masaki-sakata/wikidata_descriptions

Wikidata Descriptions Dataset

wikidata_descriptions pairs English Wikipedia article titles (wiki_title) and their Wikidata IDs (qid) with the English "description" available in Wikidata.
The corpus contains 26 205 entities. Wikidata descriptions are short, one-line summaries that concisely state what an entity is.
They can be used as lightweight contextual information in entity linking, search, question answering, knowledge-graph completion and many other NLP / IR tasks.

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Dataset Structure

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("masaki-sakata/wikidata_descriptions", split="en")
print(ds)
# Dataset({
#   features: ['wiki_title', 'qid', 'description'],
#   num_rows: 26205
# })

Field description:

column	type	description
wiki_title	str	Title of the corresponding English Wikipedia article
qid	str	Wikidata identifier, e.g. Q7156
description	str	English one-line description provided by Wikidata (CC-0)

Example:

{
    "wiki_title": "Michael Jordan",
    "qid": "Q41421",
    "description": "American basketball player and businessman (born 1963)"
}

Quick Usage Example

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("masaki-sakata/wikidata_descriptions", split="en")
# Retrieve the first 3 entities
for record in ds.select(range(3)):
    print(record)

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Source & Construction

1. Seed list
   masaki-sakata/entity_popularity (English split) provides wiki_title and qid.
2. Enrichment
   For every qid, we queried the Wikidata API (wbgetentities, language = en) and kept the English description if present.
3. Filtering
   Rows with empty or missing descriptions were dropped, resulting in 26 205 items.
4. License
   All descriptions originate from Wikidata and are released under CC-0.
   The dataset as a whole is distributed under the MIT License.

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