Killings dataset gaps

I've just tried to use the killings dataset to find those who died between the exodus and conquest. The search strings I used was "Label:Killing". I did not find some of the killings that I expected, so I put it into a Visual Filter. Sure enough, the deaths of Nadab & Abihu in Lev 10, and Korah et al in Num 16, are not labelled. Those are rather obvious omissions. Could there be others missing?

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NichtnurBibelleser

Verbum, German UI and datasets. The label search works for me:

But as you said, Lev 10 and Num 16 don't appear.

MJ. Smith

I went to the source for a definition:

This dataset annotates occurrences of a killing or killings as found in the text of the Old Testament (including deuterocanonical books) and New Testament. The text includes not just intentional homicides or murder, as would be expected, but also any killing that occurred in battle, by divine punishment, at the behest of authorities (namely, capital punishment), by suicide, and through involuntary manslaughter. Also included are descriptions of killings as found in the parables of Jesus in the Gospels, and any references or mentions of past killings.
Isaiah Hoogendyk, All the Killings in the Bible, Faithlife Biblical and Theological Lists (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2021).

which, in fact, does not include the two chapters. So, I went to the text where I see that they went down alive in Sheol which I suspect explains why Num 16 is not included

This dataset annotates occurrences of a killing or killings as found in the text of the Old Testament (including deuterocanonical books) and New Testament. The text includes not just intentional homicides or murder, as would be expected, but also any killing that occurred in battle, by divine punishment, at the behest of authorities (namely, capital punishment), by suicide, and through involuntary manslaughter. Also included are descriptions of killings as found in the parables of Jesus in the Gospels, and any references or mentions of past killings.
Isaiah Hoogendyk, All the Killings in the Bible, Faithlife Biblical and Theological Lists (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2021).

It is tagged as a miracle: miracle:(agent:person:Moses AND patient:person:"Abiram (son of Eliab)" AND patient:person:Dathan AND patient:person:"Korah (son of Izhar)" AND patient:person:"Rebels with Korah" AND patient:person:"On (son of Peleth)" AND title:topic:"The Ground Opens Beneath Korah and His Followers" AND type:Judgment)

Lev 10 is a bit harder to explain but I suspect the logic was that it is a miracle rather than a conventional killing provides the rationale.

The documentation should be amended so that the reason of omission is obvious as "divine punishment" to me implies inclusion at least of Num 16. Unfortunately, I don't read Hebrew to see if some quirk in the original language accounts for the omission.