VillainScope: A Dataset of Villain Characters in Narrative Media

VillainScope is a semantic web knowledge graph project that collects and analyzes characteristics of villain characters across multiple media formats. The dataset is designed to support distant reading analysis and Graph RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications. Key Features 🎭 206 Villain Characters from books, animations, movies, and TV dramas 🔗 Wikidata Integration for enriched entity information 📊 575 Unique Personality Traits with categorization 🌐 Interactive Web Visualization with network graph Dataset Attributes Attribute Description Title Title of the work Name Name of the villain Genre Genre of the work Age Age of the villain Characteristics Four characteristics of the villain (Appearance, Personality, Ability, Occupation) Image Image of the villain (via Wikidata) RDF Data Structure (v2.0) Villain Entity Each villain is modeled with the following properties: villain:villain_001 a villain:Villain, schema:Person, foaf:Person ; # Basic Information schema:name "Joker" ; schema:gender "Male" ; schema:age 35 ; villain:ethnicity "American" ; # Appearance villain:facialFeatures "White face, red lips" ; villain:hairDescription "Green hair" ; villain:distinctiveFeatures "Permanent smile scars" ; # Personality (linked to trait entities) villain:hasPersonalityTrait trait:Psychopath ; villain:hasPersonalityTrait trait:Cunning ; villain:personalityDetails "Psychopath: Enjoys chaos..." ; # Abilities villain:abilities "Chemical expertise; Master manipulator" ; villain:hasAbility ability:Chemical_expertise ; # Occupation villain:occupation "Criminal mastermind" ; # Work Connection villain:appearsIn work:work_001 ; # Wikidata Linking owl:sameAs wd:Q12345 ; villain:wikidataEntity wd:Q12345 ; villain:wikidataLabel "Joker"@en ; villain:wikidataDescription "fictional supervillain"@en . Work Entity work:work_001 a villain:CreativeWork, schema:CreativeWork ; schema:name "The Dark Knight" ; schema:genre "Action · Thriller" ; villain:mediaType "movie-drama" ; villain:hasCharacter villain:villain_001 .