Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus
Source: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html
Structured fields
{
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "Metadata-rich corpus of fictional conversations from raw movie scripts (220,579 exchanges, 617 movies); standard dataset for dialogue style and character-pair analysis.",
"source_type": "dataset",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lee (Cornell)",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
"known_limitations": [
"Underlying scripts are third-party copyrighted works; rights for training or redistribution unclear."
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Page: 220,579 conversational exchanges between 10,292 pairs of characters, 9,035 characters, 617 movies, 304,713 utterances, with genre/year/IMDB metadata. · locator: page text source
- [sourced_fact] The same data is distributed in ConvoKit (MIT-licensed toolkit). · locator: repository README / metadata 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 | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Dialogue derives from copyrighted movie scripts; the page read states no dataset license. Rights unresolved. |