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# Dataset Name: Nordisk Familjebok Category Classification Dataset

## Description
This dataset contains 6,000 manually annotated text entries from Nordisk Familjebok, classified into three categories: locations, persons, and other miscellaneous entries.

## Dataset Statistics
Train set distribution (5,100 entries):
- Other (0): 1,997 entries
- Location (1): 1,858 entries  
- Person (2): 1,245 entries

Test set distribution (900 entries):
- Other (0): 330 entries
- Location (1): 335 entries
- Person (2): 235 entries

## Files
- **train_set.jsonl**: Contains 5,100 entries with text and category labels
- **test_set.jsonl**: Contains 900 manually verified entries for evaluation

## Data Fields
- definition: Definition from Nordisk Familjebok
- type: Category label integer (0: Other, 1: Location, 2: Person)

## Licensing
This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users can use, modify, and share this dataset for non-commercial purposes with appropriate credit and under the same license.

## Citation

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

```bibtex
@misc{albinandersson2024categories,
   title = {Nordisk Familjebok Category Classification Dataset},
   author = {Albin Andersson and Salam Jonasson and Fredrik Wastring},
   year = {2024},
   publisher = {Hugging Face},
   url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/albinandersson/Nordisk-Familjebok-Category-Classification-Dataset}
}