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
Barack Obama president of the Harvard Law Review
John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States
John F. Kennedy United States Senator from Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg chairman of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Meta Platforms
Mark Zuckerberg chairman of Meta Platforms
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
John Adams 2nd President of the United States
John Adams 1st Vice President of the United States
John Adams United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
John Adams United States Ambassador to the Netherlands
John Adams Delegate to the Continental Congress
John Adams Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Albert Einstein professor of theoretical physics
Martin Luther King Jr. pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr. co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church
Martin Luther King Jr. president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
John Nash professor of mathematics
Noam Chomsky Institute Professor at MIT
Noam Chomsky Professor of Linguistics
Harold Hazen professor of electrical engineering at MIT
National Military Establishment United States Secretary of Defense via predicate surface "hasPosition"
surface form: Secretary of Defense
National Military Establishment Secretary of the Army via predicate surface "hasPosition"
National Military Establishment Secretary of the Navy via predicate surface "hasPosition"
National Military Establishment Secretary of the Air Force via predicate surface "hasPosition"
Wes Wise Mayor of Dallas
Wes Wise member of the Dallas City Council
Julius
surface form: Julius Robert Oppenheimer
director of Los Alamos Laboratory
Julius
surface form: Julius Robert Oppenheimer
director of the Institute for Advanced Study
Moore
surface form: Edward Moore Kennedy
United States senator
Paul G. Kirk United States senator
Paul G. Kirk Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Paul G. Kirk Co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates
Paul G. Kirk interim United States senator from Massachusetts
Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee United States senator via predicate surface "heldBy"
Sununu
surface form: John H. Sununu
Governor of New Hampshire
Sununu
surface form: John H. Sununu
White House Chief of Staff
Sununu
surface form: John H. Sununu
Chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party
Sununu
surface form: Chris Sununu
Governor of New Hampshire
Sununu
surface form: John E. Sununu
United States Senator from New Hampshire
Sununu
surface form: John E. Sununu
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire
White House Chief of Staff John R. Steelman via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
White House Chief of Staff James Baker via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"