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
Lala Lajpat Rai President of All India Trade Union Congress
Jonathan Kraft president of the New England Patriots
Kurt Warner quarterback via predicate surface "positionPlayed"
Los Angeles Galaxy Chris Klein via predicate surface "president"
Princess of Orange Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands via predicate surface "currentHolder"
surface form: Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange
Edward Beecher pastor of Park Street Church, Boston
Edward Beecher first president of Illinois College
Edward Beecher pastor in Galesburg, Illinois
Edward Beecher pastor in Brooklyn, New York
Rachel Carson aquatic biologist
Rachel Carson editor-in-chief of publications for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Norman Foster chairman of Foster + Partners
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Minister of State of Spain
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Spanish ambassador to the United Kingdom
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Spanish ambassador to Italy
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Spanish ambassador to the Holy See
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Spanish ambassador to Belgium
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia Spanish ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
Napoleon II heir apparent to the French Empire
Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Aragon
Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Castile
Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Sicily
Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Naples
Ferdinand II of Aragon King of Navarre
Ferdinand II of Aragon Regent of Castile
Ferdinand II of Aragon Sovereign of the Spanish overseas territories
Michael Palin President of the Royal Geographical Society
Mary Everest Boole librarian at Queen's College, London
Mary Everest Boole informal mathematics teacher at Queen's College, London
Jeremy Bentham member of Lincoln's Inn
Jeremy Bentham leading figure at University College London
John Rawls James B. Conant
surface form: James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University
Alfred L. Kroeber Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
Alfred L. Kroeber Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
Alfred L. Kroeber Director of the University of California Museum of Anthropology
Pope Innocent III Pope
Pope Innocent III Bishop of Rome
Gian Lorenzo Bernini chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica
Wilhelm Röntgen professor of physics
Wilhelm Röntgen rector of the University of Würzburg
Alexander Löhr commander of 4th Air Fleet
Alexander Löhr Oberbefehlshaber Südost
Alexander Löhr Commander-in-Chief in Southeast Europe
Alexander Löhr commander of Army Group E
County Attorney of McCracken County, Kentucky
surface form: Alben W. Barkley
County Attorney of McCracken County, Kentucky via predicate surface "heldPosition" self-linksurface differs
Chaim Weizmann Reuven Rivlin
surface form: President of Israel
Chaim Weizmann President of the World Zionist Organization
Chaim Weizmann President of the Zionist Organization
John Muir first president of the Sierra Club
Robert Adam Member of Parliament for Kinross-shire