gistfile1.txt

\begin{filecontents*}{mydata.dat}
x                      y     label
-1.05731886163643 -1.72501587731521 \%
-2.78577238404846 -0.843765364632213 \textbackslash
3.72026508875381 -1.22034965712686 @
0.00465397081060324 0.723899078670965 a
0.118172186120475 3.06523182040332 b
\end{filecontents*}

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}	
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
hide axis,
nodes near coords,
nodes near coords align=center,
point meta=explicit symbolic
]
\addplot [no markers, draw=none] table[meta=label]{mydata.dat};

\end{axis}

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}