politician
C67
concept
A politician is a person who seeks or holds public office and engages in activities related to governance, policy-making, and representing the interests of constituents within a political system.
All labels observed (200)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| politician canonical | 7,770 |
| British politician | 1,302 |
| diplomat | 1,219 |
| statesman | 1,102 |
| French politician | 488 |
| governor | 348 |
| member of the United States House of Representatives | 338 |
| Indian politician | 307 |
| public figure | 276 |
| prime minister | 244 |
| Canadian politician | 240 |
| government official | 236 |
| political scientist | 217 |
| presiding officer | 207 |
| Italian politician | 190 |
| political leader | 188 |
| German politician | 184 |
| political figure | 182 |
| Chinese politician | 167 |
| Israeli politician | 162 |
| Japanese politician | 158 |
| Conservative Party politician | 157 |
| public official | 155 |
| government minister | 150 |
| English politician | 143 |
| Australian politician | 135 |
| Dutch politician | 125 |
| Irish politician | 125 |
| Labour Party politician | 123 |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | 119 |
| Polish politician | 116 |
| communist politician | 116 |
| Soviet politician | 115 |
| First Lady of the United States | 108 |
| communist | 104 |
| British statesman | 100 |
| Member of Parliament | 97 |
| South African politician | 95 |
| Founding Father of the United States | 84 |
| English statesman | 81 |
| president | 81 |
| Whig politician | 75 |
| Roman statesman | 74 |
| Turkish politician | 71 |
| public servant | 70 |
| Scottish politician | 68 |
| Chilean politician | 64 |
| Finnish politician | 64 |
| Spanish politician | 64 |
| Russian politician | 63 |
| Nigerian politician | 58 |
| Norwegian politician | 58 |
| Ukrainian politician | 55 |
| Pakistani politician | 52 |
| Palestinian politician | 52 |
| Vietnamese politician | 50 |
| liberal politician | 50 |
| Brazilian politician | 49 |
| socialist politician | 49 |
| Greek politician | 48 |
| Sri Lankan politician | 48 |
| Portuguese politician | 47 |
| dictator | 45 |
| Belgian politician | 44 |
| Liberal Party politician | 44 |
| United States representative | 43 |
| Prime Minister | 42 |
| Indonesian politician | 41 |
| New Zealand politician | 38 |
| state legislator | 38 |
| Colombian politician | 34 |
| party leader | 34 |
| Prime Minister of Japan | 30 |
| member of parliament | 30 |
| Iraqi politician | 28 |
| Lebanese politician | 27 |
| Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | 27 |
| United States Representative | 27 |
| independence leader | 27 |
| American statesman | 25 |
| Conservative politician | 25 |
| President of France | 25 |
| Egyptian politician | 22 |
| Prime Minister of New Zealand | 22 |
| communist leader | 22 |
| conservative politician | 22 |
| parliamentarian | 22 |
| Swiss politician | 21 |
| political role | 21 |
| Venezuelan politician | 20 |
| Athenian statesman | 19 |
| Libyan politician | 19 |
| United States Secretary of Defense | 18 |
| 政治人物 | 18 |
| Chancellor of Germany | 17 |
| Cuban politician | 17 |
| colonial politician | 17 |
| constitutional officer | 17 |
| local politician | 17 |
| Governor of California | 16 |
| North Korean politician | 16 |
| elected official | 16 |
| 政治家 | 16 |
| 衆議院議員 | 16 |
| 19th-century politician | 15 |
| lieutenant governor | 14 |
| political elite | 14 |
| socialist leader | 14 |
| Kurdish politician | 13 |
| Prime Minister of India | 13 |
| intelligence chief | 13 |
| minister | 13 |
| opposition leader | 13 |
| senator | 13 |
| Chinese Communist Party politician | 12 |
| President of Chile | 11 |
| President of Finland | 11 |
| Prime Minister of Canada | 11 |
| stateswoman | 11 |
| unionist politician | 11 |
| Burmese politician | 10 |
| Prime Minister of the Netherlands | 10 |
| Somali politician | 10 |
| Whig statesman | 10 |
| government minister of the United Kingdom | 10 |
| prime minister of Japan | 10 |
| Bermudian politician | 9 |
| legislator | 9 |
| political officeholder | 9 |
| American colonial politician | 8 |
| Governor of New York | 8 |
| Kuomintang politician | 8 |
| Nazi politician | 8 |
| chief minister | 8 |
| elected representative | 8 |
| political candidate | 8 |
| vice president | 8 |
| Islamist politician | 7 |
| Knesset member | 7 |
| Parliamentarian | 7 |
| Zimbabwean politician | 7 |
| former head of state | 7 |
| radical politician | 7 |
| 18th-century politician | 6 |
| Jamaican politician | 6 |
| nationalist politician | 6 |
| political boss | 6 |
| presidential candidate | 6 |
| prime minister of Canada | 6 |
| progressive politician | 6 |
| reformist politician | 6 |
| Politician | 5 |
| President of Turkey | 5 |
| government officeholder | 5 |
| member of state legislature | 5 |
| municipal politician | 5 |
| national leader | 5 |
| technocrat | 5 |
| vice president of the United States | 5 |
| 19th-century American politician | 4 |
| Confederate politician | 4 |
| Hong Kong politician | 4 |
| President of Ukraine | 4 |
| Whig Party politician | 4 |
| member of Parliament | 4 |
| public officeholder | 4 |
| public officeholder role | 4 |
| public officials | 4 |
| Governor of Alabama | 3 |
| Kuomintang member | 3 |
| Optimate politician | 3 |
| United States Senate committee chairmanship | 3 |
| Vincentian politician | 3 |
| leadership position in the United States Senate | 3 |
| member of the United States Congress | 3 |
| member of upper house | 3 |
| political leaders | 3 |
| populist politician | 3 |
| prime minister of Israel | 3 |
| right-wing politician | 3 |
| speaker of a legislature | 3 |
| 정치인 | 3 |
| American local politician | 2 |
| Christian Democracy politician | 2 |
| Dutch statesman | 2 |
| Norwegian diplomat | 2 |
| Polish socialist | 2 |
| President of Egypt | 2 |
| U.S. senator | 2 |
| United States politician | 2 |
| assassinated politician | 2 |
| centrist politician | 2 |
| female politician | 2 |
| former United States senator | 2 |
| former party leader | 2 |
| legislative leader | 2 |
| loyalist politician | 2 |
| member of the Chinese Communist Party | 2 |
| party official | 2 |
| political officeholder role | 2 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: politician
Generated description
A politician is a person who seeks or holds public office and engages in activities related to governance, policy-making, and representing the interests of constituents within a political system.
Instances (17,327)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
|
Massimo D’Alema
surface form:
Massimo D'Alema
|
Italian politician |
| Leslie Hore-Belisha | British politician |
| Averell Harriman | diplomat |
| Chittaranjan Das | — |
| Ralph Norman | — |
| Kathy Kraninger | government official |
| George Read | Founding Father of the United States |
| Ignazio La Russa | Italian politician |
| John Sparks | — |
| Lucy Webb Hayes | First Lady of the United States |
| Syed Ameer Ali | political leader |
| Arsen Avakov | — |
| Hanna Novosad | Ukrainian politician |
| Pat Buchanan | — |
| Sir George Carteret | English politician |
| Boris Sheremetev | statesman |
|
Molotov
surface form:
Vyacheslav Molotov
|
Soviet politician |
|
Nightingale of India
surface form:
Sarojini Naidu
|
— |
| Robert H. Jackson | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Isidor Straus | — |
| Madison Cawthorn | — |
| Nicolás Maduro | — |
| Pedro Santana Lopes | Portuguese politician |
|
Baron Carson
surface form:
Edward Carson
|
— |
| Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai | — |
|
The Incorruptible
surface form:
Maximilien Robespierre
|
— |
| Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire | British politician |
| Frank Underwood | — |
| Genrikh Yagoda | Soviet politician |
| John Evans | — |
| Raisa Maksimovna Titarenko | public figure |
| Pedro Passos Coelho | — |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Governor of New York |
| Harold F. Gosnell | political scientist |
|
Honcharuk
surface form:
Oleksiy Honcharuk
|
Ukrainian politician |
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen | — |
| Ingrid Schulerud | diplomat |
| Evo Morales | — |
| Constantin Sănătescu | prime minister |
| Guido Crosetto | Italian politician |
| Carlos Fuentes | diplomat |
| Saigō Takamori | statesman |
| Joshua R. Giddings | — |
|
Ludwig Fischer (acting in some capacities)
surface form:
Ludwig Fischer
|
— |
| Jack McConnell | Scottish politician |
| Ed Koch | — |
| Mario Monti | — |
| Reginald Maudling | British politician |
| Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman | — |
| Denys Maliuska | — |