amalia-llm/PT-Culture_Data

Portuguese Cultural SFT Dataset

A supervised fine-tuning dataset for European Portuguese (PT-PT) cultural knowledge, built to teach models the traditions, figures, places, and expressions of Portuguese culture.

The dataset contains 95,815 examples in conversational SFT format, organised into ten cultural domains:

Domain	Examples
Personalities	36,370
Proverbs	16,178
Audiovisual	15,786
Geography	11,947
Heritage	8,020
Literature	3,199
Gastronomy	2,492
Festivals	750
Holidays	677
Sports	396
Total	95,815

The data spans seven task types: Verification, short and long question-answering, proverb meaning explanation, cultural-context reasoning, entity comparison, and multi-turn dialogue.

This dataset is provided as part of the AMALIA project and is included in the data mix used to post-train the AMALIA model.

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Citation

If you use this dataset or AMALIA in your work, please cite:

@inproceedings{simplicio-etal-2026-amalia,
    title = "{AMALIA}: A Fully Open Large Language Model for {E}uropean {P}ortuguese",
    author = "Simpl{{\'i}}cio, Afonso and Vinagre, Gon{{\c{{c}}}}alo and Ramos, Miguel Moura and Tavares, Diogo and Ferreira, Rafael and Attanasio, Giuseppe and Alves, Duarte M. and Calvo, In{{\^e}}s and Vieira, In{{\^e}}s and Guerra, Rui and Furtado, James and Canaverde, Beatriz and Paulo, Iago and Ramos, Vasco and Gl{{\'o}}ria-Silva, Diogo and Faria, Miguel and Treviso, Marcos and Gomes, Daniel and Gomes, Pedro and Semedo, David and Martins, Andr{{\'e}} and Magalh{{\~a}}es, Jo{{\~a}}o",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of {{P}}ortuguese ({{PROPOR}} 2026) - Vol. 1",
    month = apr,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Salvador, Brazil",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.38/",
    pages = "380--391",
    isbn = "979-8-89176-387-6"
}

@misc{simplicio2026amaliatechnicalreportfully,
    title = {AMALIA Technical Report: A Fully Open Source Large Language Model for European Portuguese},
    author = {Afonso Simplício and Gonçalo Vinagre and Miguel Moura Ramos and Diogo Tavares and Rafael Ferreira and Giuseppe Attanasio and Duarte M. Alves and Inês Calvo and Inês Vieira and Rui Guerra and James Furtado and Beatriz Canaverde and Iago Paulo and Vasco Ramos and Diogo Glória-Silva and Miguel Faria and Marcos Treviso and Daniel Gomes and Pedro Gomes and David Semedo and André Martins and João Magalhães},
    year = {2026},
    eprint = {2603.26511},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.CL},
    url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26511}
}