| --- |
| pretty_name: Commonplace Knowledge — Simple English Wikipedia |
| language: |
| - en |
| license: other |
| license_name: component-specific-apache-2.0-and-cc-by-sa |
| license_link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/DevParker/Commonplace-Knowledge/blob/main/LICENSES.md |
| task_categories: |
| - text-retrieval |
| tags: |
| - wikipedia |
| - embeddings |
| - local-research |
| - source-linked-memory |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: articles |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: source/simplewiki.parquet |
| - config_name: passages |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: index/chunks.parquet |
| --- |
| |
| # Commonplace Knowledge |
|
|
| A reproducible starting knowledge pack for Commonplace, a local research and |
| memory tool. Published as a Hugging Face **dataset** repository at |
| [DevParker/Commonplace-Knowledge](https://huggingface.co/datasets/DevParker/Commonplace-Knowledge). |
| It includes the pinned encoder as a component; it is not a newly trained model. |
|
|
| The payload contains **241,787 Simple English Wikipedia articles**, **344,558 |
| passages**, **5,772 narrow extracted assertions**, a vector index, and a clean |
| writable-memory seed with no custom additions. No personal notes, saved model |
| thoughts, research transcripts, generation-model weights or credentials are included. |
|
|
| ## Contents |
|
|
| | Folder | Contents | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | `source/` | Original pinned Simple English snapshot Parquet | |
| | `index/` | Source-offset passages, normalized 512-dimensional FAISS index, metadata | |
| | `catalog/` | Immutable lexical/entity/assertion SQLite catalog and active manifest | |
| | `seed/` | Empty writable-memory schema; no custom additions | |
| | `encoder/` | Pinned Google EmbeddingGemma 2 model, tokenizer and configuration | |
| | `provenance/` | Original dataset card, identities, chunking and seed audit | |
| | `licenses/` | Applicable license texts | |
|
|
| `manifest.json` lists SHA-256 and byte size for every payload file. All payloads |
| are real local files, with no links into another project. Large files have Git LFS |
| attributes. The manifest records the exact total; the pack is approximately 3.3 GiB. |
|
|
| ## Pinned sources |
|
|
| * Dataset: `wikimedia/wikipedia`, snapshot `20231101.simple`, revision |
| `b04c8d1ceb2f5cd4588862100d08de323dccfbaa`. |
| * Encoder: `google/embeddinggemma-2`, revision |
| `914f7f89142e33e77833254d9c9b90c3cef7303b`. |
|
|
| The index uses exact inner-product search over normalized FP32 vectors. |
| The metadata's `storage_dtype: float16` describes the original input shards, |
| not the internal FAISS index representation. Redundant input shards are excluded. |
|
|
| ## Use |
|
|
| Install the independent [Commonplace MCP/API](https://github.com/BANTAM-ADMIN/commonplace). |
| It does not include or require Bantam Factory or a generation model. From the |
| software checkout, after installing its Python and Node dependencies: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| .venv/bin/python scripts/download_pack.py --dest ../Commonplace-Knowledge |
| .venv/bin/python scripts/prepare_store.py --pack ../Commonplace-Knowledge |
| node scripts/commonplace.mjs serve |
| ``` |
|
|
| The software's release descriptor pins an exact dataset commit and pack identity. |
| No Hugging Face sign-in is required to download this public pack. See the |
| [installation and MCP connection guide](https://github.com/BANTAM-ADMIN/commonplace/blob/main/docs/QUICKSTART.md). |
|
|
| Setup verifies checksums and copies the public seed into a separate writable |
| local store. Subsequent research changes that store, not this public pack. |
| The encoder runs on CPU by default. A local generation model is needed only for |
| the optional full researcher, not for direct memory access. |
|
|
| The dataset card declares two separate Parquet configurations, `articles` and |
| `passages`. If using the Hugging Face `datasets` library after publication, choose |
| one explicitly; they have different schemas. Commonplace itself downloads the |
| whole pinned pack and uses its local SQLite/FAISS files, without that library. |
|
|
| ## Coverage and limitations |
|
|
| This is Simple English Wikipedia from November 2023. It does not contain the |
| complete English Wikipedia and is not a current world-knowledge database. |
| Sparse articles, missing topics, ambiguous entities and |
| extraction errors remain. Similarity scores do not establish truth. A source |
| citation does not prove that a model correctly interpreted the source. |
|
|
| Wikipedia's editorial and geographic coverage is uneven. Short, simplified |
| articles can omit important qualifications, and the source may contain errors, |
| outdated information or sensitive material. This release does not independently |
| fact-check every article or extracted assertion. |
|
|
| The seed contains no model interpretations; these accrue only in a user's local |
| writable memory. No promise of automatic improvement or universal answer-quality |
| gains is made. See the software repository's validation and design documents. |
|
|
| Attribution, transformations and component licenses: [LICENSES.md](LICENSES.md). |
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