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

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
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Adolphe Thiers French politician
Thomas Hopkinson public official
Archduke Albert of Austria governor
Maurice Thorez French politician
Marie-George Buffet French politician
William L. Dayton
Abdullah Abdullah
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi government minister
Dinshaw Edulji Wacha political leader
Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister of India
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick political figure
Kunio Hatoyama Japanese politician
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Hans Wiegel Dutch politician
Naoki Tanaka Japanese politician
Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby British politician
Lord Halifax
surface form: George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax
British statesman
Lord Rochford British statesman
George Hearst
Mohammad Khatami reformist politician
Oleksandr Kornienko
Joseph Chamberlain British politician
Raúl Alfonsín
Juan Pistarini
Joe Clark Canadian politician
Flora MacDonald Canadian politician
J. William Fulbright
Rob Bonta
Jules Grévy French politician
Daniil Granin public figure
Mário Soares Portuguese politician
William H. Webster public official
Halvard Lange Norwegian politician
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin French politician
Francisco Ramos da Costa Portuguese politician
Clare Short British politician
Hugo Carvajal intelligence chief
Speaker of the Parliament
surface form: Speaker of the Parliament of Iran
presiding officer
Edward Wortley Montagu British politician
Keir Hardie
Tony Abbott
Enda Kenny
Richard Mulcahy (as party leader influence, historically associated)
surface form: Richard Mulcahy
Irish politician
Alberto Núñez Feijóo Spanish politician
Ulf Kristersson
Bernadette Chirac French politician
Bhimsen Thapa prime minister
Ignazio Marino
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond