TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a context, a subject, a relation, and many options. Based on the context, from the options select the object entity that has the given relation with the subject. Answer with text (not indexes).
PROBLEM: Context: The (Spanish and Portuguese for the "reconquest") is the period of history of the Iberian Peninsula spanning approximately 770 years between the Islamic conquest of Hispania in 710 and the fall of the last Islamic state in Iberia at Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492. The " ended just before the European discovery of the Americasthe "New World"which ushered in the era of the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires., Al-Andalus (trans.   Berber: "Andalus"), also known as Muslim Spain or Islamic Iberia, was a medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal. At its greatest geographical extent in the eighth century, southern FranceSeptimaniawas briefly under its control. The name more generally describes parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Muslims (given the generic name of Moors) at various times between 711 and 1492, though the boundaries changed constantly as the Christian Reconquista progressed., Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, with two large archipelagos, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast, two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only European country to have a border with an African country (Morocco) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5% of its population, mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla., A Muslim is someone who follows or practises Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion. Muslims consider the Quran (Koran), their holy book, to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. They also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad ("sunnah ") as recorded in traditional accounts ("hadith"). "Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "one who submits (to God)"., Ibn al - Abbar , in full Abu Abd Allah Muhammad Ibn al - Abbar ( 1199 -- 1260 ) was a well - known poet , diplomat , theologian and scholar from al - Andalus and perhaps the most famous man of letters produced by the city of Valencia during the Middle Ages . Ibn al - Abbar was born in Valencia , and began his official career as a secretary to the Muslim governor of the Emirate of Balansiya . Well - known is the qasida which he wrote as ambassador of the Hafsid governor of Valencia to the Tunisian sultan asking for help against the forces of king James and the elegy he wrote after the fall of the city ( September 1238 ) . He then settled in Tunisia . Later he fell in disgrace and was burnt at the stake because of his writings . He died in Béjaïa . His works that remain ( La Tunica recamada and Complemento al libro del regalo ) are of great importance for the understanding of the history and the culture of his period ., Portugal (Portuguese: ), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: ), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe. To the west and south it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and north by Spain. The PortugalSpain border is long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union. The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments., The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia , is located in the southwest corner of Europe. The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. It also includes Andorra and a small part of France along the peninsula's northeastern edge, as well as Gibraltar on its south coast, a small peninsula which forms an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest European peninsula, after the Scandinavian., Septimania (  ) was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigoths in 462, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II. Under the Visigoths it was known as simply Gallia or Narbonensis. It corresponded roughly with the modern French region of Languedoc-Roussillon. It passed briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the eighth century before its conquest by the Franks, who by the end of the ninth century termed it Gothia or the Gothic March ("Marca Gothica")., Subject: ibn al-abbar, Relation: languages_spoken_or_written, Options: (A) arabic (B) french (C) portugal (D) portuguese (E) spain (F) spanish

SOLUTION: arabic

PROBLEM: Context: Asset management, broadly defined, refers to any system that monitors and maintains things of value to an entity or group. It may apply to both tangible assets such as buildings and to intangible assets such as human capital, intellectual property, and goodwill and financial assets. Asset management is a systematic process of deploying, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets cost-effectively., Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments. It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return. Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance., In finance, private equity is a type of equity (finance) and one of the asset classes consisting of equity securities and debt in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange., Skåne County, sometimes referred to as "Scania County" in English, is the southernmost county or "län", of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Skåne. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö. The headquarters of Skåne Regional Council is the town of Kristianstad., Eslöv Municipality ("Eslövs kommun") is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden, situated in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Eslöv., Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas., A financier is a person who makes their living from investments, typically involving large sums of money and usually involving private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate finance, investment banking, or large-scale asset management. The term is French, and derives from "finance" or "payment"., Eslöv is a town and the seat of Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 17,748 inhabitants in 2010., An investment bank is typically a private company that provides various financial-related and other services to individuals, corporations, and governments such as raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making, trading of derivatives and equity securities, and FICC services (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities)., Nils Wilhelm Erik Penser ( born August 22 , 1942 , in Eslöv , Skåne ) is a Swedish financier and businessman . After having studied law at Lund University , Erik Penser commenced a career as a stockbroker at Bankirfirman Langenskiöld , which later became Carnegie Investment Bank . Together with Thomas Fischer he worked intensively to develop the firm 's business , laying the foundation for his private wealth . Penser 's strategy was risky ; he bought shares , used them as collateral and borrowed even more money to leverage his holdings . Eventually he gained the controlling interest of several large companies on the Stockholm Stock Exchange . During the 1980s Penser was one of Sweden 's most influential businessmen . Through his holding company , Yggdrasil , he controlled both Nobel Industrier and Finans AB Gamlestaden . His massive financial leverage and the harsh business environment experienced during the Swedish banking crisis in 1990 - 1994 forced Penser to cease control of his holdings , which were sold to Nordbanken ( which became Nordea ) for the symbolic sum of SEK 1 each . At a press conference Björn Wahlström , the chairman of Nordbanken , said that Erik Penser was ' destitute and finished as a businessman ' . The transaction resulted in a prolonged legal dispute between Penser and Nordbanken . In 1992 Penser regained control of Yggdrasil , the consideration was once again SEK 1 . The vice Chairman of Nordbanken , Jacob Palmstierna , admitted that Penser had been under extreme pressure when he was forced to sign the agreement with Nordbanken . Since then Penser has rebuilt an estimated net worth of SEK 1 billion , with interests in both Sweden and abroad . In Sweden , his main holdings includes Erik Penser Bankaktiebolag , with activities in corporate finance , trading , research and private wealth management and Pensum , an insurance and pension advisory firm . Erik Penser resides , since 1976 , in Compton Beauchamp , England . Erik Penser is known as a distinguished collector , collecting - amongst many objects - old share certificates , film posters , magazines and bank notes ., A leveraged buyout (LBO) is a financial transaction in which a company is purchased with a combination of equity and debt, such that the company's cash flow is the collateral used to secure and repay the borrowed money. The use of debt, which has a lower cost of capital than equity, serves to reduce the overall cost of financing the acquisition. This reduced cost of financing allows greater gains to accrue to the equity, and, as a result, the debt serves as a lever to increase the returns to the equity., Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations or their operating units are transferred or combined. As an aspect of strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow, shrink, change the nature of their business or competitive position., Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equityan ownership stakein the companies they invest in. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), social media or biotechnology., Subject: erik penser, Relation: place_of_birth, Options: (A) blekinge (B) council (C) denmark (D) eslöv (E) eslöv municipality (F) malmö (G) norway (H) of (I) scania (J) skåne county (K) sweden (L) time

SOLUTION: scania

PROBLEM: Context: Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al - Hakim ( 1939 - 29 August 2003 ; Arabic :      ) , also known as Shaheed al - Mehraab , was a senior Iraqi Shia cleric and the leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq . He was assassinated in a bomb attack in Najaf in 2003 ., Najaf (BGN: "An Najaf") is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (roughly 100 miles) south of Baghdad. Its estimated population in 2013 was 1,000,000 people. It is the capital of Najaf Governorate. It is widely considered the third holiest city of Shia Islam, the Shia worlds spiritual capital and the center of Shi'a political power in Iraq., Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, , is approximately 7.216.040 making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo, Egypt), and the second largest city in Western Asia (after Tehran, Iran)., Iraq (, or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of Iraq ('; ') is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds; others include Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians, and Kawliya. Around 95% of the country's 36 million citizens are Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan, Yezidism, and Mandeanism also present. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish., Shia ("Shah", from "Shatu Al", followers of Ali) is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam). Shia Islam primarily contrasts with Sunni Islam, whose adherents believe that Muhammad did not appoint a successor. Instead they consider Abu Bakr (who was appointed Caliph through a Shura, i.e. consensus) to be the correct Caliph., Najaf Governorate ("An Najaf") (or Najaf Province) is a governorate in central and southern Iraq. The capital is the city of Najaf. The other major city is Al Kufah. Both cities are holy to Shia Muslims, who form the majority of the population. Prior to 1976 it was part of the Karbala Governorate., Islam (' ;) is a religion articulated by the Quran, a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God ('), and, for the vast majority of adherents, the teachings and normative example (called the "sunnah", composed of accounts called "hadith") of Muhammad (5708 June 632 CE). It is the world's second-largest religion and the fastest-growing major religion in the world, with over 1.7 billion followers or 23% of the global population, known as Muslims. Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion that upholds that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God. Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet of God., Subject: mohammad baqir al-hakim, Relation: place_of_birth, Options: (A) an najaf (B) baghdad (C) center (D) iraq (E) jordan (F) of (G) republic (H) southeast (I) syria (J) tehran (K) turkey

SOLUTION:
an najaf