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Labelled data for fine tuning a geological Named Entity Recognition and Entity Relation Extraction model

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
28 August 2026
Topic
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Summary

This dataset consists of sentences extracted from BGS memoirs, DECC/OGA onshore hydrocarbons well reports and Mineral Reconnaissance Programme (MRP) reports. The sentences have been annotated to enable the dataset to be used as labelled training data for a Named Entity Recognition model and Entity Relation Extraction model, both of which are Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques that assist with extracting structured data from unstructured text. The entities of interest are rock formations, geological ages, rock types, physical properties and locations, with inter-relations such as overlies, observedIn. The entity labels for rock formations and geological ages in the BGS memoirs were an extract from earlier published work https://github.com/BritishGeologicalSurvey/geo-ner-model https://zenodo.org/records/4181488 . The data can be used to fine tune a pre-trained large language model using transfer learning, to create a model that can be used in inference mode to automatically create the labels, thereby creating structured data useful for geological modelling and subsurface characterisation. The data is provided in JSONL(Relation) format which is the export format from doccano open source text annotation software (https://doccano.github.io/doccano/) used to create the labels. The source documents are already publicly available, but the MRP and DECC reports are only published in pdf image form. These latter documents had to undergo OCR and resulted in lower quality text and a lower quality training data. The majority of the labelled data is from the higher quality BGS memoirs text. The dataset is a proof of concept. Minimal peer review of the labelling has been conducted so this should not be treated as a gold standard labelled dataset, and it is of insufficient volume to build a performant model. The development of this training data and the text processing scripts were supported by a grant from UK Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) Knowledge Asset Grant Fund Project 10083604

Data links

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Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 28/8/2026
Data 28/8/2026
GitHub - princeton-nlp-relation-extraction 28/8/2026

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
28 August 2026
Harvest GUID
15ac4ca9-3be0-119e-e063-0937940a8990
Dataset reference date (creation)
2024-02-15
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, originator, pointOfContact, principalInvestigator)
ISO 19139 resource type
nonGeographicDataset
Metadata language
eng

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