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CMU Movie Summary Corpus

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Source: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/personas

Structured fields

{
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "usefulness": "42,306 movie plot summaries with metadata (genre, characters, actor info); useful for plot-summary modeling, genre/archetype analysis and as an evaluation seed set.",
  "source_type": "dataset",
  "availability": "available",
  "source_owner": "Bamman, O'Connor, Smith (CMU)",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "known_limitations": [
    "Wikipedia-derived summaries, English-centric; Freebase metadata is frozen."
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Page: 42,306 movie plot summaries from Wikipedia aligned to Freebase metadata; CoreNLP-processed supplement; cite Bamman et al. ACL 2013. · locator: page text source
[upstream_claim] Page states all data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. · locator: page text source
[upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
dataset	CC-BY-SA	permitted	restricted	permitted	unknown	https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/personas Page names a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license without a version; summaries derive from Wikipedia. Training-use implications of share-alike were not assessed.

Linked records

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