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On August 17 reader verdicts joined the phenotype catalog dataset on Hugging Face as a new table, reader_verdicts. Version 5 carried 173 verdicts across 108 groups. A tap on the site now becomes a row in an open corpus.
The table is a preference label set over the catalog's generated portraits: one question per portrait, looks right or looks off. Each row records the page where the judgment was made, because what a reader has on screen shapes a likeness call.
The rows, columns and labels are open under CC BY 4.0. Each row links the portrait it judges, which anyone may fetch to inspect or evaluate the labels, and the images themselves stay with the site.
Under the hood
- Core columns: image_id, ethnic_id, verdict with its label (looks_right or looks_off), surface, rater_id, image_url, created_at, and image_generator_recorded, which marks the portraits whose generating model is stored as provenance metadata.
- surface is written once, at creation, and never rewritten, so a re-tap from another page cannot relabel where the original judgment formed. At v5 the values were ethnic_page and country_carousel; region_page and cluster_page joined about a week later.
- rater_id is a pseudonym, stable within a release so inter-rater agreement is computable, and regenerated for each release.
- The export keeps verdicts on portraits from the site's own generated catalog and leaves out any that point at an externally hosted photograph, since a crowd judgment about an identifiable real person does not belong in an open dataset.
- image_id is the stable identifier for joins. Portraits get regenerated, so an image URL is current at release while the id holds across releases.
- verdicts in v5
- 173
- groups judged
- 108
Peoples in this entry
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Related build notes
- Sep 25, 2026Voted off the page: readers now replace portraits that look offWhen a majority of readers say a portrait looks off, the site renders replacements, promotes one and says why on the page. Twenty faces changed in a day.
- Sep 7, 2026Say what looks off in one tap, then judge five portraits in placeReason chips turn a 'Looks off' tap into a labeled reason, and an inline deck lets readers rate up to five portraits without leaving the page.
- Aug 10, 2026Pose catalog v2.0 adds motion, context and a 194-row crosswalkFor 61 of 104 positions, no other machine-readable vocabulary holds a precise identifier. Pose catalog v2.0 is that record, now with motion and context.