HESEIA: A community-based dataset for evaluating social biases in large language models, co-designed in real school settings in Latin America

Guido Ivetta, Marcos J. Gomez, Sofía Martinelli, Pietro Palombini, M. Emilia Echeveste +3 more
5/30/2025
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Most resources for evaluating social biases in Large Language Models are developed without co-design from the communities affected by these biases, and rarely involve participatory approaches. We introduce HESEIA, a dataset of 46,499 sentences created in a professional development course. The course involved 370 high-school teachers and 5,370 students from 189 Latin-American schools. Unlike existing benchmarks, HESEIA captures intersectional biases across multiple demographic axes and school subjects. It reflects local contexts through the lived experience and pedagogical expertise of educators. Teachers used minimal pairs to create sentences that express stereotypes relevant to their school subjects and communities. We show the dataset diversity in term of demographic axes represented and also in terms of the knowledge areas included. We demonstrate that the dataset contains more stereotypes unrecognized by current LLMs than previous datasets. HESEIA is available to support bias assessments grounded in educational communities.

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@article{ivetta2025heseia,
  title  = {HESEIA: A community-based dataset for evaluating social biases in large language models, co-designed in real school settings in Latin America},
  author = {Guido Ivetta and Marcos J. Gomez and Sofía Martinelli and Pietro Palombini and M. Emilia Echeveste and Nair Carolina Mazzeo and Beatriz Busaniche and Luciana Benotti},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2505.24712},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24712v1}
}

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