I was reading Anabasis by Xenonphon
and got to wondering where are all these places the ten thousand went to?
Reading each line and recording each place name into a spreadsheet and then doing a look-up in wikis or googles
seemed a little too last century minus one, so I wondered some more: are there software bits that would help?
Which led me to NLP (natural language processing) and thus Spacy, one such.
spacy.io software runs in python, and you can feed in a blob of text,
and it will parse out names, proper nouns, places, sentences and other stuff.
Perfect I thought, but Spacy.io made a bit of mess of classifying people and places. Sometimes, reading the
context, you might want to move a word to a People or a Places or a Proper Nouns list for later refinement. So
I wrote some editing pages (not shown) to help me classify a word into whether it be a
place or person or people name.
Then, I thought, I must share this will the worldww.
Here you go.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
Entity | ||||
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id | name | gender | species | detail |
10 | Abrocomas | male | human | details |
219 | Abrozelmes | male | human | details |
192 | Achaean | group | human | details |
11 | Achaeans | group | human | details |
218 | Aeetes | male | human | details |
12 | Aeneas | male | human | details |
222 | Aenianes | group | human | details |
223 | Aenianians | group | human | details |
224 | Aeschines | male | human | details |
13 | Agasias | male | human | details |
188 | Agasis | male | human | details |
15 | Agesilaus | male | human | details |
16 | Agias | male | human | details |
225 | Alcibiades | male | human | details |
206 | Aleuadae | group | human | details |
220 | Amazons | group | human | details |
19 | Ambraciot | group | human | details |
221 | Amphicrates | male | human | details |
228 | Amphidemus | male | human | details |
21 | Anaxibius | male | human | details |
227 | Anixibius | male | human | details |
231 | Antileon | male | human | details |
226 | Apollo | male | god | details |
232 | Apollonides | male | human | details |
193 | Arbaces | male | human | details |
229 | Arbacus | male | human | details |
442 | Arcadian | group | human | details |
191 | Arcadians | group | human | details |
230 | Arcaios | male | god | details |
240 | Arcarnanian | group | human | details |
235 | Archaeans | group | human | details |
22 | Archagoras | male | human | details |
233 | Arexion | male | human | details |
23 | Ariaeus | male | human | details |
234 | Aristarchus | male | human | details |
237 | Aristeas | male | human | details |
236 | Aristippus | male | human | details |
238 | Ariston | male | human | details |
241 | Aristonymous | male | human | details |
150 | Aristonymus | male | human | details |
239 | Artacamas | male | human | details |
242 | Artagerses | male | human | details |
24 | Artaozus | male | human | details |
243 | Artapates | male | human | details |
244 | Artapes | male | human | details |
245 | Artaphernes | male | human | details |
5 | Artaxerxes | male | human | details |
187 | Artemis | female | god | details |
26 | Artimas | male | human | details |
248 | Artuchas | male | human | details |
251 | Arystas | male | human | details |
246 | Asiatic | group | human | details |
27 | Asiatics | group | human | details |
247 | Asidates | male | human | details |
252 | Asinaean | male | human | details |
250 | Asniaean | male | human | details |
255 | Aspendians | group | human | details |
249 | Assyrian | group | human | details |
28 | Astyages | male | human | details |
254 | Athenian | group | human | details |
256 | Athenians | group | human | details |