Many scholars favor locating Yamataikoku in the Kinai/Kinki area, but its site remains unresolved.
Claim:
Yamataikoku was located in Japan's Kinki region.
SOME BS
History
What really happened — historical claims measured against the sources.
Yogurt’s commercial establishment and wider marketing in Colombia occurred during the 20th century.
Claim:
Yogurt was first introduced in Colombia in the 20th century.
MOSTLY BS
In Apology 21a–21b, Socrates reports the Delphic oracle said none was wiser.
Claim:
In Plato's dialogue "Apology", Socrates says that the Delphic Oracle declared that no one was wiser than Socrates.
NOT BS
Shinto is Japan’s indigenous tradition rooted in ancient kami veneration of nature.
Claim:
Shinto is Japan's indigenous religion that originated from ancient Japanese folk beliefs in kami, which are spirits or sacred powers believed to inhabit natural phenomena such as mountains, rivers, trees, the sun, and animals.
HARDLY BS
Confucius is traditionally dated to 551–479 BCE during Eastern Zhou.
Claim:
Confucius lived during the Eastern Zhou dynasty in ancient China and is traditionally dated to 551–479 BCE.
NOT BS
Bartolomeu Dias’s birth is generally dated circa 1450, with birthplace uncertain.
Claim:
Bartolomeu Dias was born in 1450 in Faro, Portugal.
MOSTLY BS
Assisi’s basilica restoration involved art historians, conservators, engineers and digital imaging specialists.
Claim:
The restoration of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi involved an interdisciplinary team that included art historians, conservators, engineers, and computer scientists.
HARDLY BS
In 1934, Cavendish experiments intentionally achieved and identified deuterium–deuterium fusion.
Claim:
In 1934, the first targeted nuclear fusion in a laboratory was achieved via a deuterium–deuterium fusion reaction.
HARDLY BS
The Decameron often portrays women as clever, articulate, and resourceful.
Claim:
In Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, women are portrayed as intelligent and resourceful rather than weak or dependent.
HARDLY BS
Bronwyn Oliver’s mature sculptures were primarily intricate, bent and joined copper wire forms.
Claim:
Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver mainly used copper and bronze wire, which she bent, twisted, wove, and soldered to form complex three-dimensional shapes.
HARDLY BS
Bronwyn Oliver’s Globe is a hollow spherical lattice of brazed copper-alloy wire.
Claim:
Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver created a sculpture titled "Globe" that is a rounded, hollow sphere made from copper and bronze wire using weaving and soldering techniques.
HARDLY BS
Arguedas criticized modernization’s threat to Andean and Indigenous cultural identity.
Claim:
In the thesis of the essay titled "La modernización y la pérdida de identidad cultural," José María Arguedas argues that a society guided by ambition can cause loss of identity and deterioration of Indigenous cultures.
MOSTLY BS
No reliable primary-text evidence shows Wiseman wrote that sentence.
Claim:
In the book "Romulus and Remus: The Myth of Rome's Origins", T. P. Wiseman wrote the sentence: "The legend as a whole encapsulates Rome’s ideas of itself, its origins and moral values."
MOSTLY BS
Adam Smith endorsed limited government to support markets, justice, defense, and public works.
Claim:
Adam Smith argued that markets operate more efficiently when there is no government intervention.
MOSTLY BS
Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea on October 29, 2018.
Claim:
Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea in October 2018.
NOT BS
No reliable record shows Freud ever said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Claim:
Sigmund Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
TOTAL BS
Existing universities like Bologna and Oxford were founded in the late 11th century.
Claim:
The Aztec Empire greatly predates any existing universities.
TOTAL BS
Teaching at Oxford dates to 1096, predating the Aztec Empire’s 1325 founding.
Claim:
Oxford University existed before the Aztec Empire.
NOT BS
Medieval scholars generally taught and wrote that Earth is spherical.
Claim:
During the Middle Ages, scholars thought the Earth was round.
NOT BS
In many cultures, children place lost teeth under pillows for the Tooth Fairy.
Claim:
The tooth fairy collects baby teeth placed under a pillow.
HARDLY BS
No checks match that verdict.