officeContested

P495
predicate

Indicates that a particular office or position is being actively sought or challenged by multiple parties in an election or selection process.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
officeContested canonical 2,621
officeContestedIn 264
positionContested 118

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: officeContested
Generated description
Indicates that a particular office or position is being actively sought or challenged by multiple parties in an election or selection process.

Sample triples (3,061)

Subject Object
Russell Pearce Arizona Senate
surface form: Arizona State Senate
George Law Curry Governor of Oregon
Hatta
surface form: Mohammad Hatta
President of Indonesia
Bull
surface form: Bull Connor
Governor of Alabama
Victoria Muñoz Mendoza Governor of Puerto Rico
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson First Lady of the United States
Laura Kelly Governor of Kansas
John
surface form: John C. Stennis
United States Senator from Mississippi
surface form: United States Senate seat from Mississippi
John
surface form: John Michael Mulvaney
South Carolina's 5th congressional district
surface form: U.S. House of Representatives seat for South Carolina's 5th congressional district
Patrick Brown Premier of Ontario
Hans Bonte federal parliamentary seat in Belgium
Philip Hart United States Senate seat from Michigan
Nelson W. Aldrich United States Senate from Rhode Island
Iowa Democratic caucuses 2000 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States
Dennis Kucinich President of the United States
Bonnie Crombie Mayor of Mississauga
Bonnie Crombie Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
Constable of St Helier parish elections in St Helier via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
Rosh HaMemshala Israeli legislative election via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
Robert Morgan United States Senate re-election in 1980
Sherrod Brown President of the United States
Souphanouvong head of state of Laos
Sandy Berger United States Senate (New York) primary 1970s
Charles S. Deneen United States Senate election in Illinois
P. Subbarayan Madras Presidency legislative council seat
Robert Barnhill Roosevelt U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 4th district
Secretary‑General of the Union of South American Nations selection by consensus of UNASUR member states via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
Walter Washington Mayor of the District of Columbia
Moorfield Storey United States House of Representatives
Cipollone
surface form: Pat Cipollone
White House Counsel
Now More Than Ever President of the United States via predicate surface "positionContested"
George Dern Governor of Utah
George Dern United States Senate
Val Hoyle U.S. House of Representatives seat from Oregon
Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands general elections via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
Endicott Peabody (governor)
surface form: Endicott Peabody
Governor of Massachusetts
Lord Woolf none
2000 United States House of Representatives elections U.S. Representative
2006 United States House of Representatives elections U.S. Representative
Margot Wallström Member of the European Parliament
Rowan D. Wilson Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
2008 United States House of Representatives elections U.S. Representative
Lena Ek European Parliament elections
Michael D. Higgins was re-elected in 2018
surface form: Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland election 2011
Michael D. Higgins was re-elected in 2018
surface form: Michael D. Higgins
President of Ireland election 2018
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina North Carolina statewide general elections via predicate surface "officeContestedIn"
1922 California gubernatorial election Governor of California via predicate surface "positionContested"
Amarjeet Sohi mayor of Edmonton
Amarjeet Sohi Member of Parliament of Canada