--- configs: - config_name: senses_it data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=it/*.parquet - config_name: senses_ja data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=ja/*.parquet - config_name: senses_la data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=la/*.parquet - config_name: senses_pl data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=pl/*.parquet - config_name: senses_pt data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=pt/*.parquet - config_name: senses_ru data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=ru/*.parquet - config_name: senses_sv data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=sv/*.parquet - config_name: senses_zh data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=zh/*.parquet - config_name: entries data_files: - split: train path: entries/**/*.parquet - config_name: examples data_files: - split: train path: examples/**/*.parquet - config_name: forms data_files: - split: train path: forms/**/*.parquet - config_name: linkages data_files: - split: train path: linkages/**/*.parquet - config_name: senses data_files: - split: train path: senses/**/*.parquet - config_name: sounds data_files: - split: train path: sounds/**/*.parquet - config_name: translations data_files: - split: train path: translations/**/*.parquet - config_name: senses_ca data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=ca/*.parquet - config_name: senses_de data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=de/*.parquet - config_name: senses_en data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=en/*.parquet - config_name: senses_es data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=es/*.parquet - config_name: senses_fi data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=fi/*.parquet - config_name: senses_fr data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=fr/*.parquet - config_name: senses_gl data_files: - split: train path: senses/part=gl/*.parquet size_categories: - 10M | non-disambiguated | | `n_senses`, `n_translations`, `n_forms` | int32 | counts, to filter without joining | ### `senses` table | Column | Type | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | `entry_id`, `sense_idx` | int64 | composite key | | `gloss` | string | the primary definition | | `glosses`, `raw_glosses` | list\ | `raw_glosses` keeps the parenthesized qualifiers | | `tags` | list\ | list of qualifiers and tags, like `archaic`, `colloquial`, `plural`, … | | `topics`, `categories` | list\ | sense-disambiguated | | `form_of`, `alt_of` | string | set when this sense is an inflection or variant of another word | | `n_examples` | int32 | | ### `sounds` table [`ipa`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet), [`enpr`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_respelling_for_English), `audio` (file name), `ogg_url`, `mp3_url`, `audio_ipa`, plus `homophones`, `hyphenation` and `tags` (contains context information, like dialect) as lists. Audio files themselves are not included, you can bulk them download from [kaikki.org](https://kaikki.org/dictionary/rawdata.html). Please don't scrape them individually from Wikimedia. ### `linkages` table All nine relation types in one table with a `relation` column: `synonym`, `antonym`, `hypernym`, `hyponym`, `holonym`, `meronym`, `derived`, `related`, `coordinate_term`. `source_word` → `target_word`. `holonym` and `meronym` are sparse. Wiktionary does not encode them systematically. ## Partitioning Files are partitioned by language: `senses/part=en/…`, `senses/part=de/…`, and so on. Wiktionary has codes for thousands of languages, and most have a handful of entries. Languages below **50,000 entries** are pooled into `part=misc` rather than given a directory each (4,900 directories are a lot!). `lang_code` remains a real column inside every file, so filtering always works: ```sql -- Works for any language, partitioned or not SELECT * FROM 'hf://datasets/jake-anto/wiktionary/senses/**/*.parquet' WHERE lang_code = 'ml'; ``` ```python ds = load_dataset("jake-anto/wiktionary", "senses", split="train", streaming=True) ml = ds.filter(lambda r: r["lang_code"] == "ml") ``` Named per-language configs exist for the largest languages only. Everything else uses the pattern above. ## Bias, Risks, and Limitations - 148 byte-identical duplicates were removed. - `word_fold` is NULL outside Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Accent-stripping is meaningless for Han, Devanagari and Arabic script. - Coverage is deeply uneven. English dominates with a whopping 1,481,699 entries. Many languages have fewer than a hundred entries. - Quality is Wiktionary's quality. ## Licensing Wiktionary content is dual-licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL. This dataset is a derivative work and is released under **CC BY-SA 4.0**. ## Citation **BibTeX:** ```bibtex @misc{ Jake2026 , title = {Wiktionary Structured}, author = { Anto, Jake }, year = { 2026 }, url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/jake-anto/wiktionary}, note = {Derived from en Wiktionary via wiktextract. Dump 2026-07-06.} } ``` ## Dataset Card Authors - Jake Anto