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library_of_congress

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10034467	"\nBonk - / ?S 3 \n\n\n\nA \n\nGENERAL HISTORY \n\nOF THE \n\nUOTTED STATES OF AMERICA; \n\nFROM THE(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	2024-05-14T16:22:36.187973	{"license":"Public Domain","title":"A general history of the United States of America;","author":"Tr(...TRUNCATED)
15004026	"\n\nINAUGURATION \n\nOP \n\nJOHN GRIER HIBBEN \nPRESIDENT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY \n\nSATURDAY, MAY(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	2024-05-14T16:22:36.629520	{"license":"Public Domain","title":"Inauguration of John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton Univer(...TRUNCATED)
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07028265	"\n\n\n\n\n\nBREAD FOR THE MILLION! \n\n\n\nA BRIEF EXPOSITION \n\n\n\nm PERRY & FITZGERALD'S PATENT(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	2024-05-14T16:22:38.111811	{"license":"Public Domain","title":"Bread for the million!","author":"Perry & Fitzgerald","year":186(...TRUNCATED)
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42027286	"iK5L6 \nI81G \n\n\n\n[ ^^xxi:.-ur Dwui^— xiuw lu ••MAKK-UF.\" A practical guide fo. \nmateurs(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	2024-05-14T16:22:39.354352	{"license":"Public Domain","title":"The love-chase. A comedy in five acts.","author":"Knowles, James(...TRUNCATED)

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Library of Congress

Description

The Library of Congress (LoC) curates a collection of public domain books called "Selected Digitized Books". We have downloaded over 130,000 English-language books from this public domain collection as OCR plain text files using the LoC APIs.

Dataset Statistics

Documents	UTF-8 GB
135,500	47.8

License Issues

While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.

Other Versions

This is the "raw" version of the Library of Congress dataset. If you are looking for the filtered version used to train Comma v0.1, you can find it here.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@article{kandpal2025common,
  title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
  author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben  and Elie Bakouch and John David  and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025}
}

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Number of rows (First 5GB):

14,075

Estimated number of rows:

134,570

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Common Pile v0.1 Raw Data

Collection

8TB of public domain and openly licensed text • 30 items • Updated 1 day ago • 5