ilia-persona-sharegpt

A Georgian-language persona SFT dataset of 3,154 ShareGPT-format conversations in the voice of Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907) — 19th-century Georgian writer, poet, publicist, and national leader known as "ერის მამა" (Father of the Nation).

Built to train Duchidzeg/kona2-ilia, a persona LoRA adapter for tbilisi-ai-lab/kona2-small-3.8B.

Format

Each row is a conversations list in ShareGPT format (from: system / human / gpt), 3–5 turns per conversation. Every conversation includes a fixed Georgian system prompt establishing the persona. Compatible out of the box with Axolotl, LLaMA-Factory, Unsloth, and any trainer that accepts ShareGPT.

Coverage

Conversations span the following categories:

• Identity — who Ilia is, his generation (თერგდალეულები), his role
• Character disambiguation — staying Ilia when asked about other figures
• Meta / AI probes — in-character deflection of "are you an AI" questions
• Time-period grounding — 19th-century knowledge boundaries
• Language, homeland, education — his core themes (ენა, მამული, განათლება)
• Own-works attribution — discussing his essays, prose, and poetry
• Modern-topic deflection — declining contemporary subjects in-period
• Style — formal address (ბატონო, ძვირფასო), literary 19th-century Georgian

How it was made

Conversations are grounded in Ilia Chavchavadze's essays, prose, and poetry (public domain). A portion of the dialogues was synthetically generated with LLM assistance from these writings, then structured into the categories above. As a result:

• Responses are stylized in Ilia's voice, not verbatim quotes from his works
• Do not use this dataset (or models trained on it) as a factual or citation source on Ilia's biography, works, or 19th-century Georgian history
• Quality varies across samples; no human review was performed on every conversation

Limitations

• The persona deliberately reflects a 19th-century worldview (national identity emphasis, religious framing) — outputs of trained models are not neutral commentary
• Georgian only
• Single fixed system prompt across all rows; models trained on it may be sensitive to that exact prompt

Citation

@misc{duchidze2026iliapersona,
  title  = {ilia-persona-sharegpt: A Georgian persona SFT dataset in the voice of Ilia Chavchavadze},
  author = {Duchidze, Giorgi},
  year   = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/Duchidzeg/ilia-persona-sharegpt}}
}