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
Zacarias Gusmão
Mari Alkatiri
Mohammad Beheshti
Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford English statesman
Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr.
Ned McWherter governor
Lauro Cavazos
Richard Riley
Terauchi Masatake Japanese politician
Ken Dryden
Qurei
surface form: Ahmed Qurei
Palestinian politician
Lord McAlpine British politician
Earl of Sunderland
surface form: Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
English statesman
Francisco León de la Barra (acting, in succession contexts)
surface form: Francisco León de la Barra
diplomat
Samantha Cohen
surface form: Donald Trump
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville governor
William Miranda Torres
Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu provincial party chief
Allan Boesak South African politician
Albertina Sisulu
Frank Chikane South African politician
Murphy Morobe
Jack Kemp United States representative
Lord Acton
Cecil D. Andrus governor
Friedrich Ebert
Miguel Lerdo de Tejada liberal politician
Jung Jang-seon
Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar political leader
Min Aung Hlaing
Charles Kennedy British politician
George P. Bush
Lord John Manners British politician
William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester
Mehmet Ali Şahin Turkish politician
Anne Walmesley
surface form: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
English statesman
Tanner
surface form: Väinö Tanner
Nigel Dodds (acting)
surface form: Nigel Dodds
Sydir Holubovych Ukrainian politician
Takakichi Aso
Murad Bey
Enrique Tierno Galván
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
Khalida Jarrar Palestinian politician
Andreas Norlén
John Haglelgam
Melih Gökçek Turkish politician
Marek Belka
Nie Rongzhen Chinese politician
Angelo Adkins public figure