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
Joseph Stiglitz Senior Vice President of the World Bank
Joseph Stiglitz Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
Seán Lester Secretary-General of the League of Nations
Seán Lester High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig
NATO Assistant Secretaries General nationals of NATO member states via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
Alexander Campbell first president of Bethany College
Paola Ruffo di Calabria Queen of the Belgians
Pope Paul III Pope
Pope Paul III Pope
surface form: Bishop of Rome
Pope Paul III Papal States
surface form: Sovereign of the Papal States
Pope Paul III Cardinal-bishop of Ostia via predicate surface "heldTitle"
Pope Paul III Cardinal-bishop of Sabina via predicate surface "heldTitle"
Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile abbess
Sir Matt Busby half-back via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Charles Malik President of the United Nations General Assembly
Charles Malik President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Charles Malik Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs
Charles Malik Lebanese Minister of Education
Charles Malik Lebanese Ambassador to the United States
Charles Malik Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations
John Humphrey Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights
Fridtjof Nansen Rector of the University of Oslo
Fridtjof Nansen Norwegian ambassador to the United Kingdom
Fridtjof Nansen League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Barbara Volcker
surface form: Paul A. Volcker
Chair of the Federal Reserve
Griswold Hall
surface form: Erwin N. Griswold
Dean of Harvard Law School
Nathaniel Hawthorne Surveyor of the Port of Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne United States Consul in Liverpool
Mayor of San Francisco Government of San Francisco via predicate surface "positionHeldInOrganization"
surface form: San Francisco city government
Gerd von Rundstedt Commander-in-Chief West
Gerd von Rundstedt Gerd von Rundstedt self-linksurface differs
surface form: Oberbefehlshaber West
Gerd von Rundstedt Commander of Army Group South
Gerd von Rundstedt Commander of Army Group A
Gerd von Rundstedt Commander of Army Group D
Robert Langer Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sasha Obama First Daughter of the United States
Randi Zuckerberg Director of Market Development at Facebook
Coretta Scott King Martin Luther King III
surface form: President of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Alexander Graham Bell Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at Boston University
Alexander Graham Bell President of the National Geographic Society
Andrew S. Grove President of Intel Corporation
Andrew S. Grove Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation
Andrew S. Grove Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation
John Aspinwall Roosevelt vice president of Bache & Co.
Duke University Vincent E. Price via predicate surface "president"
Washington University in St. Louis Andrew D. Martin via predicate surface "president"
Henry Darwin Rogers state geologist of Pennsylvania
Henry Darwin Rogers Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Glasgow
Charles M. Vest President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles M. Vest President of the National Academy of Engineering