---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
size_categories:
- n<1K
tags:
- taxonomy
- label-set
- text-classification
- few-shot
- synthetic
---

# Categories-100-en

A curated set of 100 human-readable English category names, generated via self-instruct prompting with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731.

## Dataset Description

- **Total items:** 100
- **Format:** JSONL (one JSON object per line)
- **Field:** `"category"` – human-readable category name (string)
- **Language:** English
- **License:** Apache 2.0
- **Source:** LLM-generated via DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (self-instruct). Not affiliated with DeepSeek.

## Use cases

- As a **label set** for zero-shot or few-shot text classification demos
- For testing long-list selection / tag extraction in LLMs
- As a quick vocabulary of common subject areas for educational tools

## Limitations

- Categories are **flat** (no hierarchy) and some overlap (e.g., "Physics" vs."Astronomy", "Art" vs. "Painting").
- Generated by an LLM; expect some inconsistencies in granularity.

## Quickstart

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("RowRed/categories-100-en", split="train")
categories = [row["category"] for row in ds]
print(len(categories))  # 100
```
## License

This dataset is released under the **Apache License 2.0**.

**Attribution**: 
> *Generated via self-instruct prompting using DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (MIT-licensed). Not affiliated with DeepSeek.*

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{categories100en,
  author = {RowRed},
  title = {Categories-100-en},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/RowRed/categories-100-en}
}
```