# Hierarchical Neural Story Generation (WritingPrompts dataset)

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- categories: T01 · tags: level:established, dataset, prompt-to-story
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:17:48.010Z
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04833

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  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "Introduced WritingPrompts (300K human stories paired with prompts) and premise-then-passage generation; still the most-cited public prompt-to-story dataset.",
  "source_type": "paper",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Fan, Lewis, Dauphin (Facebook AI Research)",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Reddit-sourced; consent/licensing of contributed stories not documented in the pages read."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": null
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Abstract: dataset of 300K human-written stories paired with writing prompts from an online forum; hierarchical generation from premise to passage. · locator: arXiv abstract page · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04833
- [sourced_fact] fairseq examples/stories README provides the dataset download; the fairseq repository is archived (read-only since 2026-03-20). · locator: page text · source: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/stories
- [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 · Stories are user-generated Reddit content; no dataset license located on the page read. · evidence: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/stories

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