brandburner/westwing-mega-narrative-kg

The West Wing - Narrative Knowledge Graph

A rich narrative knowledge graph extracted from The West Wing screenplays using the Fabula pipeline. Contains characters, locations, objects, organizations, events, themes, and conflict arcs with full participation semantics and Graph Gravity importance tiers.

Dataset Overview

Metric	Value
Source database	westwing.mega
Type	Megagraph (cross-season merged)
Episodes	89
Seasons merged	1, 2, 3, 4
Total nodes	24,246
Total edges	62,796
Schema version	1.1.0
Exported	2026-02-24

Entity Breakdown

Type	Count
Act	404
Agent	2,132
ConflictArc	357
Episode	89
Event	3,303
Location	1,589
Object	2,939
Organization	1,347
PlotBeat	9,689
SceneBoundary	2,141
Theme	227
Writer	29

Graph Gravity Tiers

Tier	Count	Description
anchor	185	Main characters / key locations
planet	865	Recurring entities
asteroid	6,957	Minor / one-off entities

Relationship Types

AFFILIATED_WITH, BELONGS_TO_EPISODE, CALLBACK, CAUSAL, CHARACTER_CONTINUITY, CONTAINS_BEAT, CREDITED_ON, EMOTIONAL_ECHO, ESCALATION, EXEMPLIFIES_THEME, FORESHADOWING, INVOLVED_IN_ARC, INVOLVED_WITH, IN_EVENT, NARRATIVELY_FOLLOWS, OCCURS_IN, OWNS, PARTICIPATED_AS, PART_OF, PART_OF_ACT ... and 6 more

Files

File	Description
nodes.parquet	All graph nodes with properties
edges.parquet	All relationships with properties
positions.parquet	3D layout coordinates for visualization
meta.json	Dataset metadata and entity counts

Schema

Nodes (nodes.parquet)

Column	Type	Description
node_id	string	Unique node identifier (UUID)
primary_label	string	Node type (Agent, Location, Event, etc.)
name	string	Display name
description	string	Foundational description
tier	string (nullable)	Graph Gravity tier: anchor / planet / asteroid
episode_count	int (nullable)	Number of distinct episodes entity appears in
first_episode_seq	int (nullable)	First appearance episode
last_episode_seq	int (nullable)	Last appearance episode
properties_json	string	Full node properties as JSON

Edges (edges.parquet)

Column	Type	Description
source_node_id	string	Source node UUID
target_node_id	string	Target node UUID
relationship_type	string	Relationship type (e.g., PARTICIPATED_AS)
properties_json	string	Edge properties as JSON

Positions (positions.parquet)

Column	Type	Description
node_id	string	Node UUID
x, y, z	float	3D coordinates
size	float	Node size (Graph Gravity weighted)
r, g, b	int	RGB color by entity type
community	int	Louvain community index
tier	string (nullable)	Graph Gravity tier

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
import pandas as pd

# Load from HuggingFace
ds = load_dataset("brandburner/westwing-mega-narrative-kg")

# Or load parquet directly
nodes = pd.read_parquet("nodes.parquet")
edges = pd.read_parquet("edges.parquet")

# Filter to anchor characters
anchors = nodes[(nodes['primary_label'] == 'Agent') & (nodes['tier'] == 'anchor')]

# Build a NetworkX graph
import networkx as nx
G = nx.DiGraph()
for _, n in nodes.iterrows():
    G.add_node(n['node_id'], label=n['primary_label'], name=n['name'])
for _, e in edges.iterrows():
    G.add_edge(e['source_node_id'], e['target_node_id'], type=e['relationship_type'])

Citation

@misc{fabula_westwing_mega,
  title = {The West Wing Narrative Knowledge Graph},
  author = {Fabula Pipeline},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {HuggingFace},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/brandburner/westwing-mega-narrative-kg}}
}

License

CC BY-SA 4.0