# Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus

- id: src_01M569C67DAE3BJ9K1WRG6GQ4J
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
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- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T01 · tags: level:established, dataset, dialogue, scripts
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:17:47.614Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569C67DAE3BJ9K1WRG6GQ4J

Source: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html

```json
{
  "archived": null,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "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",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Lee (Cornell)",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Underlying scripts are third-party copyrighted works; rights for training or redistribution unclear."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": null
}
```

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: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html
- [sourced_fact] The same data is distributed in ConvoKit (MIT-licensed toolkit). · locator: repository README / metadata · source: https://github.com/CornellNLP/ConvoKit
- [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=unknown hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · Dialogue derives from copyrighted movie scripts; the page read states no dataset license. Rights unresolved. · evidence: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html

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