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Her mother is the dean of education at Manhattanville College in Purchase , N.Y. , and a professor there .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Purchase", "/location/location/contains", "Manhattanville College" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Purchase", "/location/location/contains", "Manhattanville College" ] ] }, { "text": "Roy Blunt of Missouri , the Republican whip , has said he will not give back $ 14,000 because the contributions were legal and not part of any quid pro quo .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Roy Blunt", "/people/person/place_lived", "Missouri" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Roy Blunt", "/people/person/place_lived", "Missouri" ] ] }, { "text": "President Jacques Chirac of France has always liked African and Asian art , as he demonstrated with a flourish this week when he inaugurated the Musee du Quai Branly , a large , eye-catching building costing $ 295 million and devoted entirely to non-Western art .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Jacques Chirac", "/people/person/nationality", "France" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Jacques Chirac", "/people/person/nationality", "France" ] ] }, { "text": "A curving 600-foot-long ramp , inevitably reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright 's spiral at the Solomon R. 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "American Museum of Natural History" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "American Museum of Natural History" ] ] }, { "text": "Eight of 22 cars in the Formula Three race at Spa , Belgium , last Saturday were disqualified because their rear diffusers were a few millimeters too wide .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Belgium", "/location/location/contains", "Spa" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Belgium", "/location/location/contains", "Spa" ] ] }, { "text": "In 1994 in the New York City public schools , the proportion of uncertified teachers ranged from fewer than 2 percent in Queens -LRB- Districts 25 and 26 -RRB- and Staten Island to greater than 20 percent in five Harlem and South Bronx districts .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Harlem", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "New York City" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Harlem" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Queens" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Staten Island" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Queens" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Harlem" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Staten Island" ], [ "Harlem", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "New York City" ] ] }, { "text": "Rassi became hooked on the sport five years ago , on a weekend trip to Vermont -LRB- near left -RRB- , where he often shacks up at the Milk Studios house in Stratton . ''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Vermont", "/location/location/contains", "Stratton" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Vermont", "/location/location/contains", "Stratton" ] ] }, { "text": "The organization has its Northeast regional headquarters at the State University of New York at Farmingdale and provides dogs for people in New York , New Jersey , Connecticut , six other states and the District of Columbia . ''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Farmingdale" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Farmingdale" ] ] }, { "text": "He spent $ 4 million and came in fourth , but he got a lot of votes for someone who was totally unknown , '' said G. Oliver Koppell , a New York City councilman .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "G. Oliver Koppell", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "New York City" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "G. 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The Rev. Andrew C. Mead , an Episcopal priest , officiated , and the Rev. C. 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Rosenbluth , president of Kaufman Astoria Studios , the city 's original film studio , also in Queens , attribute the jump in activity to a joint city and state program that went into effect at the end of 2004 that offers tax incentives for films that complete 75 percent of their studio work in New York City . 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Albany County" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Albany County" ] ] }, { "text": "In lieu of flowers , the family requests that memorial donations be made to The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center , Cancer Research and Treatment Center , MSC08 4630 , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131-0001 .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Albuquerque", "/location/location/contains", "University of New Mexico" ], [ "New Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Albuquerque", "/location/location/contains", "University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, MSC08 4630, University of New Mexico" ], [ "Albuquerque", "/location/location/contains", "University of New Mexico" ], [ "New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Cancer Research and Treatment Center, MSC08 4630, University of New Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ], [ "Albuquerque", "/location/location/contains", "" ], [ "", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ], [ "New Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ] ] }, { "text": "A resident of Albuquerque , New Mexico , Dr. Schwab grew up in Oyster Bay , New York .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Oyster Bay" ], [ "New Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Oyster Bay" ], [ "New Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Albuquerque" ] ] }, { "text": "Dr. Schwab is survived by his wife Vicki McClendon Schwab and their children , Elizabeth , Emily , and Stuart T. 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}, { "text": "It all started in 1987 , when Newark was mired in crime and synonymous with urban blight , and its mayor , Sharpe James , heard a report that offended him .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Sharpe James", "/people/person/place_lived", "Newark" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Sharpe James", "/people/person/place_lived", "Newark" ] ] }, { "text": "Such disparate places as Newark , W. 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Fort Greene" ], [ "Fort Greene", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Fort Greene" ], [ "Fort Greene", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ] }, { "text": "Beginning next Tuesday , Ms. O'Hearn will oversee the production and editorial content of the George Stephanopoulos , above , program , according to an announcement yesterday from David Westin , the president of ABC News .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "George Stephanopoulos", "/business/person/company", "ABC News" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "David Westin", "/business/person/company", "ABC News" ] ] }, { "text": "New ` This Week ' Producer ABC News 's low-rated Sunday morning public affairs program '' This Week With George Stephanopoulos '' is getting a new executive producer , Katherine O'Hearn , returning to ABC from CNBC .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "George Stephanopoulos", "/business/person/company", "ABC News" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "George Stephanopoulos", "/business/person/company", "CNBC" ], [ "George Stephanopoulos", "/business/person/company", "ABC News" ] ] }, { "text": "In 1968 , after student protests rocked Berkeley , he was a co-chairman of an investigative committee that recommended changes that including giving the campus autonomy from the rest of California 's university system .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "California", "/location/location/contains", "Berkeley" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "California", "/location/location/contains", "Berkeley" ] ] }, { "text": "For the European and the United States teams , the memory of Heather Clarke will be at the forefront of the 36th Ryder Cup matches , which begin Sept. 22 at the K Club in Straffan , Country Kildare , Ireland .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Ireland", "/location/location/contains", "Straffan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Country Kildare", "/location/location/contains", "Straffan" ], [ "Ireland", "/location/location/contains", "Straffan" ] ] }, { "text": "A patent attorney in Manhattan for forty years and an ardent patron of the arts , he traveled extensively and lived in Greenwich Village , London , and Tokyo .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Greenwich Village", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Manhattan" ], [ "Manhattan", "/location/location/contains", "Greenwich Village" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Greenwich Village", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Manhattan" ], [ "Manhattan", "/location/location/contains", "Greenwich Village" ] ] }, { "text": "The five candidates for New York attorney general last night repeatedly invoked the name of Eliot Spitzer , the man they hope to succeed , in a forum broadcast statewide that was a polite antidote to what had been a rough-and-tumble race .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Eliot Spitzer", "/business/person/company", "New York" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Eliot Spitzer", "/business/person/company", "New York" ] ] }, { "text": "In the 1947 title game , he made an interception that was instrumental in the Cardinals ' 28-21 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at Comiskey Park in Chicago .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "Comiskey Park" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "Comiskey Park" ] ] }, { "text": "Marshall Goldberg , an All-American running back who led the University of Pittsburgh team to the consensus national championship in 1937 and who later became a six-time All-Pro defensive back for the Chicago Cardinals , helping them win the N.F.L. championship in 1947 , died on Monday in Chicago .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Marshall Goldberg", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Chicago" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "University of Pittsburgh" ], [ "Pittsburgh", "/location/location/contains", "University of Pittsburgh" ] ] }, { "text": "Protests marred the organization 's ministerial conferences in Seattle in 1999 and Cancun , Mexico , in 2003 , and are expected here in December .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Cancun" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Cancun" ] ] }, { "text": "A picture caption on Dec. 4 with a Style article about a revival of traditional fashion among young women in Kyoto , Japan , misidentified a geisha .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Japan", "/location/location/contains", "Kyoto" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Japan", "/location/location/contains", "Kyoto" ] ] }, { "text": "PAGE C2 George W. Bush 's No. 1 Fan Harriet E. Miers , the Supreme Court nominee , emerges as an unabashed fan of George W. Bush in official correspondence and personal notes made public in Texas .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "George W. Bush", "/business/person/company", "Texas" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "George W. 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Box 2600 , Ithaca , NY 14851 .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Ithaca", "/location/location/contains", "Cornell University" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Ithaca", "/location/location/contains", "Cornell University" ] ] }, { "text": "And on June 19 , the Hammerstein Ballroom -LRB- where the first benefit performance of '' The Vagina Monologues '' raised $ 250,000 for New York City anti-violence groups in 1998 -RRB- will be the site of '' A Memory , a Monologue , a Rant and a Prayer , '' a series of works by writers including Edward Albee , Michael Eric Dyson and Anna Deavere Smith with scheduled performances by Brittany Murphy , Cynthia Nixon , Isabella Rossellini , Marlo Thomas , Rosario Dawson and others .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Marlo Thomas", "/people/person/place_lived", "New York City" ], [ "Cynthia Nixon", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "New York City" ], [ "Cynthia Nixon", "/people/person/place_lived", "New York City" ], [ "Rosario Dawson", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "New York City" ], [ "Rosario Dawson", "/people/person/place_lived", "New York City" ], [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Hammerstein Ballroom" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Hammerstein Ballroom" ] ] }, { "text": "We 've opened safe houses for girls in Africa , Egypt , South Dakota native lands , Iraq .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Africa", "/location/location/contains", "Egypt" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Africa", "/location/location/contains", "Egypt" ] ] }, { "text": "Marie Tharp was born in Ypsilanti , Mich. , on July 30 , 1920 , into a mapping family .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Marie Tharp", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Ypsilanti" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Marie Tharp", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Ypsilanti" ] ] }, { "text": "WHAT did Aby Rosen , the New York real estate turnaround artist and co-founder of RFR Holding L.L.C. , do when new opportunities in Manhattan grew scarce ?", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Manhattan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Manhattan" ] ] }, { "text": "The Jets have been offered land for a practice complex in Monmouth County by New Jersey , but they presumably would prefer to remain at their Hempstead complex on Long Island .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New Jersey", "/location/location/contains", "Monmouth County" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New Jersey", "/location/location/contains", "Monmouth County" ], [ "Long Island", "/location/location/contains", "Hempstead" ] ] }, { "text": "PREVIEWS , PAGE D5 Santana Moss had 6 catches for 87 yards when Washington defeated Seattle on Oct. 2 .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Washington", "/location/location/contains", "Seattle" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Washington", "/location/location/contains", "Seattle" ] ] }, { "text": "Jackson 's grandfather William Rockefeller was once the president of Standard Oil , and Jackson added to his fortune as an owner of a minor league baseball team and as a sports agent .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Standard Oil", "/business/company/founders", "William Rockefeller" ], [ "William Rockefeller", "/business/person/company", "Standard Oil" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Standard Oil", "/business/company/founders", "William Rockefeller" ], [ "William Rockefeller", "/business/person/company", "Standard Oil" ] ] }, { "text": "The strategic steps necessary to fashion the state of Israel can be led only by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon , '' Mr. Hanegbi said .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Ariel Sharon", "/people/person/nationality", "Israel" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Ariel Sharon", "/people/person/nationality", "Israel" ] ] }, { "text": "And there he was on Friday night at Carnegie Hall , 97 , standing to receive applause after the New York premiere of '' Intermittences . 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Request Israel 's prime minister , Ehud Olmert , rebuffed a request from the United Nations secretary general , Kofi Annan , for even a partial lifting of the seven-week-old blockade of Lebanon to allow Beirut 's airport to resume normal operations .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Lebanon", "/location/location/contains", "Beirut" ], [ "Lebanon", "/location/country/capital", "Beirut" ], [ "Kofi Annan", "/business/person/company", "United Nations" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Lebanon", "/location/location/contains", "Beirut" ], [ "Lebanon", "/location/country/capital", "Beirut" ], [ "Ehud Olmert", "/people/person/nationality", "Israel" ], [ "Kofi Annan", "/business/person/company", "United Nations" ] ] }, { "text": "A22 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Apple 's Boardroom Move When Eric E. Schmidt , Google 's chief executive , was named to Apple Computer 's board , it touched off speculation about the motives of Apple 's co-founder , Steven P. Jobs .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Google", "/business/company/major_shareholders", "Eric E. Schmidt" ], [ "Eric E. Schmidt", "/business/person/company", "Google" ], [ "Eric E. Schmidt", "/business/company_shareholder/major_shareholder_of", "Google" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Google", "/business/company/major_shareholders", "Eric E. Schmidt" ], [ "Eric E. Schmidt", "/business/person/company", "Google" ], [ "Eric E. Schmidt", "/business/company_shareholder/major_shareholder_of", "Google" ] ] }, { "text": "Hany proudly recalled how he worked his way up from stock boy to grill man and then manager of a deli in Ocean Parkway , Brooklyn . ''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Ocean Parkway" ], [ "Ocean Parkway", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Ocean Parkway" ], [ "Ocean Parkway", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ] }, { "text": "General Franks had projected that the attack would begin with just a portion of the invasion force , which would grow to 250,000 troops by the time Saddam Hussein 's force was defeated and the United States began to stabilize Iraq .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/nationality", "Iraq" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/nationality", "Iraq" 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Rollins , the chief executive of Dell , is pushing his company , which is growing more slowly than the rest of the PC industry , to act quickly and aggressively to fix its problems lest they grow bigger .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Kevin B. Rollins", "/business/person/company", "Dell" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Kevin B. 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Stephen Riggio", "/business/person/company", "Barnes & Noble" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Stephen Riggio", "/business/person/company", "Barnes & Noble" ] ] }, { "text": "Yet according to Mr. Benepe , several city parks that are former burial grounds , including Washington Square Park and Madison Square Park in Manhattan , are open to people and their pets . ''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Manhattan", "/location/location/contains", "Washington Square Park" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Manhattan", "/location/location/contains", "Washington Square Park" ] ] }, { "text": "Walter Hang , the president of Toxics Targeting in Ithaca , N.Y. , a company that compiles data on contaminated sites in New York , faulted the way the state has approached the redevelopment of tainted sites . 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "John Wooden", "/people/person/place_lived", "Indiana" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [] }, { "text": "A guy like Burmaster , he was a real star in college , at Illinois , and in later life he was a high school basketball coach , in Evanston , Ill. .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Illinois", "/location/location/contains", "Evanston" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Illinois", "/location/location/contains", "Evanston" ] ] }, { "text": "Citing military sources , the Chilean daily La Nacion reported Thursday that the arms at Colonia Dignidad were buried there between 1976 and 1978 , when Chile nearly went to war with neighboring Argentina in a border dispute .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Chile", "/location/location/contains", "Colonia Dignidad" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chile", "/location/location/contains", "Colonia Dignidad" ], [ "Argentina", "/location/location/contains", "Colonia Dignidad" ] ] }, { "text": "The enclave , Colonia Dignidad , was founded in southern Chile in 1961 by Paul Schafer , a former Nazi Luftwaffe medic turned fundamentalist preacher .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Chile", "/location/location/contains", "Colonia Dignidad" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chile", "/location/location/contains", "Colonia Dignidad" ] ] }, { "text": "One of Japan 's most influential lawmakers on economic affairs in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party , the general affairs minister , Heizo Takenaka , has even threatened to rewrite the central bank law to require the bank to cooperate with the government before acting .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Heizo Takenaka", "/people/person/nationality", "Japan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Heizo Takenaka", "/people/person/nationality", "Japan" ] ] }, { "text": "We need a new overall framework for managing the economy , '' said Yoshimasa Hayashi , a Liberal Democrat member of Japan 's upper house who served on a special committee in Parliament for revitalizing the economy .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Yoshimasa Hayashi", "/people/person/nationality", "Japan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Yoshimasa Hayashi", "/people/person/nationality", "Japan" ] ] }, { "text": "Three firefighters were killed yesterday in two blazes at opposite ends of New York City -- two in a desperate plunge from an apartment in the Bronx as they tried to escape a fire that had burst through from the floor below , the other after he had become trapped in the basement of a burning house in Brooklyn .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Brooklyn" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York City", "/location/location/contains", "Brooklyn" ] ] }, { "text": "The last time three firefighters died was four months before the Sept. 11 attack , when three men perished on Father 's Day after an explosion in a burning building in Astoria , Queens .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Queens", "/location/location/contains", "Astoria" ], [ "Astoria", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Queens" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Queens", "/location/location/contains", "Astoria" ], [ "Astoria", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Queens" ] ] }, { "text": "The Brooklyn fire broke out several hours later in a two-family house at 577 Jerome Street in East New York where , fire officials said , people attending a birthday party reported smelling smoke .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "East New York" ], [ "East New York", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "East New York" ], [ "East New York", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ] ] }, { "text": "She is the daughter of Lynda and Michael B. Grauer of Nyack , N.Y. Her father is a financial consultant in New York at Ryan Beck & Company , an investment banking firm .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Nyack" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Nyack" ] ] }, { "text": "Of New York , Washington D.C. , and Geneva , Switzerland .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Switzerland", "/location/location/contains", "Geneva" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Switzerland", "/location/location/contains", "Geneva" ] ] }, { "text": "In lieu of flowers , please make a contribution to the charity of your choice , The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind , 371 East Jericho Turnpike , Smithtown , New York 11787 , or The Irving Sherwood Wright Center on Aging , 1484 First Avenue , New York 10021 .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Smithtown" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Smithtown" ] ] }, { "text": "A memorial service will be held in the Beth El chapel at Temple Emanu-El , Fifth Avenue and 65th Street , on Wednesday , October 19 at 11 A.M. MORSE -- Mildred H. Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York expresses to the family of our devoted member , Mildred H. Morse , our deepest sympathies on the occassion of her passing .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Temple Emanu-El" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Temple Emanu - El" ] ] }, { "text": "Representative Charles B. Rangel , the dean of New York 's Congressional delegation , said on Wednesday that he would leave Congress if Democrats failed to win control of the House of Representatives in the fall elections .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Charles B. Rangel", "/people/person/place_lived", "New York" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Charles B. 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Edward T. 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"/location/location/contains", "Port Chester" ] ] }, { "text": "Miguel Angel , newly arrived from Puebla , Mexico , but with those iPod wires already coming out of his ears .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Mexico", "/location/country/administrative_divisions", "Puebla" ], [ "Puebla", "/location/administrative_division/country", "Mexico" ], [ "Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Puebla" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Mexico", "/location/location/contains", "Puebla" ], [ "Puebla", "/location/administrative_division/country", "Mexico" ], [ "Mexico", "/location/country/administrative_divisions", "Puebla" ] ] }, { "text": "A Mobile Society For 15 years , Vilas Jaganath Kamkar had been taking the bus from his village in Maharashtra state to Mumbai , its capital , where he worked as a taxicab driver .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Maharashtra", "/location/location/contains", "Mumbai" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Maharashtra", "/location/location/contains", "Mumbai" ] ] }, { "text": "A Fragmented Industry In almost every doorway in the red-light district of Chilakaluripet , in Andhra Pradesh , women drape , wearing bright clothes , garish makeup and come-hither expressions that have served to lure both men and disease .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Andhra Pradesh", "/location/location/contains", "Chilakaluripet" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Andhra Pradesh", "/location/location/contains", "Chilakaluripet" ] ] }, { "text": "LEMBECK -- Rosemary H. 91 , of Delray Beach , Florida and formerly Short Hills , New Jersey , passed away May 22 , 2005 after a short illness .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New Jersey", "/location/location/contains", "Short Hills" ], [ "Florida", "/location/location/contains", "Delray Beach" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New Jersey", "/location/location/contains", "Short Hills" ], [ "Florida", "/location/location/contains", "Delray Beach" ] ] }, { "text": "Her mother was a psychotherapist in Manhattan and the clinical director of the New Hope Counseling Center in Nyack , N.Y. , and 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Israel", "/location/location/contains", "West Bank" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Israel", "/location/location/contains", "West Bank" ] ] }, { "text": "The work , to be completed by Sept. 12 and on view through Dec. 3 , and named after the noted screenwriter -LRB- '' Chinatown '' -RRB- , is a variation on Ms. Morris 's recent painting '' Robert Towne -LRB- Los Angeles -RRB- . ''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Robert Towne", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Los Angeles" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chinatown", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Los Angeles" ], [ "Los Angeles", "/location/location/contains", "Chinatown" ] ] }, { "text": "This is the story of another long slide into summertime at Ruby 's Old Thyme Bar and Grill , Coney Island , Brooklyn , New York City , U.S.A. 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rankings -LRB- Paris , New York , Sydney and Barcelona finish 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 -RRB- matter less than the strong , definitive opinions -LRB- Aleppo 's souk '' is the most vibrant and untouristy in the entire Middle East '' and Shere Khan is the '' best Indian restaurant on Curry Mile '' in Manchester , England -RRB- .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "England", "/location/location/contains", "Manchester" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "England", "/location/location/contains", "Manchester" ] ] }, { "text": "Born in Hillside , NJ , August 20 , 1921 , Mr. Straetz was raised in Chicago , IL , and attended the University of Chicago , where he earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "University of Chicago" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "University of Chicago" ] ] }, { "text": "A6 New Premier of Peru Sworn In The president of Peru , Alejandro Toledo , swore in a new cabinet led by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski , a Wall 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Baker ; Laura D'Andrea Tyson , dean of the business school at the University of California , Berkeley , and a former economic adviser to President Clinton ; Lee Raymond , former chief executive of the Exxon Mobil Corporation ; and John J. DeGioia , the president of Georgetown University , to serve as an advisory board .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "John J. DeGioia", "/business/person/company", "Georgetown University" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "John J. 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She was born on November 2 , 1918 in Brooklyn , daughter of the late Thomas Vincent and Margaret Lillian .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ] }, { "text": "The Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11:00 am in Saint Patrick 's Church , Bay Ridge , Brooklyn .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ] }, { "text": "There will be a viewing at McLaughlin 's Funeral Home , Bay Ridge , Brooklyn , on Wednesday , November 8 , 2006 at 9:00 am .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Bay Ridge", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Brooklyn" ], [ "Brooklyn", "/location/location/contains", "Bay Ridge" ] ] }, { "text": "Hamas gives Israel more freedom in the West Bank , creating borders , thickening settlements , or dismantling them , as it pleases .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Israel", "/location/location/contains", "West Bank" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Israel", "/location/location/contains", "West Bank" ] ] }, { "text": "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel tried to redefine the bargain as '' a state for security '' -- an independent Palestinian state in return for dismantling all armed '' terrorist '' groups , including Hamas , Islamic Jihad and Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Ariel Sharon", "/people/person/nationality", "Israel" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Ariel Sharon", "/people/person/nationality", "Israel" ] ] }, { "text": "As the troubles intensified in Darfur , Sudan 's leaders in Khartoum , the capital , could hardly afford to fight another escalating rebellion . 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Eritrea", "/location/location/contains", "Asmara" ], [ "Eritrea", "/location/country/capital", "Asmara" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Eritrea", "/location/location/contains", "Asmara" ], [ "Eritrea", "/location/country/capital", "Asmara" ] ] }, { "text": "The Beja also pushed for a bigger cut of Sudan 's growing wealth , which is driven by oil exports , and asked for one dollar for every barrel shipped from Port Sudan , which would amount to around $ 150 million each year .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Sudan", "/location/location/contains", "Port Sudan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Sudan", "/location/location/contains", "Port Sudan" ] ] }, { "text": "Representative Steve Buyer , Republican of Indiana , chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs , indicated he was open to the ideas .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Steve Buyer", "/people/person/place_lived", "Indiana" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Steve Buyer", "/people/person/place_lived", "Indiana" ] ] }, { "text": "Born in Philadelphia , PA , he graduated first in his class from Temple University and received his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Philadelphia", "/location/location/contains", "Temple University" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Philadelphia", "/location/location/contains", "Temple University" ] ] }, { "text": "Like Mr. Valli , Mr. Young was of Italian descent ; his mother , who died when he was 2 , hailed from Whitestone , Queens , a largely Irish and Italian neighborhood .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Whitestone", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Queens" ], [ "Queens", "/location/location/contains", "Whitestone" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Whitestone", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Queens" ], [ "Queens", "/location/location/contains", "Whitestone" ] ] }, { "text": "Kenneth P. 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The bridegroom 's mother is a landscape designer and a trustee of the John Jay Homestead in Katonah , N.Y. , and of Westmoreland Sanctuary , a nature preserve in Bedford Corners , N.Y. His father retired as a partner in Milbank , Tweed , Hadley & McCloy , the New York law firm .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Bedford Corners" ], [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Katonah" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "New York", "/location/location/contains", "Katonah" ] ] }, { "text": "Gov. 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Cherif Bassiouni , a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago who was the human rights commission 's independent expert for Afghanistan , said Friday that he had received an e-mail message from a commission official in Geneva a week ago telling him his mandate had expired .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "DePaul University" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Chicago", "/location/location/contains", "DePaul University" ] ] }, { "text": "BUSINESS DAY , PAGE C1 Protest Prevents Fox Speech Lawmakers protesting election results blocked President Vicente Fox of Mexico from delivering his state of the union address to them .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Vicente Fox", "/business/person/company", "Mexico" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Vicente Fox", "/business/person/company", "Mexico" ] ] }, { "text": "The Foreign Ministry spokesman , Navtej Sarna , said : '' India is working with the international community , including with the U.S. , as a partner against proliferation .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Navtej Sarna", "/people/person/nationality", "India" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Navtej Sarna", "/people/person/nationality", "India" ] ] }, { "text": "AISHA ADAM MOUSSA , of Darfur , Sudan .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Darfur", "/location/administrative_division/country", "Sudan" ], [ "Sudan", "/location/location/contains", "Darfur" ], [ "Sudan", "/location/country/administrative_divisions", "Darfur" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Darfur", "/location/administrative_division/country", "Sudan" ], [ "Sudan", "/location/location/contains", "Darfur" ], [ "Sudan", "/location/country/administrative_divisions", "Darfur" ] ] }, { "text": "He said most of those under 21 found with alcohol were students at Quinnipiac University in nearby Hamden .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Hamden", "/location/location/contains", "Quinnipiac University" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Hamden", "/location/location/contains", "Quinnipiac University" ] ] }, { "text": "Hadley Arkes , a professor at Amherst College and a leading social conservative legal thinker , called the letter delicious because of its elucidation of potential tensions among conservative views .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Hadley Arkes", "/business/person/company", "Amherst College" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Hadley Arkes", "/business/person/company", "Amherst College" ] ] }, { "text": "The family requests that memorials be given to the Minnesota Medical Foundation , P.O. 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Virginia Fields ; the City Council speaker , Gifford Miller ; and United States Representative Anthony D. Weiner .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Gifford Miller", "/people/person/place_lived", "Manhattan" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Gifford Miller", "/people/person/place_lived", "Manhattan" ] ] }, { "text": "Former United States Senator Bob Kerrey , the president of the New School University and a Democratic candidate for president in 1992 , said yesterday that he was considering a run for mayor of New York City , declaring that Michael R. 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''", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "John McCain", "/people/person/place_lived", "Arizona" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "John McCain", "/people/person/place_lived", "Arizona" ] ] }, { "text": "Mr. Assal , 44 , is a Sunni Arab , from the community that ruled Iraq for centuries until the downfall of Saddam Hussein , and he does his business in a district , Ghazaliya , that American troops consider among the most dangerous in Baghdad .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Iraq" ], [ "Iraq", "/location/location/contains", "Baghdad" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/nationality", "Iraq" ], [ "Iraq", "/location/country/capital", "Baghdad" ], [ "Ghazaliya", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Baghdad" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Iraq", "/location/location/contains", "Baghdad" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/deceased_person/place_of_death", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/place_of_birth", "Iraq" ], [ "Saddam Hussein", "/people/person/nationality", "Iraq" ], [ "Iraq", "/location/country/capital", "Baghdad" ], [ "Ghazaliya", "/location/neighborhood/neighborhood_of", "Baghdad" ] ] }, { "text": "We have n't seen anything change '' since Iraq resumed sovereignty , said Muhammad al-Nuaimi , a 34-year-old barber standing in his empty shop in Adhamiya , a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood in northern Baghdad that has been the site of frequent fighting .", "gold_spo_list": [ [ "Iraq", "/location/location/contains", "Baghdad" ], [ "Iraq", "/location/country/capital", "Baghdad" ] ], "pred_spo_list": [ [ "Iraq", "/location/country/capital", "Baghdad" ], [ "Iraq", "/location/location/contains", "Baghdad" ] ] }, { "text": "When Shaker Assal was approached in his butcher 's shop on Tuesday and asked what he thought about life in Iraq a year after it resumed formal sovereignty , he responded with a blast of invective as heated as the sunbaked sidewalks in his Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliya . 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