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WikiBio (Wikipedia Biography Dataset)

Introduced by Remi Lebret et al. in Neural Text Generation from Structured Data with Application to the Biography Domain1 Jan 2016 archive 2025-07-28

This dataset gathers 728,321 biographies from English Wikipedia. It aims at evaluating text generation algorithms. For each article, we provide the first paragraph and the infobox (both tokenized).

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Table-to-Text Generation WikiBio Field-gating Seq2seq + dual attention BLEU 44.89 Table-to-text Generation by Structure-aware Seq2seq Learning tyliupku/wiki2bio +2 4 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

3 shown of 3 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 84. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

3 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY-SA 3.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • WikiBio

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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