idea by saying that quartz is found near glaciers in the Alps, but not on volcanic mountains, and that large quartz crystals were fashioned into spheres to cool the hands.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Look Back in Anger is a play with a nihilistic 'realist' message that essentially highlights the futility of life and marriage to the very end.
Wikipedia page: Look Back in Anger (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis | Act 3
text: The play ends with a sentimental reconciliation between Jimmy and Alison.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the 2019 Spider-Man: Far From, Peter Parker is contacted by Nick fury but he ignores him until he meets up with him in Venice.
Wikipedia page: Spider-Man: Far From Home (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Fury meets with Parker and gives him Stark's glasses, which were meant for his successor.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Jocko Conlan was an American baseball umpire who worked in Major League Baseball from 1941 to 1965 was as an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox before entering umpiring.
Wikipedia page: Jocko Conlan (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: John Bertrand "Jocko" Conlan (December 6, 1899 – April 16, 1989) was an American baseball umpire who worked in the National League (NL) from 1941 to 1965.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Keaton has played a variety of roles in order to keep her from being type cast based on a single role.
Wikipedia page: Diane Keaton (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: To avoid being typecast as her Annie Hall persona, Keaton became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Interiors (1978), and received three more Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give (2003).
section_header: Career | 1990s
text: Of her role choices and avoidance of becoming typecast, she said: "Most often a particular role does you some good and Bang!
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Elizabeth Taylor died of complications due to her long battle with scoliosis and a broken back she sustained early in her career without realizing it..
Wikipedia page: Elizabeth Taylor (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure in 2011, at the age of 79.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Carter's mom was a health worker.
Wikipedia page: Jimmy Carter (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, at the Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center) in Plains, Georgia, a hospital where his mother was employed as a registered nurse.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Carlton Fisk was a professional soccer player who played for Chelsea in 1969 to 1993 and was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Wikipedia page: Carlton Fisk (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Carlton Ernest Fisk (born December 26, 1947), nicknamed "Pudge" and "The Commander", is an American former professional baseball player.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Glengarry Glen Ross is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, and was nominated for five Tony awards.
Wikipedia page: Glengarry Glen Ross (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It  was nominated for four Tony awards including Best Play, Best Director, and two Best Featured Actor nominations for Robert Prosky and Joe Mantegna, who won the production's one Tony.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Taiping Rebellion began in a North province.
Wikipedia page: Taiping Rebellion (History)
Evidence:
section_header: History | Early years
text: The Taiping Rebellion began in the southern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of religious persecution against the God Worshipping Society.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: This novel was inspired in part by the life of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Wikipedia page: The Satanic Verses (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Spaghetti Incident album  contained all original songs.
Wikipedia page: Guns N' Roses (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: History | International success and band turmoil (1990–1993) | "The Spaghetti Incident?"
text: Their fifth studio album, "The Spaghetti Incident?", a collection of punk and glam rock covers, was released on November 23, 1993.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Bard was known for his nearly 40 plays he had written and had performed.
Wikipedia page: William Shakespeare (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: A platoon's formation is determined by the country of origin.
Wikipedia page: Platoon (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Platoon organization varies depending on the country and the branch, but are generally around 50 strong, although specific platoons may range from 9 to 100 men.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Beggar's Opera has a character who is the Beggar.
Wikipedia page: The Beggar's Opera (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Synopsis
text: The narrator (the Beggar), notes that although in a properly moral ending Macheath and the other villains would be hanged, the audience demands a happy ending, and so Macheath is reprieved, and all are invited to a dance of celebration, to celebrate his wedding to Polly.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Coward passed away in Jamaica.
Wikipedia page: Noël Coward (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Biography | Death and honours
text: Coward died at his home, Firefly Estate, in Jamaica on 26 March 1973 of heart failure and was buried three days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, overlooking the north coast of the island.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: As manager, Selee shuffled three Chicago Cubs players around until he came up with a winning combination.
Wikipedia page: Frank Selee (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Career
text: With the Cubs, he created the famous Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield combination, by converting Frank Chance from catcher to first base, Joe Tinker from third base to shortstop, and Johnny Evers from shortstop to second base.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The 1728 opera by John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, has a sequel by the same author where Polly dresses as a boy.
Wikipedia page: The Beggar's Opera (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: It has been descibed as the most popular literary work in West Asia.
Wikipedia page: Journey to the West (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE, and according to Vicarasreni of Merutunga, Mauryans rose to power in 300 BC.
Wikipedia page: Maurya Empire (History)
Evidence:
section_header: In literature
text: According to Vicarasreni of Merutunga, Mauryans rose to power in 312 BC.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire deaths were mostly young men
Wikipedia page: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Newegg's headquarters is in Connecticut.
Wikipedia page: Newegg (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It is based in City of Industry, California.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Michael Clayton movie won one Oscar.
Wikipedia page: Michael Clayton (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Best Supporting Actor for Wilkinson, and Best Supporting Actress for Swinton, which she won.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Although Ozzie Smith was a great player, he was never able to win the Gold Glove Award which was a goal of his.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Smith won his first Gold Glove Award in 1980 and made his first All-Star Game appearance in 1981.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Torre's older brother, Frank, was a professional boxer.
Wikipedia page: Joe Torre (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: His older brother Frank Torre was also a Major League Baseball player.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Views about The Second Coming of Jesus is can be found across many religions stating the same message.
Wikipedia page: The Second Coming (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Christian eschatological views | Protestant
text: The many denominations of Protestantism have differing views on the exact details of Christ's second coming.
section_header: Specific date predictions and claims
text: Views about the nature of the Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Salem witch trials was where 200 people died after being accused of being witches.
Wikipedia page: Salem witch trials (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Spartacus life was not well documented.
Wikipedia page: Spartacus (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Millard Fillmore is the spouse of the unknown president, and she wore wigs in the White House.
Wikipedia page: Millard Fillmore (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Congressman | Second through fourth terms
text: With the Whigs able to organize the House for the first time, Fillmore sought the Speakership, but it went to a Clay acolyte, John White of Kentucky.
section_header: Legacy and historical view
text: Millard Fillmore, with his wife Abigail, established the first White House library.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Franz Liszt learned from the pioneers of the technique of piano that's now called "Flying Trapeze".
Wikipedia page: Franz Liszt (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Paganini
text: While it has since been referred to as the "flying trapeze" school of piano playing, this generation also solved some of the most intractable problems of piano technique, raising the general level of performance to previously unimagined heights.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The New York Stock Exchange trading floor has 15 rooms.
Wikipedia page: New York Stock Exchange (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The 1992 film Crying Game  is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles but was primarily shot in England.
Wikipedia page: The Crying Game (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production
text: The opening sequence was shot in Laytown, County Meath, Ireland, and the rest in London and Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An artistic mural is displayed in the state where Dylan was born and went to college.
Wikipedia page: Bob Dylan (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy | Archives and tributes
text: "In 2015, a massive Bob Dylan mural was unveiled in downtown Minneapolis, the city where Dylan attended university for a year.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ozzie Smith's mom gave birth to him in a birthing center  in Oakland, California.
Wikipedia page: Ozzie Smith (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Early life
text: Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, the second of Clovi and Marvella Smith's six children (five boys and one girl).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: John Dwight Chesbro won 41 games in the 1904 MLB season making him the only pitcher to win more that 40 games in a single season.
Wikipedia page: Jack Chesbro (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Legacy
text: The only other 40-win season since 1900 was 40 by Ed Walsh in 1908, and only three other pitchers in the modern era have won as many as 35--Christy Mathewson (37 in 1908), Walter Johnson (36 in 1913) and Joe McGinnity (35 in 1904).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the 1991 film Bugsy, the gangster dies violently at his residence partly due to his wife's money indiscretions.
Wikipedia page: Bugsy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: Later that night, Bugsy is shot and killed in his home.
section_header: Plot
text: , whereupon Bugsy discovers that Virginia stole the money.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Jolson Story was awarded with one Oscar and two Golden Globes.
Wikipedia page: The Jolson Story (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Awards and honors
text: The film was a tremendous financial success, and won Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and Best Sound Recording (John Livadary).
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Béla Bartók was a French violinist that was able to play at the age of five.
Wikipedia page: Béla Bartók (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: Bartók Béla, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist.
section_header: Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)
text: By the age of four he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Celtic FC has one the Euro Cup just once.
Wikipedia page: Celtic F.C. (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The movie is influenced by locations from northern Europe.
Wikipedia page: Frozen (2013 film) (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Scandinavian and Sámi inspiration
text: The setting was principally based on Norway, and the cultural influences in the film come from Scandinavian culture.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Brideshead Revisited is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1955, in which the novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's coterie at Oxford University.
Wikipedia page: Brideshead Revisited (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Two and a Half Men was initially shown on CBS.
Wikipedia page: Two and a Half Men (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Göbekli Tepe, which includes an artificial mound in Turkey, dates back to the 10th - 8th millenium BCE.
Wikipedia page: Göbekli Tepe (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The tell includes two phases of use, believed to be of a social or ritual nature by site discoverer and excavator Klaus Schmidt, dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BCE.
section_header: Summary
text: The tell (artificial mound) has a height of 15 m (50 ft) and is about 300 m (1,000 ft) in diameter.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Weak interaction can be either "charged-current interaction" or neutral-current interaction."
Wikipedia page: Weak interaction (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Interaction types
text: The first type is called the "charged-current interaction" because it is mediated by particles that carry an electric charge (the W+ or W− bosons).
section_header: Interaction types
text: The second type is called the "neutral-current interaction" because it is mediated by a neutral particle, the Z0 boson.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Tammany Hall was a political organization that lasted close to 2 centuries.
Wikipedia page: Tammany Hall (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Adam Bede is frequently utilized for college learning of English writing.
Wikipedia page: Adam Bede (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Marie Curie was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Wikipedia page: Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Battle of Austerlitz was also called by another name and was a victory achieved by Napoleon after war was announced.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Austerlitz (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Prologue
text: In May 1803, Britain declared war on France.
section_header: Summary
text: Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Claudio Monteverdi was a musician and has a different surname.
Wikipedia page: Claudio Monteverdi (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Cremona 1567–1591
text: The register records his name as "Claudio Zuan Antonio" the son of "Messer Baldasar Mondeverdo".
section_header: Summary
text: Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈklaudjo monteˈverdi] (listen); baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: William Howard Taft was the 26th president and a Chief Justice.
Wikipedia page: William Howard Taft (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was produced by Harrison Ford.
Wikipedia page: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Snake Pit was edited to make the conditions in the hospital easier for the audience to watch.
Wikipedia page: The Snake Pit (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Censorship
text: Due to public concerns that the extras in the film were in fact real mental patients being exploited, the British censor added a foreword explaining that everyone who appeared on screen was a paid actor and that conditions in British hospitals were unlike those portrayed in the film and cut 1,000 feet of the film deleting all sequences involving patients in straitjackets and lighter scenes evoking laughter.
section_header: Plot
text: Nurse Davis goads Virginia into an outburst which results in Virginia being straitjacketed and expelled from Level One into the "snake pit," where patients considered beyond help are simply placed together in a large padded cell and abandoned.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Battle of Shiloh was also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Wikipedia page: Battle of Shiloh (History)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: An American in Paris is a movie.
Wikipedia page: An American in Paris (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Baidu is a Chinese company that tries not to contend with some of the largest search engines today.
Wikipedia page: Baidu (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Competition
text: Baidu competes with Google Search, 360 Search (www.so.com), Sogou Search (www.sogou.com), Yahoo! China, Microsoft's Bing and MSN Messenger, Sina, NetEase's Youdao, Tencent's Soso.com and PaiPai, Alibaba's Taobao, TOM Online, and EachNet.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The film Gosford Park depicts British aristocrats after the Battle of Britain.
Wikipedia page: Gosford Park (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Plot
text: In November 1932, wealthy English industrialist Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a weekend shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Adenosine triphosphate aids in the absorption of nutrients in the small intestine.
Wikipedia page: Adenosine triphosphate (Science)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, e.g. muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, condensate dissolution, and chemical synthesis.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Before "True Blood" began production, HBO and PepsiCo partnered to create a drink based on the one the vampires drink on the show.
Wikipedia page: True Blood (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production | Marketing
text: In the same month, HBO.com began selling Tru:Blood, a beverage branded to resemble the fictional synthetic blood that appears in the show.
section_header: Production | Marketing
text: The beverage is a carbonated blood orange-flavored drink, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in defictionalizing brands from television and movies, and FMCG Manufacturing Company, a specialist manufacturer of licensed entertainment products.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: In the film the main character means to go to D.C. but goes to Washington State by accident.
Wikipedia page: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story "The Gentleman from Montana".
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Lloyd Waner expired by cancer.
Wikipedia page: Lloyd Waner (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Later life
text: " In 1982, Waner died of complications related to emphysema.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns let his wife know their marriage was over by composing a dirge in its honor.
Wikipedia page: Camille Saint-Saëns (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | 1880s: International figure
text: On 28 July he disappeared from their hotel, and a few days later his wife received a letter from him to say that he would not be returning.
section_header: Life | 1880s: International figure
text: They never saw each other again.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, the 48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
Wikipedia page: Empire State Building (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: As of 2020, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Beckley played for three teams from the same city.
Wikipedia page: Jake Beckley (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals from 1888 to 1907.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Panasonic is a major Chinese electronics business.
Wikipedia page: Panasonic (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha), founded in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer, is a major Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Clemente played with only 1 professional team during his MLB career.
Wikipedia page: Roberto Clemente (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (g)walˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Mercury left his London home to Hutton when he died.
Wikipedia page: Freddie Mercury (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life | Relationships
text: He was cremated with it on. In his will, Mercury left his London home to Austin, rather than to Hutton, having told her, "You would have been my wife, and it would have been yours anyway.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Salesforce.com has its headquarters in the Silicon Valley.
Wikipedia page: Salesforce.com (Technology)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Salesforce.com, inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: The Courtship of Miles Standish is about two women who both want for the attention of the same man, mister Miles Standish.
Wikipedia page: The Courtship of Miles Standish (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Overview
text: The Courtship of Miles Standish is set in the year 1621 against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war and focuses on a love triangle among three Mayflower passengers: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullins, and John Alden.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The play A Doll's House was sold out.
Wikipedia page: A Doll's House (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Production history
text: Writing for the Norwegian newspaper Folkets Avis, the critic Erik Bøgh admired Ibsen's originality and technical mastery: "Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear." Every performance of its run was sold out.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: Ozymandias was a nickname for Tutankhamun.
Wikipedia page: Ozymandias (Literature)
Evidence:
section_header: Origin
text: In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας) was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Buxtehude's church compositions are appreciated for their intense difficult melodies.
Wikipedia page: Dietrich Buxtehude (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Life | Influence and legacy
text: His surviving church music is praised for its high musical qualities rather than its progressive elements.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Craig Biggio has been the baseball coach of a high school.
Wikipedia page: Craig Biggio (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Personal life
text: They live in Houston. For several years, Biggio was the head varsity baseball coach at St. Thomas High School.
Verdict: SUPPORTS
Claim: La La Land is a musical film that won multiple Academy awards including the award for best film.
Wikipedia page: La La Land (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Reception | Accolades | Best Picture Oscar gaffe
text: During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is actually a giant tomb that was made in 367 BC.
Wikipedia page: Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Geography)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a native Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Although Tim Raines was an American professional basketball coach and former player, he received over 100 scholarship offers to play college football coming out of Seminole High School.
Wikipedia page: Tim Raines (Sports)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: Timothy Raines Sr. (born September 16, 1959), nicknamed "Rock", is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Midnight Cowboy was filmed in New-York.
Wikipedia page: Midnight Cowboy (Popular Culture)
Evidence:
section_header: Production
text: The opening scenes were filmed in Big Spring, Texas.
Verdict: REFUTES
Claim: Demetria Devonne Lovato made appearances on Barney & Friends that would eventually propel her career into new directions.
Wikipedia page: Demi Lovato (Music)
Evidence:
section_header: Summary
text: After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she rose to prominence for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010).
section_header: Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings
text: In 2002, she began her career on the children's television series Barney & Friends, portraying the role of Angela.
Verdict: SUPPORTS