metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
pretty_name: Nordisk Familjebok Headword Classified Matched Linked Dataset
language:
  - sv
content_types:
  - biographical
  - geographical
  - scientific
  - historical
  - cultural
  - technical
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-classification
libraries:
  - datasets
  - pandas
  - polars
  - croissant
modalities:
  - text
formats:
  - jsonl
date_published: '2025-01-15'
version: 1.0.0
cite_as: >-
  @misc{albinandersson2024massive, title = {Nordisk Familjebok Headword
  Classified Matched Linked Dataset}, author = {Albin Andersson and Salam
  Jonasson and Fredrik Wastring}, year = {2025}, publisher = {Hugging Face}, url
  =
  {https://huggingface.co/datasets/albinandersson/Nordisk-Familjebok-Headword-Classified-Matched-Linked}
  }

Dataset Name: Nordisk Familjebok Headword Classified Matched Linked Dataset

Description

This dataset contains entries from all editions of Nordisk Familjebok with enriched information including extracted headwords, entity type classification, cross-edition matching, and Wikidata linking. Each entry is classified into one of three categories (person, location, or other), matched with corresponding entries across different editions (E1-E4), and linked to Wikidata entities where possible.

Dataset Statistics

Total entries: 418,221
Source: All editions of Nordisk Familjebok (E1, E2, E3 and E4)
Entity types:
Person entries: 87,905
Location entries: 91,621
Other entries: 238,695
Cross-edition matches: 41,644 (20,732 person entries and 20,912 location entries)
Wikidata links: 10,964

Data Fields

entry_id: Unique identifier for each entry (e.g., "E1_137")
headword: Extracted headword from the text
definition: Full text content of the entry
type: Entry classification (0: other, 1: location, 2: person)
edition: Source edition (E1, E2, E3, or E4)
E1_match: Matching entry ID in edition 1 (if available)
E2_match: Matching entry ID in edition 2 (if available)
E3_match: Matching entry ID in edition 3 (if available)
E4_match: Matching entry ID in edition 4 (if available)
QID: Wikidata QID for linked entities (when available)

Example Entry

{
 "entry_id": "E1_137",
 "headword": "Abel",
 "definition": "Abel, konung i Danmark 1250-52...",
 "type": 2,
 "edition": "E1",
 "E1_match": "",
 "E2_match": "E2_203",
 "E3_match": "E3_158",
 "E4_match": "E4_154",
 "QID": "Q27932"
}

Licensing

This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite it as follows:

@misc{albinandersson2025,
    title = {Nordisk Familjebok Headword Classified Matched Linked Dataset},
    author = {Albin Andersson and Salam Jonasson and Fredrik Wastring},
    year = {2025},
    publisher = {Hugging Face},
    url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/albinandersson/Nordisk-Familjebok-Headword-Classified-Matched-Linked}
}