---
language:
- en
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- <1K
task_categories:
- feature-extraction
- sentence-similarity
pretty_name: ms-marco-mini
tags:
- sentence-transformers
- colbert
- lightonai
dataset_info:
- config_name: triplet
  features:
  - name: query
    dtype: string
  - name: positive
    dtype: string
  - name: negative
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 30
configs:
- config_name: triplet
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: triplet/train-*
---

# ms-marco-mini

This dataset gathers 30 triplets [MS MARCO](https://microsoft.github.io/msmarco/) to provide an example of triplet-based dataset formatting.

#### `triplet` subset

* Columns: "query", "positive", "negative"
* Column types: `str`, `str`, `str`
* Examples:
    ```python
    {
      "query": "what are the liberal arts?",
      "positive": 'liberal arts. 1. the academic course of instruction at a college intended to provide general knowledge and comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.',
      "negative": 'The New York State Education Department requires 60 Liberal Arts credits in a Bachelor of Science program and 90 Liberal Arts credits in a Bachelor of Arts program. In the list of course descriptions, courses which are liberal arts for all students are identified by (Liberal Arts) after the course number.'
    }
    ```