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
George Washington President of the Constitutional Convention
George Washington Senior Officer of the United States Army
Henry Clay Frick chairman of Carnegie Steel Company
Henry Clay Frick partner of Andrew Carnegie
John Nance Garner Vice President of the United States
John Nance Garner Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
John Nance Garner Member of the United States House of Representatives
John Nance Garner Member of the Texas House of Representatives
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court via predicate surface "hasPosition"
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court via predicate surface "hasPosition"
Brooklyn Nets Sam Zussman via predicate surface "president"
Elon Musk CEO of SpaceX
Elon Musk Lead Designer at SpaceX
Elon Musk CEO of Tesla, Inc.
Elon Musk Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.
Elon Musk CEO of X Corp.
Elon Musk Executive Chairman of X Corp.
Elon Musk CTO of X Corp.
Elon Musk CEO of Neuralink
Elon Musk Founder of The Boring Company
Elon Musk Co-founder of OpenAI
Elon Musk Co-founder of Zip2
Elon Musk Co-founder of X.com
Elon Musk Chairman of SolarCity (former)
Donald Trump 45th president of the United States
Donald Trump President of the United States
Donald Trump President of the United States
surface form: Commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces
Donald Trump Chairman of The Trump Organization
Donald Trump host of The Apprentice
Republican Party party of the Union in the American Civil War via predicate surface "historicalPosition"
Republican Party party of Reconstruction via predicate surface "historicalPosition"
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
First Lord of the Treasury
surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Home Secretary
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Minister of Munitions
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Secretary of State for War
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Secretary of State for Air
Winston
surface form: Winston Churchill
Leader of the Opposition (UK)
Leader of the Opposition (UK) Keir Starmer via predicate surface "currentHolder"
Clementine Churchill Life peer in the House of Lords
Mahatma Gandhi leader of the Indian National Congress
Mahatma Gandhi leader of the Indian independence movement
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler self-linksurface differs
surface form: Führer of Germany
Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany
Angela Merkel Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Angela Merkel Federal Minister for Women and Youth
Angela Merkel Leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Angela Merkel Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag