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
Leonard Darwin President of the Eugenics Education Society
Leonard Darwin President of the Royal Geographical Society
Albert W. Tucker chair of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University
Albert W. Tucker president of the American Mathematical Society
Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev Head of Government of the Soviet Union
surface form: Premier of the Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Yoshio Nishina head of the Nishina Laboratory at RIKEN
Cam Neely right wing via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Yogi Berra catcher via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Eli Manning quarterback via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Niels Bohr Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen
Niels Bohr Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission
Ruslan Salakhutdinov Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Ruslan Salakhutdinov Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Ruslan Salakhutdinov Director of AI Research at Apple
Ruslan Salakhutdinov Director of Artificial Intelligence Research at Apple
Ruslan Salakhutdinov Canada CIFAR AI Chair
surface form: Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)
Ugochi Daniels Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration
Henry VII of England Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond via predicate surface "heldTitle"
surface form: Earl of Richmond
Markos Vafiadis commander of the Democratic Army of Greece
Miroslav Šatan right wing via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Miroslav Šatan general manager of Slovakia men's national ice hockey team
Elena Delle Donne small forward via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Elena Delle Donne power forward via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Marc Seriff Chief Technology Officer of AOL
Marc Seriff Senior technical executive at AOL
Edward VI of England King of England
Edward VI of England King of Ireland
Louisa May Alcott Civil War nurse
Jax Teller Vice President of SAMCRO
Jax Teller President of SAMCRO
Arch-marshal of the Holy Roman Empire leading prince of the empire via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
Arch-marshal of the Holy Roman Empire Prince-elector of Saxony via predicate surface "positionHeldBy"
D. F. Malan Prime Minister of South Africa
D. F. Malan Minister of the Interior of South Africa
D. F. Malan leader of the National Party
D. F. Malan Member of Parliament of South Africa
Jeremy Thorpe Leader of the Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe Member of Parliament for North Devon
Earl of Chatham
surface form: William Pitt the Elder
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Earl of Chatham
surface form: William Pitt the Elder
Leader of the House of Commons
Earl of Chatham
surface form: William Pitt the Elder
Secretary of State for the Southern Department
Earl of Chatham
surface form: William Pitt the Elder
Lord Privy Seal
Hollein
surface form: Max Hollein
Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hollein
surface form: Max Hollein
Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hollein
surface form: Max Hollein
Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco