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qualc-gutenberg-en

Tasks:
Text Generation
Feature Extraction
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Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
English
Size:
10K - 100K
Tags:
english
gutenberg
books
literature
corpus
llm
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Rada: A Drama of War in One Act
Noyes, Alfred
en
RADA _A DRAMA OF WAR IN ONE ACT_ BY ALFRED NOYES Author of "The Wine Press," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," Etc. PERSONS OF THE PLAY RADA, _wife of the village doctor_. SUBKA, _her daughter, aged twelve_. ARRAM } _two hostile soldiers quartered_ MICHAEL } _in her house, in time of war_. NANKO, _a half-witted schoo...
30,489
Phrenological Development of Robert Burns From a Cast of His Skull Moulded at Dumfries, the 31st Day of March 1834
Combe, George
en
Phrenological DEVELOPMENT of ROBERT BURNS BY George Combe. Engraved & Published by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. April 1834. _REPRINTED JANUARY 1859._ PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ROBERT BURNS, from a Cast of his skull MOULDED AT DUMFRIES. THE 31ST DAY OF MARCH 1834. With Remarks by George Combe, A...
23,635
Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
Woodward, Ashbel
en
Proofreading Team at (This file was produced from images generously made available by The WAMPUM, A PAPER PRESENTED TO THE NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA. BY ASHBEL WOODWARD, M.D., OF FRANKLIN, CONN., CORRESPONDING MEMBER. ALBANY, N. Y.: J. MUNSELL, PRINTER. 1878. Entered accor...
68,756
The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives Being the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix.
Anonymous
en
THE DANGER AND IMMODESTY OF _The Present too general Custom of_ UNNECESSARILY EMPLOYING MEN-MIDWIVES. BEING The Letters which lately appeared under the Signature of A MAN-MIDWIFE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, A TREATISE ON THE MILK, AND AN APPENDIX. WITH CORRECTIONS By the AUTHOR. LONDON: Printed for J. ...
40,752
The Nursery, January 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
en
THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XXIX.--No. 1. BOSTON: THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET. 1881. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. IN PROSE. ...
58,066
"The Silversmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg\r\nAn Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craf(...TRUNCATED)
Ford, Thomas K.
en
"Proofreading Team at \n\n THE\n SILVERSMITH\n in Eighteenth-Century\n _WILLIAMSBURG_\n\n An Account(...TRUNCATED)
70,038
Freak trees of the State of New York
Whipple, Gurth Adelbert
en
"Transcriber’s Note\n Italic text displayed as: _italic_\n\n FREAK TREES\n\n OF THE\n\n STATE OF N(...TRUNCATED)
77,716
The Cohansey tea-fight
Guernsey, Lucy Ellen
en
"New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the\npublic domain.\n\n THE COHANSEY (...TRUNCATED)
29,379
"The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion\nRemarks at Annual Dinner, Association of Stock Exch(...TRUNCATED)
Kahn, Otto H.
en
"Team ( from digital material generously made available\n( \n\nNote: Images of the original pages ar(...TRUNCATED)
16,029
"The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 48, October 7, 1897\nA Weekly Magazin(...TRUNCATED)
Various
en
"Distributed Proofreading Team.( \n\n VOL. 1 OCTOBER 7, 1897. NO. 48\n\n=Copyright, 1897, by THE GRE(...TRUNCATED)
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QualC Gutenberg English Corpus

Dataset Description

The QualC Gutenberg English Corpus is a production-quality English text corpus created from public-domain books available through Project Gutenberg.

The corpus has been cleaned and validated specifically for Large Language Model (LLM) pretraining while preserving the original literary content.

Supported Tasks

  • Language Modeling
  • Large Language Model Pretraining
  • Text Embedding
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • NLP Research
  • Corpus Linguistics

Dataset Summary

Item Value
Books 10,048
Language English
Source Project Gutenberg
Format Hugging Face Dataset
Status Production Ready

Dataset Structure

Features

Feature Type
id int64
title string
author string
language string
text string

Data Collection

Books were collected from the official Project Gutenberg RDF catalog.

Only English-language books were selected.

Data Cleaning

The dataset was processed using a multi-stage cleaning pipeline.

Cleaning included:

  • Removing Project Gutenberg headers
  • Removing Project Gutenberg footers
  • Removing HTML tags
  • Removing URLs
  • Removing OCR artifacts
  • Removing illustration placeholders
  • Removing transcriber's notes
  • Removing separator lines
  • Removing duplicate books
  • Removing empty books
  • UTF-8 validation

The original literary content was preserved wherever possible.

Validation

The dataset passed the following validation checks.

Check Status
Empty Books ✅
Duplicate IDs ✅
Duplicate Text ✅
Gutenberg Headers ✅
Gutenberg Footers ✅
URLs ✅
HTML ✅
UTF-8 Encoding ✅
Replacement Characters ✅
Illustration Placeholders ✅
Transcriber's Notes ✅
Page Numbers ✅
Separator Lines ✅
ASCII Artifacts ✅

Intended Uses

This dataset is intended for:

  • Foundation Model Pretraining
  • Large Language Models
  • Language Modeling
  • NLP Research
  • Text Representation Learning
  • Academic Research

Limitations

  • Contains historical literature from Project Gutenberg.
  • Writing style, spelling, and vocabulary vary across publication periods.
  • The corpus reflects the content of the original public-domain works.

Source Data

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Licensing

This dataset consists of texts obtained from Project Gutenberg.

Users are responsible for complying with the licensing terms applicable to the original Project Gutenberg works.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite both Project Gutenberg and this dataset.

@misc{qualc_gutenberg_en_v1,
  title        = {QualC Gutenberg English Corpus},
  author       = {Nandhakumar M.S.},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  version      = {1.0}
}

Acknowledgements

  • Project Gutenberg
  • Hugging Face Datasets
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