DATASETHugging Face

4/5

SimbaBench dataset

Kalenjin(kln)TextLMEast Africa

Dataset Info

Language

Kalenjin (kln)

Modality

Text

Domain

General

Size

100K<n<1M

Institution

UBC-NLP

Last Updated

10 Jul 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

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Registry columns (22/27)

iso code: kln
Dataset name: SimbaBench dataset
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset
NLP Task: LM
Domain: General
Data Format: parquet
Size Metric: Files
Size Value: 100K<n<1MderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License: cc-by-4.0
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2026
Creator/Author(s): UBC-NLP
Funder/Partner: Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage: Mixed
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Not stated
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-07-10
Notes / Flags: Hugging Face dataset tagged for Kalenjin. This may be a broad multilingual resource rather than a language-specific corpus.

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?: Yes
Content Hash: d2e09bbeeb5981d913b6f1a3d1a41574ece905c5derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date: 2026-07-10
Last Updated Date: 2026-02-27derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?: Not stated
IAA Score: Not stated
Cleaning Notes: Not stated
Benchmark Exists?: Not stated
Benchmark Citation: Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (3/7)

Gender Distribution: Not stated
Region Coverage: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia
Region Distribution: Not stated
Age Range Coverage: Not stated
Register: Spoken
Marginalized Group Note: Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count: 1

Readiness Score Breakdown

4/5

Data Coverage79%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation64%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/SimbaBench_dataset

Fetch Timestamp

10 Jul 2026

Content Hash

d2e09bbeeb5981d913b6f1a3d1a41574ece905c5

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

10 Jul 2026

Source status: Active

10 Jul 2026

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