---
configs:
- config_name: en
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/en/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/en/test.parquet"
- config_name: fr
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/fr/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/fr/test.parquet"
- config_name: es
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/es/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/es/test.parquet"
- config_name: de
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/de/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/de/test.parquet"
- config_name: it
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/it/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/it/test.parquet"
- config_name: ru
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/ru/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/ru/test.parquet"  
- config_name: pl
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/pl/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/pl/test.parquet"  
- config_name: pt
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: "data/pt/train.parquet"
  - split: test
    path: "data/pt/test.parquet"
---
WikiNER is a multilingual silver-standard annotated NER dataset. It consists in a late-2010 snapshot of Wikipedia in nine languages. Hyperlinks referring to persons, locations or organizations were automatically annotated.
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/61e98283b0ea9f3bf6bedd5e/9w3QFsP_TB8K7oncKspOS.png)
```
@Article{nothman2012:artint:wikiner,
  author = {Joel Nothman and Nicky Ringland and Will Radford and Tara Murphy and James R. Curran},
  title = {Learning multilingual named entity recognition from {Wikipedia}},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  volume = {194},
  pages = {151--175},
  year = {2012},
  doi = {10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.006},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2012.03.006}
}
```