Some attepts to find hypernyms for employee and contractor. For http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/296248. This is available under CC0

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    "from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn\n",
    "wn.synset(\"television_program.n.01\").lowest_common_hypernyms(wn.synset(\"movie.n.01\"))\n",
    "\n",
    "#Or equivalently (because NLTK integrates Morphy):\n",
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       "'someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money'"
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       "'a person who works at a specific occupation'"
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       "'an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits'"
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    "#sole-proprietorship, corporation\n",
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       "'a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state'"
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       "'a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples'"
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       "[Synset('party.n.05')]"
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