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library_of_congress_filtered

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2024-05-14T16:22:35.555554	21007987	{"author":"Sullivan, Kathleen Anne","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/21007987","language":"engli(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"grace, \nYour old smile of helpfulness illumining your face ; Arms outstretched so yearningly to we(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:36.187973	10034467	{"author":"Trumbull, Benjamin","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/10034467","language":"english","(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"District of Massachusetts : to wit, \nBE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirtieth day of March, in the (...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:37.175588	ltf90013629	{"author":"Abbott, Jacob","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/ltf90013629","language":"english","li(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"The history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted extensively the atte(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:37.753894	unk82047054	{"author":"Matthews, John","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/unk82047054","language":"english","l(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. \nSome persons are more influenced by the temporal benefits of the gospel tha(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:38.111811	07028265	{"author":"Perry & Fitzgerald","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/07028265","language":"english","(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"\" The process is simple, cleanly and uniform in its results, involving the me of no substance resp(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:38.521756	07017120	{"author":"Adams, John Quincy","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/07017120","language":"english","(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"ADVERTISEMENT. \nThe National Intelligencer of the 21st of October last, contams a statement made b(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:38.883040	06004236	{"author":"Hawkins, Dexter Arnoll","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/06004236","language":"englis(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"Mr. Chancellor, and Ladies and Gentlemen : \nWhen invited to appear before you this year by the emi(...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:39.354352	42027286	{"author":"Knowles, James Sheridan","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/42027286","language":"engli(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"ontaining Rouge, Pearl Powder, Whiting, Mongolian, Ruddy Rouge, Violet Powder, c and Puff; Chrome, (...TRUNCATED)
2024-05-14T16:22:39.664244	20023819	{"author":"Stevens, William Herbert","item_url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/20023819","language":"engl(...TRUNCATED)	loc_books	"I made a conscientious, nay an almost heroic attempt recently, to read that autobiographical work s(...TRUNCATED)

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Library of Congress

Description

The Library of Congress (LoC) curates a collection of public domain books called "Selected Digitized Books". We have downloaded over 130,000 English-language books from this public domain collection as OCR plain text files using the LoC APIs.

Dataset Statistics

Documents	UTF-8 GB
129,052	35.6

License Issues

While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.

Other Versions

This is the "filtered" version of the Library of Congress dataset. If you are looking for the raw version, you can find it here.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@article{kandpal2025common,
  title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
  author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben  and Elie Bakouch and John David  and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025}
}

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Common Pile v0.1 Filtered Data

Collection

An LLM pre-training dataset produced by filtering and deduplicating the raw text collected in the Common Pile v0.1 • 31 items • Updated 3 days ago • 10