metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - fr
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
task_ids:
  - entity-linking-classification
paperswithcode_id: diderot_1751_wd
tags:
  - named-entity-linking

Dataset Card for "diderot_1751_wd"

Diderot’s Encyclopédie is a reference work from XVIIIth century in Europe that aimed at collecting the knowledge of its era. This dataset contains more than 11,000 annotated geographical entries of the Encyclopédie with Wikidata identifiers enabling us to connect these entries to the Wikidata graph.

See the paper, Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata for a full description.

Dataset Description

Repository: https://github.com/pnugues/encyclopedie_1751/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03221

Data Instances

Each sample is a JSON dictionnary with vedette, the headword, entreeid, the entry ID in the ENCCRE nomenclature, texte, the text of the entry and qid, a list of wikidata identifiers, as for example:

{
  "vedette": "AGREDA",
  "entreeid": "v1-868-0",
  "texte": "AGREDA, (Géog.)\u200b ville d’Espagne dans la vieille Castille. Long. 15-54. lat. 41-53."",
  "qid": ["Q39856"]}
}

A few entries contain subentries corresponding to names of persons as for example:

{
  "vedette": "GRENOBLE",
  "entreeid": "v7-1475-0",
  "texte": "GRENOBLE, Gratianopolis, (Géogr.)\u200b ancienne ville de France, capitale du Dauphiné, avec un évêché suffragant de Vienne, & un parlement érigé en 1493 par Louis XI. qui n’étoit encore que dauphin ; ...
           On met au nombre des jurisconsultes dont Grenoble est la patrie, Pape (Guy), qui mourut en 1487 ; son recueil de décisions des plus belles questions de droit, n’est pas encore tombé dans l’oubli.\n\n\n
           M. de Bouchenu de Valbonnais, (Jean Pierre Moret) premier président du parlement de Grenoble, né dans cette ville le 23 Juin 1651, mérite le titre du plus savant historiographe de son pays, ... (D. J.)\u200b',
  "qid": ["Q1289", "Q41617345", "Q3169582"]
}

The order of Wikidata identifiers in the qid list of follows the entity sequence in the text.

Data Fields

vedette: A string containing the entry headword
entreeid: The entry ID in the ENCCRE nomenclature
texte: A string containing the text of the entry with possible subentries
qid: A list of Wikidata identifiers represented as strings.

Citation Information

@InProceedings{nugues:2024:LREC,
  author    = {Nugues, Pierre},
  title     = {Linking Named Entities in Diderot's Encyclopédie to Wikidata},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
  month          = {May},
  year           = {2024},
  address        = {Torino, Italy},
  pages = {10610--10615},
  publisher      = {ELRA and ICCL},
}