# CMU Movie Summary Corpus

- id: src_01M569C5YTBC4ZAVJEZ234H3GF
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T01 · tags: level:established, dataset, plots, characters
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:17:47.339Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569C5YTBC4ZAVJEZ234H3GF

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

```json
{
  "archived": null,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "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",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Bamman, O'Connor, Smith (CMU)",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Wikipedia-derived summaries, English-centric; Freebase metadata is frozen."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": null
}
```

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: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/personas
- [upstream_claim] Page states all data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. · locator: page text · source: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/personas
- [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:
- dataset: license=CC-BY-SA hosting=permitted redistribution=restricted modification=permitted training=unknown · Page names a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license without a version; summaries derive from Wikipedia. Training-use implications of share-alike were not assessed. · evidence: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/personas

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