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
Hillary Clinton Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast
Hillary Clinton 67th United States Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton United States Secretary of State via predicate surface "officeHeld"
Hillary Clinton United States Senator from New York via predicate surface "officeHeld"
Hillary Clinton First Lady of the United States via predicate surface "officeHeld"
Hillary Clinton First Lady of Arkansas via predicate surface "officeHeld"
Alexander Cochrane admiral in the Royal Navy
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
Vice President of the United States
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
United States Senator from Kansas
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
U.S. Representative
surface form: United States Representative from Kansas
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
Senate Majority Leader
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Indian Charley
surface form: Charles Curtis
Chair of the Senate Republican Conference
American Rembrandt
surface form: Eastman Johnson
co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan self-linksurface differs
surface form: President of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Prime Minister of Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Mayor of Istanbul
Manila Mayor via predicate surface "leaderTitle"
Manila Vice Mayor via predicate surface "leaderTitle"
Columbia Sportswear Timothy P. Boyle – Chief Executive Officer
Columbia Sportswear Timothy P. Boyle – Chief Executive Officer
surface form: Timothy P. Boyle – President
Columbia Sportswear Gert Boyle – former Chairwoman
Oregon State Treasurer state treasurer of Oregon via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
Shirley
surface form: Shirley Ann Jackson
President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Shirley
surface form: Shirley Ann Jackson
Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
President of the Royal Society Royal Society governance structure via predicate surface "isPositionIn"
Jędrzej Moraczewski Prime Minister of Poland
Jędrzej Moraczewski Minister of Public Works of Poland
Jędrzej Moraczewski Minister of Communications of Poland
Jędrzej Moraczewski member of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic
Nguyen Duy Trinh Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Vietnam
Nguyen Duy Trinh Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Duy Trinh Deputy Prime Minister of North Vietnam
Emil Adolf von Behring professor of hygiene at the University of Marburg
Jeffrey Wigand Vice President of Research and Development at Brown & Williamson
Joseph Pulitzer member of the Missouri House of Representatives
Crystal Eastman investigator for the New York State Commission on Employers' Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents
Siyani Chambers point guard via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
J. Michael Bishop Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco
Hans Albert Einstein Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Yolanda King eldest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King
Senate Minority Leader U.S. Senate party leadership via predicate surface "positionHeldIn"
James V. Forrestal United States Secretary of Defense
James V. Forrestal Secretary of the Navy
surface form: United States Secretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal Under Secretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal Special Assistant to the President
George F. Kennan Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
George F. Kennan United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
George F. Kennan United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Bernhard Riemann professor of mathematics