wainshine/Chinese-Names-Corpus resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A curated corpus of Chinese, Japanese, and translated English personal names, plus surnames, kinship terms, and idioms, totaling millions of entries. It includes a name generator and is intended as dictionary data for Chinese word segmentation and named entity recognition.

Use cases

• build a Chinese NER model that recognizes person names
• add a Chinese person-name dictionary to a word segmentation tool
• generate plausible Chinese names for test data or fictional characters
• get a list of Chinese surnames or kinship terms
• find translated English or Japanese names for cross-language NLP

When to choose

• you need large cleaned name lists for Chinese/Japanese NLP tasks
• you want dictionary data to boost segmentation or person-name recognition
• you need a name generator for Chinese names

When to avoid

• you need structured records with gender, age, or pinyin annotations (only the parent NameMoe graph has those)
• you need a maintained library or API rather than static text files
• you require zero noise - the data still contains some badcases

Facets

dataset · maturity maintenance

nlp data-generation parser data-science cross-platform chinese-names name-corpus named-entity-recognition word-segmentation japanese-names english-names name-generator dictionary-data natural-language-processing localization

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