FactSense Dataset
Overview
FactSense is the linguistic layer of FactNet that provides multilingual, natural language expressions of facts extracted from Wikipedia pages. Each FactSense instance represents a FactStatement realized in natural text with provenance information.
- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03417
- Github: https://github.com/yl-shen/factnet
- Dataset: https://huggingface.co/collections/openbmb/factnet
Dataset Format
The dataset contains parquet files with the following key fields:
factsense_id: Unique identifier for the FactSense instancebelongs_to_statement_id: ID of the associated FactStatementlanguage: Language code (e.g., 'en', 'zh')page_id: Wikipedia page IDpage_title: Title of the Wikipedia pagepage_namespace: Wikipedia namespacematch_type: Type of match (sitelink, sitelink_pagelink, label_based, etc.)sentence: Text snippet containing the fact mention (limited to 1000 chars)sentence_index: Position of the sentence in the paragraph/pageconfidence: Match confidence score (0.5-0.9)subject_qid: Subject entity QIDproperty_pid: Property PIDvalue_qid: Value entity QID (if applicable)subject_label: Label used for matchingvalue_label: Value label used for matchingextraction_method: Extraction strategy versionextraction_ts: Extraction timestamp
Usage
FactSense instances provide natural language evidence for facts across multiple languages, enabling applications in multilingual fact checking, knowledge-grounded generation, and cross-lingual information retrieval.
License
This dataset contains text derived from Wikipedia and is available under the CC BY-SA license.
Citation
@article{shen2026factnet,
title={FactNet: A Billion-Scale Knowledge Graph for Multilingual Factual Grounding},
author={Shen, Yingli and Lai, Wen and Zhou, Jie and Zhang, Xueren and Wang, Yudong and Luo, Kangyang and Wang, Shuo and Gao, Ge and Fraser, Alexander and Sun, Maosong},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03417},
year={2026}
}