Newvel/entailment_dataset · Datasets at Hugging Face

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678	YES	CD	Coextensive with the metropolitan district of Jakarta Raya, it lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of Java.	Jakarta lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of the island of Java.
423	UNKNOWN	QA	Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.	French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.
153	YES	RC	The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci from 1503-1506, hangs in Paris' Louvre Museum.	The Mona Lisa is in France.
566	YES	QA	The headquarters of the WTO are in Geneva, but the disputes which come under its purview are settled in Paris, under ICC rules.	The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
192	UNKNOWN	RC	Oil prices edged up today as Norwegian employers said they would respond to a strike by locking out all workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output.	Workers strike in response to Norwegian employers' threats.
582	UNKNOWN	QA	"For Japanese yakuza, the most important thing is staying alive, and making money is second," the yakuza said.	Yakuza are the Japanese mafia.
732	NO	SUM	Mr Lopez Obrador, who lost July's presidential election by less than one percentage point, declared himself Mexico's "legitimate" president.	Mr Lopez Obrador didn't loose the presidential election in July.
1929	YES	IE	Teenage sensation Wayne Rooney powered England into the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 with two goals in Monday's 4-2 defeat of Croatia and they were joined in the last eight by champions France who beat Switzerland 3-1.	France participates in Euro 2004.
748	UNKNOWN	IR	After the polio cases were identified, public health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti began giving the vaccines to large numbers of children. Public health officials now say the disease is under control and is not a public health threat.	Polio is under control in the world.
615	YES	SUM	Security forces were on high alert after an election campaign in which more than 1,000 people, including seven election candidates, have been killed.	Security forces were on high alert after a campaign marred by violence.
413	NO	QA	A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.	A female rabbit is called a buck.
173	UNKNOWN	RC	However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.	Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Baquba's group.
594	YES	QA	"For the first time in history, the players are investing their own money to ensure the future of the game," Atlanta Brave pitcher Tom Glavine said.	Tom Glavine plays for the Atlanta Braves.
411	YES	QA	Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.	Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.
344	UNKNOWN	QA	There is a growing sense of urgency to deal with the country's social issues, and a large number of professional NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability.	BOVESPA is an NGO.
500	UNKNOWN	QA	To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.	"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.
553	YES	QA	Colin L. Powell and Laura Bush, wife of Gov. George W. Bush, are to speak on the opening night in Philadelphia, while the Democrats have tentative plans to have President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton address the delegates on the first night in Los Angeles.	The name of George W. Bush's wife is Laura.
595	YES	QA	Brown brushed off a threat made Monday by his counterpart, Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi, that if China's effort to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) by the year's end is unsuccessful, Beijing will no longer be bound by previous trade and economic commitments.	Wu Yi is the Foreign Trade Minister of China.
432	UNKNOWN	SUM	In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until completely blended and frothy.	In a bowl, whisk together the egg, sugar and vanilla until light in color.
58	YES	IE	On the morning of 1 June, there was a blackout throughout most of the capital caused by urban commandos of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).	FMLN caused a blackout in the capital.
612	YES	SUM	Basque separatist party Batasuna is widely regarded as the political wing of the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a linkage it denies.	Batasuna denies it is the political wing of ETA.
1179	YES	MT	Security authorities have declared a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala, which is located directly in the path of the hurricane.	There is a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala because of the hurricane.
633	YES	QA	Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.	Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
174	YES	IE	Steve Jobs was attacked by Sculley and other Apple executives for not delivering enough hot new products and resigned from the company a few weeks later.	Steve Jobs worked for Apple.
82	YES	IE	Jerry Reinsdorf (born February 25 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is the owner of Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls. Recently, he helped the White Sox win the 2005 World Series and, in the process, collected his seventh championship ring overall (the first six were all with the Bulls in the 1990s), becoming the third owner in the history of North American sports to win a championship in two different sports.	Jerry Reinsdorf has won 7 championships.
75	YES	IE	Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.	Antonio Fazio works for the Bank of Italy.
707	UNKNOWN	SUM	The owners of Phinda, the South African-based Conservation Corporation, could not have paid for a better advertisement for their philosophy of wildlife conservation: a people-based approach to conservation, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa as game reserves come under ever greater threat from hungry, poor and angry local populations.	The South African-based Conservation Corporation threatens the local population.
188	YES	IE	White supported Gough Whitlam's Labor government of 1972 to 1975, and after Whitlam was ousted in the 1975 constitutional crisis, became particularly anti-royalist.	White assisted the Labor government from 1972 to 1975.
203	YES	IR	In a sharply-worded internal World Bank report (leaked to The New York Times) the Bank has criticized its own decision to approve a controversial $40 million anti-poverty plan.	The World Bank is criticized for its policies.
202	YES	QA	We believe that, with the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, visitors from Taiwan will be encouraged to stay longer in Hong Kong, to experience the magic of our theme park and of our city.	Disneyland is in Hong Kong.
553	YES	QA	Pibul Songgram was the pro-Japanese military dictator of Thailand during World War 2.	Pibul was the dictator of Thailand.
259	UNKNOWN	IR	First Canadian and then Dutch peacekeepers were deployed in Srebrenica. Seven hundred and fifty lightly armed UN peace-keepers were responsible for disarming Srebrenica's Muslim defenders and "deterring" Bosnian Serb attacks against the safe area. Two years later, a Serb flag flew where the UN's once did and 7,079 Muslim men were missing.	Dutch photos of Srebrenica have disappeared.
46	UNKNOWN	IE	Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.	Several honorary consuls were kidnapped on 4 May 88.
367	YES	IR	There are actually good grounds to believe that legalization would reduce the costs of respiratory damage from marijuana smoking by encouraging the development of better smoke filtration technology, the substitution of more potent, less smoke-producing varieties of marijuana, and the substitution of oral preparations for smoked marijuana.	Drug legalization has benefits.
287	UNKNOWN	IR	The harvest of sea-weeds is not allowed in the Puget Sound because of marine vegetation's vital role in providing habitat to important species.	Marine vegetation is harvested.
702	UNKNOWN	IE	The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.	Justice Carlos Valencia was killed in Medellin.
323	UNKNOWN	IR	Ronaldo Luiz Nazario da Silva is quite simply one of the greatest strikers in the history of world football, capable of leaving an entire team for dead with his darting runs and dribbling ability, voted FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions and already a double FIFA World Cup winner.	FIFA selects world football player of the year 1994.
434	YES	IE	Self-sufficiency has been turned into a formal public awareness campaign in San Francisco, by Mayor Gavin Newsom.	Gavin Newsom is a politician of San Francisco.
791	UNKNOWN	IR	It is hoped that women, who constitute more than half of the population, will vote for other women and ensure that their issues are represented in parliament.	Women are poorly represented in parliament.
429	UNKNOWN	QA	Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."	Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.
301	UNKNOWN	IR	New York boasts the largest number of billionaires, with 40 residing in the Big Apple. The world's youngest billionaire is 22-year-old Hind Hariri, daughter of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.	The number of billionaires increases.
674	NO	SUM	The United Nations last night elected eight judges for the international war crimes tribunal that will try those accused of murders and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia since 1991.	11 judges in the Yugoslavia war tribunal were sworn in at the World court.
704	YES	SUM	Libya's case against Britain and the US concerns the dispute over their demand for extradition of Libyans charged with blowing up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in 1988.	One case involved the extradition of Libyan suspects in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing.
126	UNKNOWN	SUM	U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.	North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks.
1186	NO	MT	The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Office had earlier purposely asserted that the case is strictly in the jurisdiction of the police and the justice system.	The jurisdiction of the case was queried by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
112	YES	SUM	On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.	A bomb exploded outside a mosque.
398	YES	SUM	A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.	Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
382	UNKNOWN	IR	There are many motives for suicide attacks: religious beliefs, nationalistic ideologies, obedience to charismatic and authoritarian leaders, or desire for political change. The modus operandi may vary, whether to use one or several suicide bombers, whether to use men or women.	People were killed in Tamil suicide attacks.
256	UNKNOWN	IR	Ewald, now 74, headed the East German Sports Federation from 1961 to 1988. He was found guilty of making 142 East German sportswomen, mostly swimmers and athletes, take banned performance-enhancing drugs.	Several sportswomen have been accused of doping.
579	YES	QA	The anti-terrorist court found two men guilty of murdering Shapour Bakhtiar and his secretary Sorush Katibeh, who were found with their throats cut in August 1991.	Shapour Bakhtiar died in 1991.
2095	UNKNOWN	MT	Scientists had thought all gamma-ray bursts had a standard energy.	The scientists had thought that all explosions gamma the ray have a standard energy.
214	YES	IE	Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.	Oqueli was a member of the Socialist party.
325	YES	IR	Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space, a staggering 438 days, between 1994 and 1995.	Russians hold record for longest stay in space.
678	UNKNOWN	SUM	This is only the fourth time that the Security Council has imposed sanctions, the earlier cases being against Rhodesia, South Africa and, most recently, Iraq.	The Court endorsed U.N. sanctions against Libya.
648	YES	QA	Yoko Ono, widow of murdered Beatles star John Lennon, has plastered the small German town of Langenhagen with backsides.	Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife.
304	YES	IR	Nick Leeson was jailed for fraud following the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995. He had run up losses of 850m on the Far East stock markets.	Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC.
544	YES	QA	When the Berlin Wall fell in early November, 1989 Berlin's east and west sections were rejoined to create the third-largest city in Europe , with a population of about 3 million.	The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989.
457	UNKNOWN	QA	By law, Mexico can only export half the oil it produces to the United States.	Mexico produces more oil than any other country.
628	NO	SUM	Witnesses allegedly hear and see documents being shredded all night long by Jorge Alvarez Aguirre and Rosario Piazza, two ex-Opel men who had followed their leader to VW.	People leaving GM with Lopez included Jose Gutierrez, Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, and Rosario Piazza.
38	YES	IE	Côte d'Ivoire, once a haven of stability in West Africa and the world's top cocoa producer, has been split in two since a failed coup against Gbagbo in September 2002, pitting rebels from the Muslim-dominated north against the Christian-populated south.	Côte d'Ivoire is located in Africa.
1975	UNKNOWN	PP	A matching fingerprint was discovered on the strap.	A matching fingerprint was excavated from the strap.
506	YES	QA	The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as 'the Red Planet'.	Mars is called 'the red planet'.
945	YES	IE	Guerrillas killed a peasant in the city of Flores.	Guerrillas killed a civilian
21	YES	SUM	The jet was carrying 152 tourists from Martinique, returning home after a week in Panama, officials said.	The plane was returning to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, from Panama.
233	UNKNOWN	IR	Chirac needed a new mandate for his government from the electorate, or a new left government was needed that could count on the support of the trade union bureaucracy and among the working class and so would encounter less resistance.	Parliamentary elections create new government in France.
1162	UNKNOWN	MT	UNSCOM employs about 120 persons in Iraq, including 40 inspectors.	Wilson uses some 120 persons in Iraq, 40 of whom are inspectors.
493	YES	IR	IBM stole trade secrets to copy two of its programs -- File-AID, a file manager, and Abend-AID, a program that helps users locate the source of glitches.	Trade secrets were stolen.
397	YES	IR	With the publication of Sophie's World in 1991, Gaarder gained international fame. Sophie's World spent three years as the best selling book in Norway. His first book to be translated into English, Sophie's World was also the top-selling book in Germany, France, and Great Britain.	Sophie's World is a best seller.
321	NO	QA	John Paul II was the first non-Italian Pope in exactly 600 years, so other things being equal, his successor would presumably be Italian.	John Paul II is Italian.
653	YES	SUM	Argentina's campaign to re-establish itself as a trustworthy trading partner was boosted yesterday with the underwriting of a Dollars 9.5m buyer credit by Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department.	Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department underwrites loans to Argentina.
79	YES	IR	The privately owned spacecraft only got about 400 feet into space, according to radar measurements, but it was enough to confirm that it no longer takes a well-heeled government project to organize space travel.	private spaceship launches
447	UNKNOWN	QA	A condition called "social anxiety disorder" this week joined the long list of downers in life - including obesity, impotence, depression and phobia - that Americans once commonly saw as challenges of willpower and character but can now have treated by popping a pill.	Phobia is a an extreme fear of a particular thing or situation.
2132	NO	RC	Ralph Fiennes, who has played memorable villains in such films as 'Red Dragon' and 'Schindler's List,' is to portray Voldemort, the wicked warlock, in the next Harry Potter movie.	Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter in the next movie.
1244	YES	MT	The source added that the investigation proved that the bases of the genocide crime "were completed with a series of illegal arrests followed in some cases with assassinations or cases of disappearances and were preceded, according to information attached to the file, by cases of torture."	Investigators discovered that a series of illicit arrests of were often followed by disappearances or murders and were preceded by torture.
268	YES	IE	There can be no doubt that the Administration already is weary of Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest who in December, 1990, won an overwhelming victory in Haiti's only democratic presidential election	Aristide became president of Haiti in 1990.
564	UNKNOWN	QA	The Republic of Tajikistan, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, is in a region that has changed hands many times.	The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
800	YES	CD	Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr. in an attempted assassination, but made a remarkably speedy recovery.	Reagan survived an attempted assassin's bullets.
57	UNKNOWN	SUM	Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors, while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader, once again, proved favorites in the best actor category.	Patricia Arquette collected best drama actress for psychic crime drama "Medium", while James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal" for a second year.
692	UNKNOWN	SUM	A brain-dead teenager was removed from life-support equipment after giving birth to a premature daughter.	Pregnant women are allowed to die after they deliver their babies.
177	YES	IE	Tom Online revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2005 were US$42.78 mn, an increase of 38.5% over the same period in 2004.	Tom Online revenues have risen by 38.5%.
733	YES	CD	According to tradition, they founded Tenochtitlan ( "Place of the High Priest Tenoch" ) after much wandering when they saw on an island in Lake Texcoco the sign that their god Huitzilopochtli had indicated -- an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a serpent .	They saw an eagle perched on a cactus eating a serpent.
226	YES	IR	Both sides have a point. German spelling does need overhauling: over the decades, it has grown more unwieldy. But the reform, approved by German-speaking countries in 1996, does not make the rules much easier, and in some cases the new way is harder.	A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.
71	YES	QA	In support of the Earth Island Institute rebuttal, Greenpeace founder Don White made the following - unfortunately prophetic - public statement on 8/18/93.	Don White is the founder of Greenpeace.
569	UNKNOWN	IR	About 3 million years ago, when Lucy was alive, she was rather short, about 4 feet tall, and probably weighed about 50 pounds.	Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
589	YES	QA	That prompted Clinton, wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea to spend a cold and dreary Saturday in Minsk.	Clinton's wife is called Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2101	UNKNOWN	MT	Both candidates are making a major push in Iowa.	Both candidates are delivering a great attack in Iowa.
539	YES	QA	Lin Piao, after all, was the creator of Mao's "Little Red Book" of quotations.	Lin Piao wrote the "Little Red Book".
209	UNKNOWN	IR	A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker or attackers intend to kill others and intend to die in the process (see suicide). In a suicide attack in the strict sense the attacker dies by the attack itself, for example in an explosion or crash caused by the attacker.	People were killed in Tamil suicide attacks.
663	YES	SUM	One of Argentina's top Falkland negotiators said Mr Hurd's visit the first by a cabinet minister since the 1982 Falklands conflict meant we are on our way to a broader richer relationship in which the islands are only a part of the relationship not the only issue.	Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.
755	NO	IE	Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a maker of high-speed networking systems, which he later sold to Cisco Systems.	Bechtolsheim was the owner of Cisco Systems.
111	NO	QA	By 1979, the literacy rate in Cuba was higher than 90%, comparable to the rates in the United States and other developed countries.	The literacy rate in Cuba is 90%.
275	YES	IR	For instance, the direct and indirect economic cost of the floods in Mozambique caused by Tropical Storms Elyne and Gloria in February and March 2000, is estimated at US$1 billion, as compared to the country's export earning of only US$300 million in 1999.	A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
660	UNKNOWN	SUM	Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.	Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds.
781	YES	CD	Voting for a new European Parliament was clouded by concerns over apathy.	Voting for a new European Parliament has been clouded by apathy .
695	YES	IR	Another factor in the rising cost of paper is the increased cost of wood pulp, from which paper is made	The cost of paper is rising.
450	YES	QA	Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the government-controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-Cypriot northern one-third.	Cyprus was divided in 1974.
180	YES	RC	The Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.	The SEC's new rule will give boards independence.
761	YES	SUM	The voluntary recall is considered a Class II recall since it covers products that might cause a temporary health problem or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature, the FDA said.	A Class II recall covers products that might cause a temporary health problem.
492	UNKNOWN	QA	Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.	Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.
520	YES	PP	Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.	18 states have provisions that permit women who quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance.

678

YES

CD

Coextensive with the metropolitan district of Jakarta Raya, it lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of Java.

Jakarta lies at the mouth of the Ciliwung ( Liwung River ) on the northwest coast of the island of Java.

423

UNKNOWN

QA

Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.

French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.

153

YES

RC

The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci from 1503-1506, hangs in Paris' Louvre Museum.

The Mona Lisa is in France.

566

YES

QA

The headquarters of the WTO are in Geneva, but the disputes which come under its purview are settled in Paris, under ICC rules.

The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.

192

UNKNOWN

RC

Oil prices edged up today as Norwegian employers said they would respond to a strike by locking out all workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output.

Workers strike in response to Norwegian employers' threats.

582

UNKNOWN

QA

"For Japanese yakuza, the most important thing is staying alive, and making money is second," the yakuza said.

Yakuza are the Japanese mafia.

732

NO

SUM

Mr Lopez Obrador, who lost July's presidential election by less than one percentage point, declared himself Mexico's "legitimate" president.

Mr Lopez Obrador didn't loose the presidential election in July.

1929

YES

IE

Teenage sensation Wayne Rooney powered England into the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 with two goals in Monday's 4-2 defeat of Croatia and they were joined in the last eight by champions France who beat Switzerland 3-1.

France participates in Euro 2004.

748

UNKNOWN

IR

After the polio cases were identified, public health officials in the Dominican Republic and Haiti began giving the vaccines to large numbers of children. Public health officials now say the disease is under control and is not a public health threat.

Polio is under control in the world.

615

YES

SUM

Security forces were on high alert after an election campaign in which more than 1,000 people, including seven election candidates, have been killed.

Security forces were on high alert after a campaign marred by violence.

413

NO

QA

A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.

A female rabbit is called a buck.

173

UNKNOWN

RC

However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.

Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Baquba's group.

594

YES

QA

"For the first time in history, the players are investing their own money to ensure the future of the game," Atlanta Brave pitcher Tom Glavine said.

Tom Glavine plays for the Atlanta Braves.

411

YES

QA

Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.

344

UNKNOWN

QA

There is a growing sense of urgency to deal with the country's social issues, and a large number of professional NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability.

BOVESPA is an NGO.

500

UNKNOWN

QA

To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.

"The Persians" was written by Aeschylus.

553

YES

QA

Colin L. Powell and Laura Bush, wife of Gov. George W. Bush, are to speak on the opening night in Philadelphia, while the Democrats have tentative plans to have President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton address the delegates on the first night in Los Angeles.

The name of George W. Bush's wife is Laura.

595

YES

QA

Brown brushed off a threat made Monday by his counterpart, Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi, that if China's effort to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) by the year's end is unsuccessful, Beijing will no longer be bound by previous trade and economic commitments.

Wu Yi is the Foreign Trade Minister of China.

432

UNKNOWN

SUM

In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until completely blended and frothy.

In a bowl, whisk together the egg, sugar and vanilla until light in color.

58

YES

IE

On the morning of 1 June, there was a blackout throughout most of the capital caused by urban commandos of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).

FMLN caused a blackout in the capital.

612

YES

SUM

Basque separatist party Batasuna is widely regarded as the political wing of the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a linkage it denies.

Batasuna denies it is the political wing of ETA.

1179

YES

MT

Security authorities have declared a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala, which is located directly in the path of the hurricane.

There is a state of maximum emergency in Guatemala because of the hurricane.

633

YES

QA

Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.

174

YES

IE

Steve Jobs was attacked by Sculley and other Apple executives for not delivering enough hot new products and resigned from the company a few weeks later.

Steve Jobs worked for Apple.

82

YES

IE

Jerry Reinsdorf (born February 25 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is the owner of Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Bulls. Recently, he helped the White Sox win the 2005 World Series and, in the process, collected his seventh championship ring overall (the first six were all with the Bulls in the 1990s), becoming the third owner in the history of North American sports to win a championship in two different sports.

Jerry Reinsdorf has won 7 championships.

75

YES

IE

Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.

Antonio Fazio works for the Bank of Italy.

707

UNKNOWN

SUM

The owners of Phinda, the South African-based Conservation Corporation, could not have paid for a better advertisement for their philosophy of wildlife conservation: a people-based approach to conservation, which is slowly gaining ground in Africa as game reserves come under ever greater threat from hungry, poor and angry local populations.

The South African-based Conservation Corporation threatens the local population.

188

YES

IE

White supported Gough Whitlam's Labor government of 1972 to 1975, and after Whitlam was ousted in the 1975 constitutional crisis, became particularly anti-royalist.

White assisted the Labor government from 1972 to 1975.

203

YES

IR

In a sharply-worded internal World Bank report (leaked to The New York Times) the Bank has criticized its own decision to approve a controversial $40 million anti-poverty plan.

The World Bank is criticized for its policies.

202

YES

QA

We believe that, with the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, visitors from Taiwan will be encouraged to stay longer in Hong Kong, to experience the magic of our theme park and of our city.

Disneyland is in Hong Kong.

553

YES

QA

Pibul Songgram was the pro-Japanese military dictator of Thailand during World War 2.

Pibul was the dictator of Thailand.

259

UNKNOWN

IR

First Canadian and then Dutch peacekeepers were deployed in Srebrenica. Seven hundred and fifty lightly armed UN peace-keepers were responsible for disarming Srebrenica's Muslim defenders and "deterring" Bosnian Serb attacks against the safe area. Two years later, a Serb flag flew where the UN's once did and 7,079 Muslim men were missing.

Dutch photos of Srebrenica have disappeared.

46

UNKNOWN

IE

Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.

Several honorary consuls were kidnapped on 4 May 88.

367

YES

IR

There are actually good grounds to believe that legalization would reduce the costs of respiratory damage from marijuana smoking by encouraging the development of better smoke filtration technology, the substitution of more potent, less smoke-producing varieties of marijuana, and the substitution of oral preparations for smoked marijuana.

Drug legalization has benefits.

287

UNKNOWN

IR

The harvest of sea-weeds is not allowed in the Puget Sound because of marine vegetation's vital role in providing habitat to important species.

Marine vegetation is harvested.

702

UNKNOWN

IE

The chaotic situation unleashed in Bogota last night, with the assasination of Justice Carlos Valencia, began on 28 July in Medellin, when motorized paid assasins murdered third public order Judge Maria Elena Diaz.

Justice Carlos Valencia was killed in Medellin.

323

UNKNOWN

IR

Ronaldo Luiz Nazario da Silva is quite simply one of the greatest strikers in the history of world football, capable of leaving an entire team for dead with his darting runs and dribbling ability, voted FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions and already a double FIFA World Cup winner.

FIFA selects world football player of the year 1994.

434

YES

IE

Self-sufficiency has been turned into a formal public awareness campaign in San Francisco, by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Gavin Newsom is a politician of San Francisco.

791

UNKNOWN

IR

It is hoped that women, who constitute more than half of the population, will vote for other women and ensure that their issues are represented in parliament.

Women are poorly represented in parliament.

429

UNKNOWN

QA

Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."

Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.

301

UNKNOWN

IR

New York boasts the largest number of billionaires, with 40 residing in the Big Apple. The world's youngest billionaire is 22-year-old Hind Hariri, daughter of assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The number of billionaires increases.

674

NO

SUM

The United Nations last night elected eight judges for the international war crimes tribunal that will try those accused of murders and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia since 1991.

11 judges in the Yugoslavia war tribunal were sworn in at the World court.

704

YES

SUM

Libya's case against Britain and the US concerns the dispute over their demand for extradition of Libyans charged with blowing up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in 1988.

One case involved the extradition of Libyan suspects in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing.

126

UNKNOWN

SUM

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.

North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks.

1186

NO

MT

The Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Office had earlier purposely asserted that the case is strictly in the jurisdiction of the police and the justice system.

The jurisdiction of the case was queried by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

112

YES

SUM

On Friday evening, a car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing seven people and wounding 10, doctors said on condition of anonymity.

A bomb exploded outside a mosque.

398

YES

SUM

A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

382

UNKNOWN

IR

There are many motives for suicide attacks: religious beliefs, nationalistic ideologies, obedience to charismatic and authoritarian leaders, or desire for political change. The modus operandi may vary, whether to use one or several suicide bombers, whether to use men or women.

People were killed in Tamil suicide attacks.

256

UNKNOWN

IR

Ewald, now 74, headed the East German Sports Federation from 1961 to 1988. He was found guilty of making 142 East German sportswomen, mostly swimmers and athletes, take banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Several sportswomen have been accused of doping.

579

YES

QA

The anti-terrorist court found two men guilty of murdering Shapour Bakhtiar and his secretary Sorush Katibeh, who were found with their throats cut in August 1991.

Shapour Bakhtiar died in 1991.

2095

UNKNOWN

MT

Scientists had thought all gamma-ray bursts had a standard energy.

The scientists had thought that all explosions gamma the ray have a standard energy.

214

YES

IE

Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.

Oqueli was a member of the Socialist party.

325

YES

IR

Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space, a staggering 438 days, between 1994 and 1995.

Russians hold record for longest stay in space.

678

UNKNOWN

SUM

This is only the fourth time that the Security Council has imposed sanctions, the earlier cases being against Rhodesia, South Africa and, most recently, Iraq.

The Court endorsed U.N. sanctions against Libya.

648

YES

QA

Yoko Ono, widow of murdered Beatles star John Lennon, has plastered the small German town of Langenhagen with backsides.

Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife.

304

YES

IR

Nick Leeson was jailed for fraud following the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995. He had run up losses of 850m on the Far East stock markets.

Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC.

544

YES

QA

When the Berlin Wall fell in early November, 1989 Berlin's east and west sections were rejoined to create the third-largest city in Europe , with a population of about 3 million.

The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989.

457

UNKNOWN

QA

By law, Mexico can only export half the oil it produces to the United States.

Mexico produces more oil than any other country.

628

NO

SUM

Witnesses allegedly hear and see documents being shredded all night long by Jorge Alvarez Aguirre and Rosario Piazza, two ex-Opel men who had followed their leader to VW.

People leaving GM with Lopez included Jose Gutierrez, Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, and Rosario Piazza.

38

YES

IE

Côte d'Ivoire, once a haven of stability in West Africa and the world's top cocoa producer, has been split in two since a failed coup against Gbagbo in September 2002, pitting rebels from the Muslim-dominated north against the Christian-populated south.

Côte d'Ivoire is located in Africa.

1975

UNKNOWN

PP

A matching fingerprint was discovered on the strap.

A matching fingerprint was excavated from the strap.

506

YES

QA

The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as 'the Red Planet'.

Mars is called 'the red planet'.

945

YES

IE

Guerrillas killed a peasant in the city of Flores.

Guerrillas killed a civilian

21

YES

SUM

The jet was carrying 152 tourists from Martinique, returning home after a week in Panama, officials said.

The plane was returning to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, from Panama.

233

UNKNOWN

IR

Chirac needed a new mandate for his government from the electorate, or a new left government was needed that could count on the support of the trade union bureaucracy and among the working class and so would encounter less resistance.

Parliamentary elections create new government in France.

1162

UNKNOWN

MT

UNSCOM employs about 120 persons in Iraq, including 40 inspectors.

Wilson uses some 120 persons in Iraq, 40 of whom are inspectors.

493

YES

IR

IBM stole trade secrets to copy two of its programs -- File-AID, a file manager, and Abend-AID, a program that helps users locate the source of glitches.

Trade secrets were stolen.

397

YES

IR

With the publication of Sophie's World in 1991, Gaarder gained international fame. Sophie's World spent three years as the best selling book in Norway. His first book to be translated into English, Sophie's World was also the top-selling book in Germany, France, and Great Britain.

Sophie's World is a best seller.

321

NO

QA

John Paul II was the first non-Italian Pope in exactly 600 years, so other things being equal, his successor would presumably be Italian.

John Paul II is Italian.

653

YES

SUM

Argentina's campaign to re-establish itself as a trustworthy trading partner was boosted yesterday with the underwriting of a Dollars 9.5m buyer credit by Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department.

Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department underwrites loans to Argentina.

79

YES

IR

The privately owned spacecraft only got about 400 feet into space, according to radar measurements, but it was enough to confirm that it no longer takes a well-heeled government project to organize space travel.

private spaceship launches

447

UNKNOWN

QA

A condition called "social anxiety disorder" this week joined the long list of downers in life - including obesity, impotence, depression and phobia - that Americans once commonly saw as challenges of willpower and character but can now have treated by popping a pill.

Phobia is a an extreme fear of a particular thing or situation.

2132

NO

RC

Ralph Fiennes, who has played memorable villains in such films as 'Red Dragon' and 'Schindler's List,' is to portray Voldemort, the wicked warlock, in the next Harry Potter movie.

Ralph Fiennes will play Harry Potter in the next movie.

1244

YES

MT

The source added that the investigation proved that the bases of the genocide crime "were completed with a series of illegal arrests followed in some cases with assassinations or cases of disappearances and were preceded, according to information attached to the file, by cases of torture."

Investigators discovered that a series of illicit arrests of were often followed by disappearances or murders and were preceded by torture.

268

YES

IE

There can be no doubt that the Administration already is weary of Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest who in December, 1990, won an overwhelming victory in Haiti's only democratic presidential election

Aristide became president of Haiti in 1990.

564

UNKNOWN

QA

The Republic of Tajikistan, which declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, is in a region that has changed hands many times.

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

800

YES

CD

Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr. in an attempted assassination, but made a remarkably speedy recovery.

Reagan survived an attempted assassin's bullets.

57

UNKNOWN

SUM

Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors, while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader, once again, proved favorites in the best actor category.

Patricia Arquette collected best drama actress for psychic crime drama "Medium", while James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal" for a second year.

692

UNKNOWN

SUM

A brain-dead teenager was removed from life-support equipment after giving birth to a premature daughter.

Pregnant women are allowed to die after they deliver their babies.

177

YES

IE

Tom Online revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2005 were US$42.78 mn, an increase of 38.5% over the same period in 2004.

Tom Online revenues have risen by 38.5%.

733

YES

CD

According to tradition, they founded Tenochtitlan ( "Place of the High Priest Tenoch" ) after much wandering when they saw on an island in Lake Texcoco the sign that their god Huitzilopochtli had indicated -- an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a serpent .

They saw an eagle perched on a cactus eating a serpent.

226

YES

IR

Both sides have a point. German spelling does need overhauling: over the decades, it has grown more unwieldy. But the reform, approved by German-speaking countries in 1996, does not make the rules much easier, and in some cases the new way is harder.

A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.

71

YES

QA

In support of the Earth Island Institute rebuttal, Greenpeace founder Don White made the following - unfortunately prophetic - public statement on 8/18/93.

Don White is the founder of Greenpeace.

569

UNKNOWN

IR

About 3 million years ago, when Lucy was alive, she was rather short, about 4 feet tall, and probably weighed about 50 pounds.

Humans existed 10,000 years ago.

589

YES

QA

That prompted Clinton, wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea to spend a cold and dreary Saturday in Minsk.

Clinton's wife is called Hillary Rodham Clinton.

2101

UNKNOWN

MT

Both candidates are making a major push in Iowa.

Both candidates are delivering a great attack in Iowa.

539

YES

QA

Lin Piao, after all, was the creator of Mao's "Little Red Book" of quotations.

Lin Piao wrote the "Little Red Book".

209

UNKNOWN

IR

A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker or attackers intend to kill others and intend to die in the process (see suicide). In a suicide attack in the strict sense the attacker dies by the attack itself, for example in an explosion or crash caused by the attacker.

People were killed in Tamil suicide attacks.

663

YES

SUM

One of Argentina's top Falkland negotiators said Mr Hurd's visit the first by a cabinet minister since the 1982 Falklands conflict meant we are on our way to a broader richer relationship in which the islands are only a part of the relationship not the only issue.

Relations between Argentina and Great Britain are growing more cooperative.

755

NO

IE

Bechtolsheim left Sun in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a maker of high-speed networking systems, which he later sold to Cisco Systems.

Bechtolsheim was the owner of Cisco Systems.

111

NO

QA

By 1979, the literacy rate in Cuba was higher than 90%, comparable to the rates in the United States and other developed countries.

The literacy rate in Cuba is 90%.

275

YES

IR

For instance, the direct and indirect economic cost of the floods in Mozambique caused by Tropical Storms Elyne and Gloria in February and March 2000, is estimated at US$1 billion, as compared to the country's export earning of only US$300 million in 1999.

A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.

660

UNKNOWN

SUM

Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.

Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds.

781

YES

CD

Voting for a new European Parliament was clouded by concerns over apathy.

Voting for a new European Parliament has been clouded by apathy .

695

YES

IR

Another factor in the rising cost of paper is the increased cost of wood pulp, from which paper is made

The cost of paper is rising.

450

YES

QA

Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the government-controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-Cypriot northern one-third.

Cyprus was divided in 1974.

180

YES

RC

The Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.

The SEC's new rule will give boards independence.

761

YES

SUM

The voluntary recall is considered a Class II recall since it covers products that might cause a temporary health problem or pose only a slight threat of a serious nature, the FDA said.

A Class II recall covers products that might cause a temporary health problem.

492

UNKNOWN

QA

Victor Emmanuel was born on Nov. 11, 1869, in Naples. After his father, Umberto I, was assassinated in 1900, Victor Emmanuel succeeded to the throne.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.

520

YES

PP

Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.

18 states have provisions that permit women who quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance.