README.md

metadata

license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - philosophy
  - classical-texts
  - humanities
  - wikitext
  - bpe-tokenizer
  - gpt-training
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: data/validation-*
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 2153173168
      num_examples: 13683034
    - name: validation
      num_bytes: 238462992
      num_examples: 1520338
  download_size: 1628332782
  dataset_size: 2391636160

Philosophy & Humanities Corpus

Combined humanities and Wikipedia corpus for training small language models.

Dataset

Split	Lines	Size	Description
train.txt	3.0M	549 MB	Humanities (368K lines) + WikiText-103 (2.6M lines)
val.txt	315K	57 MB	Matching validation split

Sources

Humanities (368K lines, 66 MB)

54 classical philosophy and humanities texts:

Category	Works
Plato	Republic, Apology, Symposium, Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Laws, Gorgias, Protagoras, Theaetetus
Aristotle	Categories, Ethics, Rhetoric, Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, On the Soul, On the Heavens, Prior/Posterior Analytics, Topics, On Generation & Corruption
Stoics	Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion, Seneca Moral Essays
Roman	Lucretius, Cicero (On Duties, Nature of Gods, On Friendship)
Early Modern	Descartes, Kant, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Bacon
Enlightenment/19th c.	Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Mill, Machiavelli, Emerson, Thoreau, Montaigne, Schopenhauer
Other	Boethius, Diogenes/Epicurus, Aeschylus, Latin Grammar, Euclid Elements

Sources: Project Gutenberg, MIT Internet Classics Archive

WikiText-103 (2.6M lines, 481 MB)

Wikipedia articles from Salesforce/wikitext (wikitext-103-v1). Cleaned, chunked, and deduplicated.

Tokenizer

tokenizer.json — BPE tokenizer (4000 vocab) trained on the combined corpus.

• Format: HuggingFace tokenizers JSON (GPT-2 ByteLevel BPE)
• Special tokens: <|pad|> (id=0), <|eos|> (id=1)

Files

File	Description
train.txt	Combined training data (one chunk per line)
val.txt	Combined validation data
tokenizer.json	BPE tokenizer (vocab_size=4000)
data/*.txt	Individual source text files
train_enriched.jsonl	Enriched training data with metadata
train_trivium.txt	Trivium-phase subset
train_quadrivium.txt	Quadrivium-phase subset
train_philosophy.txt	Philosophy-phase subset

Usage

Training data for JuliaGPT — small transformer language models in Julia (Flux.jl).

# Auto-downloaded by juliadistill.ipynb
hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "train.txt"; repo_type="dataset")
hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "val.txt"; repo_type="dataset")
hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "tokenizer.json"; repo_type="dataset")