---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
tags:
  - marvel
  - wikitext
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
---

# EDITH Marvel corpus

202,171 cleaned records - characters, teams, locations, items, events, comics -
derived from Marvel Database (marvel.fandom.com) and English Wikipedia, crawled
2026-09-04 via the MediaWiki API.

Used by **https://github.com/Tomionkkas/edith** for two things: training the
EDITH model, and building the BM25 retrieval index the terminal answers from.
The index is not distributed - it is a pickle, unpickling executes arbitrary
code, and it rebuilds from this corpus in about thirty seconds.

## Shape

Each record is two layers. Schema lines above - `Page:`, `Created by:`,
`First appearance:`, `Real name:`, `Codename:`, `Kind:`, `Reality:` - and prose
below, under `History:`. The retrieval system reads the first half; the model
was trained on both.

Alternate continuities carry their reality in the headline:
`Doctor Strange (Earth-199999)` against a plain `Doctor Strange`, which is
Earth-616, the unmarked default.

## Known defects, measured

- ~2.7% headline collisions where the source page states no reality
- `;` inside `[[links]]` splits a field (~0.07% of records)
- 25 malformed `Reality:` lists
- 34 records open on a bare pronoun

## License

CC BY-SA 4.0, **inherited not chosen**: both sources are CC BY-SA and this
corpus stores their prose close to verbatim. Redistribute it, or anything
derived from it, under the same terms and with credit to Marvel Database and
Wikipedia.

## Disclaimer

EDITH is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or
sponsored by Marvel Entertainment, LLC or The Walt Disney Company.