GIDS (Relation Extraction)

GIDS (Google-IISc Distant Supervision) is a general-domain sentence-level relation extraction (RE) dataset. Each example pairs a sentence (mentioning a head and tail entity) with the relation that holds between the two entities. It was built by extending the human-judged Google Relation Extraction corpus with additional distantly-supervised sentences, and is designed so that every entity pair has at least one sentence that expresses the target relation (reducing the noise typical of distant supervision).

This copy is packaged for the paper "Sub-Billion, Super-Frontier: Fine-Tuned Small Language Models Rival Zero-Shot Frontier LLMs on General and Literary Relation Extraction" (Christou & Tsoumakas, 2026) arXiv:2606.22606. Rows are pre-formatted as instruction prompts so the dataset can be used directly for prompt-conditioned fine-tuning and evaluation.

Dataset structure

Splits: train, validation, test.

Column	Description
prompt_0_shot	Zero-shot instruction prompt (task instructions + the input sentence).
prompt_2_shot	Same prompt with 2 in-context demonstrations prepended.
prompt_5_shot	Same prompt with 5 in-context demonstrations prepended.
relation	Gold relation label (the target/completion).

The relation column holds a small set of Freebase-style relation types (e.g. birth/death place and education-related relations) plus a no-relation / NA label; inspect the column for the exact set. The three prompt_* columns are alternative renderings of the same example at different shot counts, so pick one shot setting per experiment rather than concatenating them.

An example of 'train' looks as follows:

{
  "text": "War as appropriate. Private Alfred James_Smurthwaite Sample. 26614. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Edward James Sample, of North_Ormesby , Yorks. Died 2 April 1917. Aged 29. Born Ormesby, Enlisted Middlesbrough. Buried BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX. Not listed on the Middlesbrough War Memorial Private Frederick Scott. 46449. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of William and Maria Scott, of 25, Aspinall St., Heywood, Lancs. Born at West Hartlepool. Died 27 May 1918. Aged 24.", 
  "entity1": "Alfred", 
  "entity2": "Yorkshire", 
  "entity1Type": "PERSON", 
  "entity2Type": "LOCATION", 
  "relation": 'fight_at'
}

Data Splits

	Train	Dev	Test
GIDS	11297	1864	5663

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("Despina/gids")
print(ds["test"][0]["prompt_2_shot"])  # formatted input
print(ds["test"][0]["relation"])       # gold label

Source and licensing

GIDS is derived from the Google Relation Extraction corpus (distantly extended over Wikipedia text) and was introduced by Jat, Khandelwal & Talukdar (2018). It is available for research use; please respect the terms of the underlying Google Relation Extraction corpus and cite the original GIDS resource alongside the paper below.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite our paper:

@article{christou2026subbillion,
  title        = {Sub-Billion, Super-Frontier: Small Language Models Rival
                  Zero-Shot Frontier LLMs on General and Literary Relation Extraction},
  author       = {Christou, Despina and Tsoumakas, Grigorios},
  journal      = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.22606},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22606}
}