positionHeld

P8
predicate

Indicates that an entity occupies or has occupied a specific role, job, office, or position within an organization or context.

All labels observed (122)

Label Occurrences
positionHeld canonical 129,634
positionPlayed 11,449
position 4,486

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: positionHeld
Generated description
Indicates that an entity occupies or has occupied a specific role, job, office, or position within an organization or context.

Sample triples (162,264)

Subject Object
Bronk
surface form: Detlev W. Bronk
president of Johns Hopkins University
Bronk
surface form: Detlev W. Bronk
president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
Bronk
surface form: Detlev W. Bronk
president of the National Academy of Sciences (United States)
Ruckelshaus
surface form: William D. Ruckelshaus
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Ruckelshaus
surface form: William D. Ruckelshaus
Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ruckelshaus
surface form: William D. Ruckelshaus
United States Deputy Attorney General
surface form: Deputy Attorney General of the United States
Michelle Obama First Lady of the United States
Mark
surface form: Mark Zuckerberg
chief executive officer of Facebook
Mark
surface form: Mark Zuckerberg
chairman of Facebook
Mark
surface form: Mark Zuckerberg
chief executive officer of Meta Platforms
Abigail Adams First Lady of the United States
Abigail Adams Second Lady of the United States
Swiss Patent Office in Bern
surface form: Albert Einstein
technical expert via predicate surface "position"
Isaac Newton Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
Isaac Newton President of the Royal Society
Isaac Newton Warden of the Royal Mint
Isaac Newton Warden of the Royal Mint
surface form: Master of the Royal Mint
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King Jr. – first president
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King Jr. via predicate surface "president"
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Ralph Abernathy via predicate surface "president"
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Joseph Lowery via predicate surface "president"
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King III via predicate surface "president"
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Charles Steele Jr. via predicate surface "president"
Charles Lyell President of the Geological Society of London
Thomas Malthus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
Thomas Malthus Professor of History and Political Economy at the East India Company College
Oskar Morgenstern professor of economics
Robert H. MacArthur professor of biology at Princeton University
Lynn Margulis Professor of Biology at Boston University
Lynn Margulis Distinguished University Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nancy Hayes Sununu
surface form: John H. Sununu
Governor of New Hampshire
Nancy Hayes Sununu
surface form: John H. Sununu
White House Chief of Staff
Nancy Hayes Sununu
surface form: John E. Sununu
United States Senator from New Hampshire
Nancy Hayes Sununu
surface form: Chris Sununu
Governor of New Hampshire
Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris via predicate surface "currentHolder"
Isoroku Yamamoto Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Isoroku Yamamoto Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet
Isoroku Yamamoto Navy Minister of Japan
Isoroku Yamamoto Navy Minister of Japan
surface form: Vice Navy Minister of Japan
Thurgood Marshall Chief Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Thurgood Marshall Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Thurgood Marshall Office of the Solicitor General
surface form: Solicitor General of the United States
Thurgood Marshall Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Hundred Days
surface form: Hundred Days (FDR)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt via predicate surface "president"
surface form: Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Maynard Keynes Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
John Maynard Keynes editor of The Economic Journal
John Maynard Keynes Treasury official, British government
John Maynard Keynes advisor to the British government
Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini self-linksurface differs
surface form: Duce of the Italian Social Republic