🇬🇭 Ghana Named Entities

A curated dataset of named entities extracted from Ghanaian news sources, compiled by the Ghana NLP Community.

Dataset Description

Each record contains a named entity phrase found in Ghanaian news, along with its frequency count and a short human-readable description of what (or who) the entity refers to.

Dataset Structure

Column	Type	Description
phrase	string	The named entity text as it appeared in the news
count	int	Number of times the entity was observed
description	string	A short description of the entity

Example

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("ghananlpcommunity/ghana-named-entities")
print(ds["train"][0])

Source

Entities were extracted from Ghanaian online news articles. The dataset is intended to support NLP research and applications focused on Ghanaian and West African contexts.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Contributors

This dataset was created and curated by the following members of the Ghana NLP Community:

Name	LinkedIn
Kasuadana Sulemana Adams	Profile
Mich-Seth Owusu	Profile
Jonathan Asiamah	Profile
Emmanuel Saah	Profile
Gerhardt Datsomor	Profile

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research or applications, please cite or acknowledge the Ghana NLP Community and its contributors:

@dataset{ghana_named_entities,
  author    = {Adams, Kasuadana Sulemana and Owusu, Mich-Seth and Asiamah, Jonathan and Saah, Emmanuel and Datsomor, Gerhardt},
  title     = {Ghana Named Entities},
  year      = {2024},
  publisher = {Ghana NLP Community},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ghananlpcommunity/ghana-named-entities}
}