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
Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda
William Jefferson Hague
surface form: William Hague
British politician
Matiu Rata New Zealand politician
Edward Terry Sanford Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Vincent Ostrom political scientist
Jonathan Russell diplomat
Makarios III
Josh Bolten (as White House Chief of Staff)
surface form: Josh Bolten
William F. Hagerty IV (as U.S. Ambassador to Japan)
surface form: William F. Hagerty IV
diplomat
James Meredith
Mayor Richard Hatcher
surface form: Richard Gordon Hatcher
Congressman Charles Diggs
surface form: Charles Diggs
Ron Dellums
Jake Ellzey
Ron Wright member of the United States House of Representatives
Joe Barton
Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
Donald Tusk
Leszek Balcerowicz
Connor Payton public figure
Mary Harrison McKee First Lady of the United States
Jonathan Evans British politician
Frank Dobson British politician
Barend Biesheuvel Dutch politician
James Sevier Conway
Schalk Willem Burger South African politician
Martha Karua
Martha Coakley
Michael Mackintosh Foot
surface form: Michael Foot
British politician
Hugh Foot
Dingle Foot British politician
Isaac Foot British politician
Morgan Luttrell
Richard Rush diplomat
Patrick Henry Founding Father of the United States
Tom McEwen communist
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad political leader
David Shackleton British politician
Edward Raczyński
Peter M. Christian
Léon Mébiame
Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze
William J. Brennan Jr. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Jacob
surface form: Jacob Lew
Nathaniel Moran
Oakland City Council District 6 Representative elected official
Frederick William Seward
Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger) Roman statesman
Roy Jenkins British politician