Ponys.ai Audited Multilingual AI Character Catalog v1.0.0

Versioned multilingual research catalog of audited Ponys.ai character pages for reproducible AI companion discovery and localization studies. The release contains 104 records with stable character slugs, canonical URLs, language and market labels, content categories, and validation metadata. Coverage emphasizes Japanese, Korean, Spanish for Latin America, Portuguese for Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English. Included formats are CSV, JSON, MLCommons Croissant metadata, a data dictionary, checksums, and CC BY 4.0 licensing. Intended uses include multilingual retrieval evaluation, localization QA, character taxonomy research, benchmark construction, and feed or widget integration. Source records were validated against public Ponys.ai pages before release.