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
David Steel life peer in the House of Lords
David Steel Member of the Scottish Parliament
David Neeleman chief executive officer of JetBlue Airways
David Neeleman chairman of JetBlue Airways
David Neeleman chief executive officer of Azul Brazilian Airlines
David Neeleman chief executive officer of Breeze Airways
Wheeler
surface form: Ted Wheeler
Office of the Mayor of Portland
surface form: Mayor of Portland, Oregon
Wheeler
surface form: Ted Wheeler
Oregon State Treasurer
Christine Sinclair forward via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
National Telecommunications and Information Administration Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information
Raúl Castro President of the Republic of Cuba
surface form: President of Cuba
Raúl Castro First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Raúl Castro Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Raúl Castro Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba
Raúl Castro First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba
Raúl Castro Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba
surface form: First Vice President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba
Bola Tinubu President of Nigeria
Bola Tinubu Governor of Lagos State
Bola Tinubu Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Western League
surface form: Ban Johnson
president of the Western League
Western League
surface form: Ban Johnson
president of the American League
Yaz
surface form: Carl Yastrzemski
left fielder via predicate surface "position"
Yaz
surface form: Carl Yastrzemski
first baseman via predicate surface "position"
Jane C. Ginsburg Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts
surface form: Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law
Charles Adams admitted to the bar in Massachusetts
Martin Luther King III President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King III CEO of the King Center
William Erasmus Darwin partner at Grant and Maddison Bank
Tim Wu Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School
Tim Wu Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy
Pope Paul VI Bishop of Rome
Pope Paul VI Sovereign of the Vatican City State
Pope Paul VI Pope
surface form: Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church
Pope Paul VI Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
Pope Paul VI Archbishop of Milan
Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands via predicate surface "hasPosition"
Roberto Azevêdo Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Roberto Azevêdo Brazil’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization
Irina Karamanos head of the cabinet of the First Lady of Chile
Irina Karamanos coordinator of programs traditionally associated with the Office of the First Lady of Chile
Eric Cantona forward via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Eric Cantona attacking midfielder via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Comptroller of New York Thomas P. DiNapoli via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
Comptroller of New York
surface form: Thomas P. DiNapoli
Comptroller of New York via predicate surface "position" self-linksurface differs
Guy T. Helvering Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering U.S. Representative
surface form: United States Representative
William I of Orange Maurice of Nassau
surface form: Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht
William I of the Netherlands King of the Netherlands
William I of the Netherlands Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
surface form: Grand Duke of Luxembourg
William I of the Netherlands Duke of Limburg