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| -Information needs: | Information about the 2014 Tour de France and Vincenzo Nibali. | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | Tour de France Nibali | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | The 2014 Tour de France was the 101st edition of the Tour de France, it is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily | ||
| held in France. It started on 5 July in Leeds, United Kingdom, and concluded on 27 July in Paris, France. The Italian cyclist | |||
| Vincenzo Nibali won the race by more than seven minutes. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the 2014 FIFA World Cup. | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | World Cup | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football | ||
| teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. It was the second time that Brazil staged the | |||
| competition, and the fifth time in South America. In the final Germany national football team defeated Argentina in extra time, | |||
| with the only goal being scored by Mario Gštze. Lionel Messi won Golden Ball award for best player of World Cup. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Germany national football team and the Brazil national football team in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | Germany Brazil | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | The Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 in Belo Horizonte, was the first semi-final match of the | ||
| 2014 FIFA World Cup. Brazil scored a goal in the last minute, ending the match with the score 7–1. Germany's Toni Kroos was | |||
| selected Man of the Match. Joachim Lšw is the coach of the German national football team and led the team to win the 2014 | |||
| World Cup in Brazil. Luiz Felipe Scolari was the coach of the Brazil national football team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Miroslav Klose beyond Ronaldo becoming the top goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup . | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | Klose | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | Miroslav Josef Klose is a German professional football player and best known for his performances in the German national | ||
| team. He scored twice at the 2014 World Cup, which put him ahead of Ronaldo in the all-time list with 16 goals. He is the top | |||
| goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup, having scored five goals in his debut World Cup in 2002 and winning the Golden | |||
| Boot at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Kobe Bryant replacing Michael Jordan becoming the 3rd place of the List of NBA career scoring leader. | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | Kobe | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/12 | ||
| -Description: | Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball | ||
| Association. On December 5th 2014 Bryant became the youngest player in league history to score 30,000 points, listing | |||
| the 3rd place of List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders after Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and | |||
| Karl Malone, replaced Michael Jordan. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Super Bowl XLIX. | ||
| -Domain: | Sport | ||
| -Keyword query: | Super Bowl | ||
| -Date range: | 2015/01 | ||
| -Description: | Super Bowl XLIX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League for the | ||
| 2014 season. The American Football Conference champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Conference | |||
| champion Seattle Seahawks, to earn their fourth Super Bowl title. The game was played on February 1, 2015, at University | |||
| of Phoenix Stadium. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about George Clooney's wedding. | ||
| -Domain: | Entertaiment | ||
| -Keyword query: | Clooney | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/09 | ||
| -Description: | George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and activist. George Clooney and his fiancŽe | ||
| Amal Alamuddin exchanged wedding vows at Aman hotel in Venice, Italy. He was last married to actress Talia Balsam. Celebrity | |||
| guests including Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Cindy Crawford joined couple in Italy for the ceremony. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the film about Kim Jong-un distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment . | ||
| -Domain: | Entertaiment | ||
| -Keyword query: | Sony Kim Jong-un | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/12 | ||
| -Description: | The Interview is a 2014 American political satire comedy film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film stars | ||
| Rogen and James Franco as journalists who set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whom Randall Park | |||
| played as, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. In November 2014, the computer systems of parent company | |||
| Sony Pictures Entertainment were hacked by the "Guardians of Peace", a group in North Korea. The group also threatened | |||
| terrorist attacks against cinemas that showed the film. In December 2014, Sony release it for online rental and purchase a | |||
| limited release at select cinemas. | |||
| 9 | |||
| -Information needs: | Information about the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. | ||
| -Domain: | Entertaiment | ||
| -Keyword query: | Golden Globe Award | ||
| -Date range: | 2015/01 | ||
| -Description: | The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2014, was broadcast live from the | ||
| Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2015. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the | |||
| Hollywood Foreign Press Association. George Clooney received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Tina Fey | |||
| and Amy Poehler were the co-hosts for the third consecutive and final time. The Affair, Birdman, Boyhood, Fargo, The | |||
| Theory of Everything, and Transparent were among the films and television shows that received multiple awards. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the film, in which Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen Hawking. | ||
| -Domain: | Entertaiment | ||
| -Keyword query: | Eddie Redmayne Hawking | ||
| -Date range: | 2015/01 | ||
| -Description: | Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything. Felicity Jones played as his wife. This film | ||
| was directed by James Marsh. Redmayne's performance as Stephen Hawking was widely praised. The film received four | |||
| Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne. | |||
| 11 | |||
| -Information needs: | Information about Alibaba Group making an IPO in the United States. | ||
| -Domain: | Business | ||
| -Keyword query: | Alibaba | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/09 | ||
| -Description: | Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese E-Commerce company that provides sales services via web portals. The group | ||
| began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com. In September 2014, the company made an IPO in the | |||
| United States with Reuters Instrument Code "BABA.N". The pricing of the IPO initially raised US$21.8 billion, which later | |||
| increased to US$25 billion, making it the largest IPO in history. On 19 September 2014, Alibaba's shares (BABA) began | |||
| trading on the NYSE. SoftBank and Yahoo! Inc. are as part of its strategic partnership. | |||
| 12 | |||
| -Information needs: | Information about the large online shopping day Cyber Monday of Amazon.com. | ||
| -Domain: | Business | ||
| -Keyword query: | Cyber Monday Amazon | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/11 | ||
| -Description: | Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The term "Cyber | ||
| Monday" was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. Cyber Monday has become an international | |||
| marketing term used by online retailers across the world. As of 2014, amazon.de continues to advertise Cyber Monday and | |||
| has extended it to an 8-day period ("Cyber Monday week") beginning on the Monday before Thanksgiving. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Singles Day, which becomes a large online shopping day in China. | ||
| -Domain: | Business | ||
| -Keyword query: | Singles Day Jack Ma | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/11 | ||
| -Description: | Singles' Day is an entertaining festival widespread among young Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud | ||
| of being single. The date November 11th is chosen because the number "1" resembles an individual that is alone. This festival | |||
| has gradually become one of the largest online shopping days in the world, with sales in Alibaba's sites Tmall and Taobao, | |||
| by the effort of Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine. | ||
| -Domain: | Emergencies | ||
| -Keyword query: | Malaysia Airlines | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being | ||
| shot down. The plane was mistakenly shot down by pro-Russian insurgents using a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the | |||
| territory which they controlled. The Boeing 777 airliner lost contact about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and crashed | |||
| near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border. All 283 passengers and 15 crew on board were killed. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the aviation accidents of Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 MD-80 airplane. | ||
| -Domain: | Emergencies | ||
| -Keyword query: | MD-80 | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/07 | ||
| -Description: | Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 was a scheduled flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, | ||
| near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair | |||
| for Air AlgŽrie, departed from Ouagadougou Airport, was scheduled to land at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, and | |||
| disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. There were no survivors. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8051 crashed into the Java Sea. | ||
| -Domain: | Emergencies | ||
| -Keyword query: | Indonesia Java | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/12 | ||
| -Description: | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, operated by Indonesia AirAsia. | ||
| On 28 December 2014, an Airbus A320 was scheduled to depart Juanda International Airport and arrive at Singapore Changi | |||
| Airport. It lost contact with the Jakarta Area Control Centre and crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather. Search and | |||
| rescue operations were activated by the Indonesia National Search and Rescue Agency. All 155 passengers and seven | |||
| crew on board were killed. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the Charlie Hebdo shooting. | ||
| -Domain: | Emergencies | ||
| -Keyword query: | Charlie Hebdo | ||
| -Date range: | 2015/01 | ||
| -Description: | On 7 January 2015 two gunmen forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in | ||
| Paris. They killed 12 people and injured 11 others, including Cube, Georges Wolinski, many cartoonists and a French | |||
| National Police officer. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in | |||
| Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Charlie Hebdo had attracted attention for its controversial depictions of | |||
| Muhammad. Hatred for Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, which made jokes about Islamic leaders as well as Muhammad, is | |||
| considered to be the principal motive for the massacre. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend. | ||
| -Domain: | Society | ||
| -Keyword query: | Pistorius | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/09 | ||
| -Description: | Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprint runner with nickname ÒBlade RunnerÓ and convicted murderer. Pistorius fatally shot | ||
| his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide and received a five-year | |||
| prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended prison sentence for a separate reckless | |||
| endangerment conviction. Pistorius was the first athlete to compete at the Paralympic games and Olympic games, where he | |||
| mainly entered the men's 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay races. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Tim Cook announced coming out of the closet in a magazine. | ||
| -Domain: | Society | ||
| -Keyword query: | Tim Cook | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/10 | ||
| -Description: | Tim Cook is an American business executive, and is the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., succeeded Steve Jobs. He is First | ||
| Fortune 500 to Come Out. In October 2014, the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek published a first-person story of Tim Cook | |||
| Òproud to be gayÓ. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. | ||
| -Domain: | Science | ||
| -Keyword query: | Shuji Nakamura Nobel Prize | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/10 | ||
| -Description: | Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor | ||
| technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara | |||
| (UCSB). Nakamura is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. He has also | |||
| worked on green LEDs, and is responsible for creating the white LED and blue laser diodes used in Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. | |||
| Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about the spacecraft Rosetta first successful landing on a comet. | ||
| -Domain: | Science | ||
| -Keyword query: | Rosetta | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/11 | ||
| -Description: | Rosetta is a space probe built by the European Space Agency. On 12 November, the lander module Philae performed the | ||
| first successful landing on a comet and a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). The probe is named | |||
| after the Rosetta Stone, and the lander is named after the Philae obelisk. The spacecraft is controlled from the European | |||
| Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. | |||
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| -Information needs: | Information about Donald Tusk becoming the President of the European Council. | ||
| -Domain: | Politics | ||
| -Keyword query: | Donald Tusk | ||
| -Date range: | 2014/12 | ||
| -Description: | Donald Tusk is a Polish politician and historian who succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council | ||
| since 1 December 2014. Previously he was Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014, having also been co-founder and | |||
| chairman of the Civic Platform party. He received strong support from a number of high profile European leaders, particularly | |||
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel. | |||