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
William I of the Netherlands Prince of Orange
William I of the Netherlands King of the Netherlands
surface form: Stadtholder of the Netherlands in exile
Philip IV of Spain King of Spain
Philip IV of Spain King of Portugal
Philip IV of Spain King of Naples
Philip IV of Spain King of Sicily
Philip IV of Spain Victor Amadeus II of Savoy
surface form: King of Sardinia
Philip IV of Spain Duke of Milan
Philip IV of Spain Lord of the Seventeen Provinces
Surabaya Mayor of Surabaya via predicate surface "leaderTitle"
Constantijn Huygens secretary to Prince Frederick Henry of Orange
Constantijn Huygens secretary to Prince William II of Orange
Constantijn Huygens secretary to Prince William III of Orange
George McClellan
surface form: George B. McClellan
general-in-chief of the Union armies
George McClellan
surface form: George B. McClellan
Governor of New Jersey
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan President via predicate surface "leaderTitle"
Syria
surface form: Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria
George Wallace Governor of Alabama
George Wallace Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
George Wallace Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Alabama
Dan Snyder owner of Washington NFL franchise
Darrell Green cornerback via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
American University Sylvia M. Burwell via predicate surface "president"
Hannibal Hamlin Vice President of the United States
Hannibal Hamlin United States Senator from Maine
Hannibal Hamlin Governor of Maine
Hannibal Hamlin Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine
Hannibal Hamlin Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
Hannibal Hamlin Maine state representative
Tomoyuki Yamashita commander of the 25th Army (Imperial Japanese Army)
Tomoyuki Yamashita commander of the 14th Area Army (Imperial Japanese Army)
Tomoyuki Yamashita commander of the First Area Army
Tomoyuki Yamashita military attaché in Germany
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
HeinrichHimmler self-linksurface differs
surface form: Reichsführer-SS
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Chief of German Police
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany
surface form: Reich Minister of the Interior
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Head of the Gestapo
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Head of the Waffen-SS
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (oversight)
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood
Henry
surface form: Henry Kissinger
United States Secretary of State
Henry
surface form: Henry Kissinger
United States National Security Advisor
Henry
surface form: Henry Kissinger
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Christopher Varmus
surface form: Harold Varmus
Director of the National Institutes of Health
Thomas Boylston Adams member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
Thomas Boylston Adams chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit of Massachusetts
Thomas Boylston Adams clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Thomas Boylston Adams secretary to the U.S. minister to the Netherlands
Thomas Boylston Adams secretary to the U.S. legation in Prussia
Dexter Scott King President of the King Center