---
license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - "2015"
  - events
  - chronology
  - factual
pretty_name: 2015 Calendar-Year Events Corpus
---

# 2015 events completion corpus

Every row refers to an event dated **2015-01-01 .. 2015-12-31**.

## Sources (unique facts)

| source | role |
|--------|------|
| `newspaper:guardian` | The Guardian Open Platform (2015 headlines + trail text) |
| `newspaper:gdelt:*` | GDELT events linked to BBC, CNN, Reuters, NYT, WaPo, Al Jazeera, AP, Independent, Bloomberg, Guardian |
| `wikipedia:current_events` | Portal:Current events day pages for all of 2015 |
| `wikipedia:deaths_2015` | Deaths in January–December 2015 |
| `wikipedia:year_in` | "2015 in …" country + topic pages |
| `wikidata:P585` | Wikidata items with point-in-time date in 2015 |
| `curated:2015` / `curated:2015-extra` | small hand seed supplement |

Not used (blocked/empty from this host): live CNN/BBC scrape, GDELT DOC ArtList historical, Wikimedia onthisday feed, NYT/Europeana/Trove without API keys.

Expansion uses distinct prompt/phrase templates only (no punctuation-only duplicates).
Max ~150 rows per unique event.

## Size

- unique events in pool: 443241
- rows written: 66000000
- est. tokens (~1.3× words): ~3,642,776,280