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belebele

Tsonga(tso)Textquestion-answering, zero-shot-classification, text-classification, multiple-choiceSouthern Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Tsonga (tso)
Modality
Text
Domain
NLP
Size
100K<n<1M n (samples)
Institution
mteb
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-sa-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

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Registry columns (20/27)

iso code
tso
Dataset name
belebele
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/belebele
NLP Task
question-answering, zero-shot-classification, text-classification, multiple-choice
Domain
NLP
Data Format
json
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
100K<n<1M n (samples)
License
cc-by-sa-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2026
Creator/Author(s)
mteb
Funder/Partner
Meta
Dialect Coverage
Not stated
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
Not stated
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Data format: json

Quality (DQI) (4/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
Not stated
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
Not stated
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Not stated
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation74%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/belebele
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
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Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

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belebele

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belebele

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24 languages3 copiesTsonga(tso)Textquestion-answering, zero-shot-classification, text-classification, multiple-choice
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Open27 Oct 2026

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