Datasets:
language:
- ne
language_code:
- npi
pretty_name: Nepali Social SFT Dataset
tags:
- nepali
- nepal
- nepali-language
- devanagari
- sft
- supervised-fine-tuning
- instruction-following
- social-science
- synthetic
- question-answering
- multiple-choice
task_categories:
- question-answering
- text-generation
- text-classification
license: apache-2.0
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
Nepali Social Studies MCQ — SFT Dataset
A cleaned, deduplicated, bias-corrected instruction-tuning dataset of Nepali-language multiple-choice questions on social studies topics, derived from the Aya Dataset.
Dataset Summary
| Rows | 27,891 |
| Language | Nepali (ne / npi), Devanagari script |
| Task type | Instruction-following (single-turn MCQ Q&A) |
| Domain | Social studies (सामाजिक) — MCQ only |
| License | Apache-2.0 (permissive) |
| Source | CohereLabs/aya_dataset (config: default, split: train), revision f9ea04583f02a8f86404ff6c58bf75fe637df8a2 |
| Source subset | aya_human_nepali |
| Generation type | Synthetic (originally human-authored source, machine-processed pipeline) |
| Format | JSONL, one JSON object per line |
This is a processed derivative of a single upstream slice (aya_human_nepali).
It is not a general-purpose Nepali instruction dataset — every row is a 4-option
social studies multiple-choice question.
File Structure
Each line is a JSON object:
{
"id": "sg_25728771e8644154729b5458133abea1",
"conversations": [
{"from": "human", "value": "समाजमा शान्ति कायम गर्न के आवश्यक छ? क) द्वन्द्व ख) घृणा ग) ईर्ष्या घ) सद्भाव"},
{"from": "gpt", "value": "घ) सद्भाव"}
],
"source": "CohereLabs/aya_dataset:default:train",
"source_name": "aya_human_nepali",
"source_repo": "CohereLabs/aya_dataset",
"source_config": "default",
"source_split": "train",
"source_revision": "f9ea04583f02a8f86404ff6c58bf75fe637df8a2",
"source_row_id": "sg_25728771e8644154729b5458133abea1:1",
"language": "ne",
"language_code": "npi",
"script": "Deva",
"license": "Apache-2.0",
"license_tier": "permissive",
"task_type": "instruction-following",
"generation_type": "synthetic",
"condition": "synthetic",
"url": "",
"metadata_json": "{\"generation_domain\": \"सामाजिक\", \"generation_category\": \"सामाजिक\", \"question_type\": \"बहुविकल्पीय\", \"question_length\": \"अति छोटो तथा छोटो\", \"content_language\": \"नेपाली\", \"content_script\": \"देवनागरी\"}"
}
Field reference
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
id |
string | Unique per row. No duplicates. |
conversations |
array[2] | Exactly one human turn (question + 4 options) and one gpt turn (labeled answer). |
source* |
string | Full upstream provenance chain, constant across the dataset (single source). |
language / language_code / script |
string | ne / npi / Deva for every row. |
license / license_tier |
string | Apache-2.0 / permissive for every row. |
task_type |
string | instruction-following for every row. |
generation_type / condition |
string | synthetic for every row. |
url |
string | Always empty — no upstream URL was recorded for this source. |
metadata_json |
string (JSON-encoded) | See below. Must be json.loads'd — it's stored as a string, not a nested object. |
metadata_json sub-fields (all constant across the dataset)
| Sub-field | Value | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
generation_domain |
सामाजिक | Social studies |
generation_category |
सामाजिक | Social studies |
question_type |
बहुविकल्पीय | Multiple choice |
question_length |
अति छोटो तथा छोटो | Very short / short |
content_language |
नेपाली | Nepali |
content_script |
देवनागरी | Devanagari |
MCQ format convention
- Options are always labeled
क)ख)ग)घ)(Devanagari equivalents of A/B/C/D), embedded in thehumanturn after the question stem. - The
gptturn is always<label>) <option text>— the label plus the exact option text, space-separated.
Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total rows | 27,891 |
| Question length (chars) | min 51 · median 105 · mean 105.5 · max 185 |
| Answer length (chars) | min 5 · median 18 · mean 18.2 · max 53 |
| Unique question strings | 27,889 (2 collisions — see Known Issues) |
| Answer-option label distribution | क) 21.9% · ख) 27.8% · ग) 25.4% · घ) 24.8% |
The answer-label distribution is intentionally near-uniform (see Processing History).
Processing History
This file is the output of a 3-stage cleaning pipeline applied to a raw
aya_human_nepali export (originally 29,029 rows):
Stage 1 — Structural validation Verified JSON validity, schema consistency, non-empty turns, and unique IDs. No rows dropped at this stage.
Stage 2 — Foreign-script / homoglyph contamination removal
The raw export had characters from ~18 unrelated Unicode scripts (Armenian,
Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Greek, Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, Telugu, Hangul, Kannada,
Malayalam, Hebrew, Sinhala, Georgian, Thai, Ethiopic, Oriya) substituted into
what should have been pure Devanagari text — e.g. रहित corrupted to रहಿತ.
1,117 rows were auto-removed for this reason (a smaller number of visually
similar corruptions remain — see Known Issues).
Stage 3 — MCQ answer-position rebalancing
The raw export had 84.8% of correct answers sitting in option क) (position 1)
— a positional bias a model would learn to exploit instead of reading the
question. Each valid, uncorrupted MCQ had its 4 options deterministically
shuffled (seeded by row id, reproducible) and the question/answer text
rewritten to match. 27,891 rows were successfully rebalanced; 21 rows
where the correct option couldn't be confidently identified (corrupted text)
were excluded rather than guessed.
29,029 → −1,117 (contamination) → −21 (unresolvable MCQ) → 27,891 final rows
Known Issues (as of this file)
These are documented, not hidden — check before using for training or eval.
Residual character-level corruption (~135 rows / 0.5%) The contamination filter used in Stage 2 didn't cover every Unicode block. Confirmed residual cases:
- Myanmar vowel signs (e.g.
भूमिकသ— U+1031) - Arabic Presentation Forms-B (e.g. a stray U+FEEC inside a Nepali word)
- Latin Extended-A ligatures/diacritics (
ğ,œ) inside Nepali words - One Private Use Area character (U+F8FF)
- Stray combining diacritics with no base character (U+0308) These rows are not flagged in this file and should be filtered before training if exact cleanliness matters.
- Myanmar vowel signs (e.g.
2 duplicate question pairs introduced by rebalancing Two pairs of rows shared the same question stem and same 4-option pool in the source data (just in different original order/answer) — a form of near-duplication the literal-string dedup step didn't catch pre-rebalance. Independent shuffling coincidentally produced identical final text for each pair:
sg_870ce75e2773760fbd9b4cb2b69cd555/sg_ebe54de3e99d4de5f124c9ca0dd83d14sg_e7783f31aec816aef8f9d6786a267c0c/sg_8c4838103eb655741dc0fb744d2bf5b5
Zero diversity by design, not by accident 100% of rows are: single source (
aya_human_nepali), single domain (सामाजिक), single question type (MCQ), single length bucket (short). This is a narrow, homogeneous slice. If broader Nepali SFT coverage is the goal, this file needs to be combined with other domains/sources — it is not a general-purpose instruction dataset on its own.No held-out split All 27,891 rows are from
source_split: train. There is no dev/test split in this file — carve one out before using for evaluation.
Recommended Use
- Suitable as one ingredient in a larger Nepali instruction-tuning mix, specifically for MCQ-style social studies knowledge.
- Not suitable on its own for general instruction-following, open-ended generation, or any domain outside social studies MCQs — the model will overfit to this narrow format if trained on it in isolation.
- Filter or manually review the ~135 residual-corruption rows and the 2 duplicate pairs above before final training use.
License
Apache-2.0, inherited from the upstream CohereLabs/aya_dataset. Verify
this still applies to your specific use case and jurisdiction — Apache-2.0
covers the dataset structure/text; check upstream terms for any additional
conditions CohereLabs may have attached to the Aya Dataset specifically.
Citation / Provenance
If publishing or citing this dataset, credit the upstream source:
Source: CohereLabs/aya_dataset (config: default, split: train)
Revision: f9ea04583f02a8f86404ff6c58bf75fe637df8a2
Subset: aya_human_nepali
Changelog
| Version | Rows | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Raw export | 29,029 | Original aya_human_nepali pull |
| v1 cleaned | 29,029 | Structural validation only (no removals) |
| v2 cleaned | 27,891 | + foreign-script contamination removal (−1,117) + MCQ rebalancing (−21 unresolvable) |