YolPedia "Can Dede" is an Alevi knowledge hub: a multilingual LLM chatbot that answers questions about Alevi belief, history, and cultural traditions, grounded in a curated knowledge base rather than the model's general training data.

YolPedia Can Dede chatbot interface

The Can Dede chatbot — multilingual UI, model provider selector, and grounded answers.

What it is

Alevism is a belief and cultural tradition rooted in Anatolia. YolPedia gathers Alevi teachings into a structured knowledge base and lets anyone explore it conversationally through a friendly "Can Dede" guide. Questions are answered by retrieving the most relevant entries from the curated dataset and passing them to a large language model, so responses stay anchored to the source material (retrieval-augmented generation) instead of free-form hallucination.

How it works

The app is a Streamlit implementation of an LLM chatbot. It supports multiple model providers (Google Gemini and OpenAI), a multilingual interface, light/dark theming, and a lightweight search layer over a JSON knowledge base that feeds the most relevant context into each answer. It is deployed on Streamlit Community Cloud.

Credits

Originally created by Sinan Özcan; this is a continued and extended version building on his work — refining the LLM chatbot, adding multi-provider support and a multilingual UI. Full credit to the original author and the YolPedia project.