README.md

metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

Dataset Card for EB7

Encyclopædia Britannica (EB) is the most prestigious reference work in English. This dataset contains the text of the entries from the 7th edition (EB7) as well automatically extracted geographical coordinates.

The original text comes from the Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project

Data Instances

Each sample is a JSON dictionnary with id, the entry ID in the Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project nomenclature, texte, the text of the entry and coords, the coordinates if any, and a disclaimer, as for example:

{
  "texte": "NARLAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Orissa, possessed by independent native chiefs. It is thirty miles east from the town of Bustar. Long. 83. 5. E. Lat. 19. 50. N. 0",
  "id": "kp-eb0715-073501-8764",
  "disclamer": "ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
 TRANSCRIPTION (v3.1), The Nineteenth-Century Knowledge Project, 2024
 nckp@temple.edu, https://tu-plogan.github.io/.

 License: CC-BY-4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

 Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences,
 and General Literature. 7th ed., 21 vols. Edinburgh: Adam and 
 Charles Black, 1830-1842. Image scans: Natl. Library of Scotland.

 This entry: 7th edition, volume 15, page 735 [7:15:735]",
  "coords": "19 50' N 83 5' E"}
}

The figure below shows the plot of all the coordinates we could extract.

Code

The extraction and visualization code is available here: https://github.com/pnugues/EB7

Citation Information

@misc{pnugues2025,
  author = {Pierre Nugues},
  title = {Extraction of geographical coordinates from the 7th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica},
  year = 2025,
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/pnugues/EB7}
}