import json input_file = 'kilt_wikipedia_entites.txt' output_file = 'kilt_wikipedia_entites.jsonl' with open(input_file, 'r') as input_text, open(output_file, 'w') as output_jsonl: for line in input_text: #entry = {"word": line.strip()} json.dump(line.strip(), output_jsonl) output_jsonl.write('\n')