ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

WordNet Word Similarity Network

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A Princeton WordNet lexical database dataset of 146,005 nodes and 656,999 edges, collected by Princeton University. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: False. Semantic network of English words linked by synonymy, hypernymy, and other lexical relations from WordNet.. Suitable for natural language processing, semantic network analysis, word embedding evaluation.

#Lexical network#Linguistics#Semantic network#Wordnet

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The full graph has 146,005 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

146K
Nodes
657K
Edges
6.16e-05
Density
292
Components
-0.06232
Assortativity
0.0%
Reciprocity
12.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
225240.0069
473600.00651
1086450.00647
594720.00638
525850.00629
525840.00613
594710.00571
245520.0057
245530.00562
245540.00562

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
wordnet
Authors
Fellbaum, Christiane
Year
1998
Source paper
WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
DOI / arXiv
10.7551/mitpress/7287.001.0001
License
CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
Records
146,005
Nodes
146,005
Edges
656,999
Nodes are
word
Edges are
lexical relation
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
Languages
en
Collected
2010 (2010s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection

Provenance

Originally published at
https://konect.cc/networks/wordnet-words/ unverified
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.3 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@book{fellbaum1998wordnet,
  title     = {WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database},
  editor    = {Fellbaum, Christiane},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  year      = {1998},
  doi       = {10.7551/mitpress/7287.001.0001}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Fellbaum, C. (1998). WordNet Word Similarity Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7287.001.0001

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Fellbaum, Christiane. WordNet Word Similarity Network. 1998, doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7287.001.0001.

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