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title: Bot knowledge, data sets & sources
description: Learn to build your GPT bot's knowledge base. This guide explains datasets and sources and shows you how to create your first one from a webpage or file.
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# Bot knowledge, data sets & sources

## Learn the difference between a dataset (a folder) and a source (a file). This guide shows you how to create your first dataset by adding sources like a scraped webpage or an uploaded file.

This is where you add all the information that your GPT-bot will use to answer questions. Your information can be added in several different ways, such as scraping your website, or adding a Word document or CSV file.

**Data sets**  
Think of a data set like a folder for your bot's information. The bot can only use one data set at a time, but each data set can hold information from multiple sources.

**Sources**  
Sources are the individual files containing your information. Uploading two Word documents creates two sources. Scraping your website creates another source. You can add as many sources as needed to a single data set.

> We split **data sets** and **sources** into different groups for two main reasons.
> 
> **First**, it can help EbbotGPT do its job better. Imagine EbbotGPT is a librarian.  If all the books are jumbled together, it might take longer to find the right one.  By separating the information into clear sections (like fiction and non-fiction), EbbotGPT can find what you need faster.
> 
> **Second**, splitting data lets us tailor information to different users.  Think of online stores.  A store might have separate sections for things you buy for yourself (B2C) and things you buy for a business (B2B).  Similarly, we can split data sets so different "bots" can use the information that's most relevant to their users.

**Create your first data set**   
Start by pressing 'create new' in the top right corner.

Name your data set:

![](https://customer.ebbot.ai/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/1698671237943-Nt0-1.png)

 

Select if you want to add new sources, use existing or start by creating a data set without sources (your data set will need sources sooner or later to work).

![](https://customer.ebbot.ai/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/1712147898546-Y54-1.png)

 

Choose if you want to scrape a webpage or upload an file (csv, json) as a data set, in this example we're scraping a webpage:

![](https://customer.ebbot.ai/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/1698671682487-cmM-1.png)

 

You can add several sources if you want, one scraped webpage and a Word document works fine! 👌

Next step is to choose an embedder, we recommend using the default embedder if nothing else has been agreed on from Ebbot, this will give you a solid GPT-model to create magic with!  
![](https://customer.ebbot.ai/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/1698672095193-3fk-1.png)

After this, the scraping/uploading begins and we're done with our sources.

 

 

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