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
Fredrick de Silva Sri Lankan politician
W. Dahanayake Sri Lankan politician
Yukiya Amano diplomat
William P. Frye
Anna Larina political figure
Youssef Boutros-Ghali
Robert Burnaby
President of the Massachusetts Senate presiding officer
Joseph Brant diplomat
Austen Henry Layard diplomat
Angus King
Lacey Beaty
Kristian Welhaven public official
Baroness Young of Hornsey British politician
Guy Verhofstadt
Kim Yo-jong North Korean politician
Lorenzo Brentano
Nurettin Sözen Turkish politician
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha
Ismail Haniyeh Palestinian politician
Armand Fallières French politician
Naoto Kan Japanese politician
Oliver Tambo
Mark Warner
Eric Wetzels
John M. Erickson
R. Rex Parris
William Pope Duval
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace First Lady of the United States
Irina Virganskaya public figure
Vasily Tatishchev statesman
John Hessin Clarke (as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
surface form: John Hessin Clarke
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Stanley Forman Reed (as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
surface form: Stanley Forman Reed
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
André Rouvoet Dutch politician
John Bright British politician
Lord Derby British statesman
J. G. Strydom
Charles Taylor
Valentina Tereshkova
Edward Carson
Karl Carstens
Henry Seymour Conway British politician
Chris Conway (politician)
Martin F. Conway (U.S. politician)
surface form: Martin F. Conway
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Talon
Andrew Jackson Donelson diplomat
George Gascón
Jim Ross
J. R. Jayewardene (as Prime Minister in 1977)
surface form: J. R. Jayewardene
Sri Lankan politician