Datasets:
metadata
dataset_info:
features:
- name: wiki_title
dtype: string
- name: qid
dtype: string
- name: description
dtype: string
splits:
- name: en
num_bytes: 1938197
num_examples: 26205
download_size: 1256160
dataset_size: 1938197
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: en
path: data/en-*
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- Wikidata
- Wikipedia
- Description
- Entity
- QID
- Knowledge
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.
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)
Source & Construction
- Seed list
masaki-sakata/entity_popularity
(English split) provideswiki_title
andqid
. - Enrichment
For everyqid
, we queried the Wikidata API (wbgetentities
, language =en
) and kept the English description if present. - Filtering
Rows with empty or missing descriptions were dropped, resulting in 26 205 items. - License
All descriptions originate from Wikidata and are released under CC-0.
The dataset as a whole is distributed under the MIT License.