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cluster_id stringlengths 8 36	type stringclasses 3 values	moral_set listlengths 1 6	fables listlengths 1 6	n_morals int64 1 6	n_fables int64 1 6
nature_reveals	exact	[ "Nature reveals itself." ]	[ "fable_0023", "fable_0024", "fable_0593", "fable_0613" ]	1	4
appearances_deceptive	near	[ "Appearances are deceptive.", "Appearances can be deceiving." ]	[ "fable_0001", "fable_0117", "fable_0445", "fable_0697" ]	2	4
self_help	exact	[ "Self-help is the best help." ]	[ "fable_0059", "fable_0066", "fable_0138" ]	1	3
look_before_leap	exact	[ "Look before you leap." ]	[ "fable_0045", "fable_0242", "fable_0393" ]	1	3
work_and_play	exact	[ "There's a time for work and a time for play." ]	[ "fable_0002", "fable_0148" ]	1	2
neither_one_thing	near	[ "He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.", "He that has many friends, has no friends." ]	[ "fable_0013", "fable_0190", "fable_0053" ]	2	3
flatters_not_trusted	near	[ "Flatterers are not to be trusted.", "Do not trust flatterers." ]	[ "fable_0043", "fable_0620", "fable_0044", "fable_0597" ]	2	4
content_with_lot	near	[ "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.", "Be content with your lot." ]	[ "fable_0085", "fable_0270", "fable_0691", "fable_0696", "fable_0318" ]	2	5
satisfied_with_lot	singleton	[ "To be satisfied with one's lot is better than to desire something which one is not fitted to receive." ]	[ "fable_0005" ]	1	1
mind_not_place	singleton	[ "It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that is responsible for our happiness." ]	[ "fable_0419" ]	1	1
one_good_turn	exact	[ "One good turn deserves another." ]	[ "fable_0091", "fable_0151" ]	1	2
invitation_selfish	exact	[ "An invitation prompted by selfishness is not to be accepted." ]	[ "fable_0113", "fable_0180" ]	1	2
every_tale	exact	[ "Every tale is not to be believed." ]	[ "fable_0537", "fable_0621" ]	1	2
careful_wish	near	[ "Be careful what you wish for." ]	[ "fable_0278", "fable_0617", "fable_0431" ]	1	3
enemies_promises	near	[ "Enemies' promises are made to be broken." ]	[ "fable_0080", "fable_0082" ]	1	2
union_strength	near	[ "Union is strength.", "Union gives strength.", "Unity is strength, while division invites defeat.", "Unity is mankind's greatest good, while dissension is a weak and slavish thing." ]	[ "fable_0038", "fable_0511", "fable_0228", "fable_0487" ]	4	4
nothing_escapes_master	near	[ "Nothing escapes the master's eye." ]	[ "fable_0055", "fable_0348" ]	1	2
lay_trap	near	[ "Someone who lays a trap for others will fall victim to it himself.", "People who lay traps for others should be careful not to fall into a trap themselves.", "People who lay traps for others bring about their own destruction.", "Someone who plots against others falls into his own trap.", "Those who scheme ...	[ "fable_0204", "fable_0205", "fable_0317", "fable_0386", "fable_0402", "fable_0140" ]	6	6
harm_others_destroy_self	singleton	[ "People who do harm to others destroy themselves in the bargain." ]	[ "fable_0390" ]	1	1
plans_own_disadvantage	singleton	[ "People often make plans that turn out to be to their own disadvantage." ]	[ "fable_0435" ]	1	1
bad_neighbours_suffer_harm	singleton	[ "Bad neighbours are the first to suffer from the harm they would do to others." ]	[ "fable_0349" ]	1	1
greed_overreaches	near	[ "Greed often overreaches itself." ]	[ "fable_0050", "fable_0616" ]	1	2
grasp_for_more	near	[ "Do not attempt too much at once.", "Do not take on more than you can handle.", "Don't take on more than you can accomplish." ]	[ "fable_0019", "fable_0350", "fable_0508" ]	3	3
bird_in_hand	near	[ "A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect.", "Do not neglect small advantages in hopes of better ones.", "Do not trade what might come, which is uncertain, for present opportunities, which can never be regained.", "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." ]	[ "fable_0036", "fable_0403", "fable_0564", "fable_0654", "fable_0701" ]	4	5
dont_trust_wicked	near	[ "Do not believe those who have ill intentions.", "The word of a wicked man can never be trusted.", "Never trust a known deceiver.", "One should never trust those with a history of deceit.", "People with a history of wrongdoing are often not trusted.", "There is danger lurking in the words of a wicked pers...	[ "fable_0291", "fable_0531", "fable_0594", "fable_0459", "fable_0344", "fable_0297" ]	6	6
dont_trust_enemy	near	[ "Do not ever trust your enemy. Always protect yourself from him, even if he comes to you humble and supplicating.", "We should never put our trust in a wicked man, even if he seems to be completely innocuous." ]	[ "fable_0121", "fable_0420", "fable_0405" ]	2	3
deceptive_words_trouble	singleton	[ "Don't be seduced by deceptive words, they will cause nothing but trouble." ]	[ "fable_0261" ]	1	1
beware_swindlers	singleton	[ "Beware of swindlers, as they often exploit the gullibility of others." ]	[ "fable_0255" ]	1	1
believing_enemies_trouble	singleton	[ "Believing your enemies makes you fall victim to their tricks and gets you into trouble." ]	[ "fable_0229" ]	1	1
ungrateful_wicked	near	[ "The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.", "No gratitude from the wicked.", "Expect no reward for serving the wicked." ]	[ "fable_0034", "fable_0118", "fable_0182" ]	3	3
gratitude_kindness_not_harm	singleton	[ "Gratitude should be shown through kindness, not harm." ]	[ "fable_0139" ]	1	1
please_nobody	near	[ "Try to please all and you end by pleasing none.", "Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.", "You can't please everybody." ]	[ "fable_0078", "fable_0187", "fable_0277" ]	3	3
beware_powerful	exact	[ "Beware of when the powerful and the deceitful collaborate." ]	[ "fable_0236", "fable_0274" ]	1	2
wit_answer	near	[ "Wit always has an answer ready." ]	[ "fable_0009", "fable_0071" ]	1	2
be_yourself	near	[ "Be yourself and don't pretend to be someone you're not.", "Do not be what you are not, nor pretend to be what you are not." ]	[ "fable_0485", "fable_0507", "fable_0530" ]	2	3
dont_act_against_nature	singleton	[ "Do not try to gain favor by acting in a way that is contrary to your own nature and character." ]	[ "fable_0294" ]	1	1
dont_deceive_yourself	singleton	[ "Don't deceive yourself." ]	[ "fable_0571" ]	1	1
innate_nature_unchangeable	near	[ "Men often revert to their natural instincts.", "Change of habit cannot alter nature." ]	[ "fable_0028", "fable_0088" ]	2	2
some_things_cannot_change	exact	[ "Some things you cannot change." ]	[ "fable_0120", "fable_0158" ]	1	2
singleton_0141	singleton	[ "Changing your location does not change your state of mind." ]	[ "fable_0141" ]	1	1
singleton_0224	singleton	[ "Some people just won't change." ]	[ "fable_0224" ]	1	1
same_worse_off	near	[ "There is always someone worse off than yourself.", "There is always someone else worse off than you." ]	[ "fable_0052", "fable_0122" ]	2	2
master_own_fate	exact	[ "Everyone is more or less master of his own fate." ]	[ "fable_0103", "fable_0568" ]	1	2
dont_mock_gods	exact	[ "Do not mock the gods." ]	[ "fable_0156", "fable_0223" ]	1	2
true_friends_hard	near	[ "True friends are hard to find.", "True friends are hard to come by." ]	[ "fable_0173", "fable_0694" ]	2	2
greed_misery	exact	[ "A life of greed and hoarding wealth leads to misery." ]	[ "fable_0333", "fable_0707", "fable_0305" ]	1	3
luxuries_lead_to_peril	singleton	[ "Indulgence in luxuries can lead to peril." ]	[ "fable_0516" ]	1	1
laughs_last	exact	[ "He laughs best that laughs last." ]	[ "fable_0057", "fable_0498" ]	1	2
no_wealth_liberty	near	[ "There is no wealth greater than liberty.", "There is nothing more valuable than liberty." ]	[ "fable_0505", "fable_0658", "fable_0547" ]	2	3
old_friends	near	[ "Old friends should not be sacrificed for new ones.", "Do not neglect the loyalty of old friends to please new acquaintances." ]	[ "fable_0049", "fable_0595" ]	2	2
friends_vs_foes	near	[ "Do not give up friends for foes.", "Don't take your friends for foes." ]	[ "fable_0312", "fable_0194" ]	2	2
deeds_not_words	near	[ "One is known by deeds, not by words.", "Pay attention to deeds, not words." ]	[ "fable_0499", "fable_0534" ]	2	2
not_judged_appearance	near	[ "People are to be judged by their actions, not by their appearance.", "True worth should be measured by character and deeds, not by outward appearances.", "Don't judge character by appearance." ]	[ "fable_0677", "fable_0685", "fable_0659", "fable_0546" ]	3	4
those_adapt	exact	[ "Those who adapt to the times will emerge unscathed." ]	[ "fable_0522", "fable_0708" ]	1	2
obscurity_safety	near	[ "Obscurity often brings safety.", "Humble commonalty easily finds safety in obscurity." ]	[ "fable_0105", "fable_0549" ]	2	2
what_you_do	near	[ "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.", "What you have done to others will likewise be done to you, according to the same measure.", "The things that a person does to others will happen to him in turn." ]	[ "fable_0042", "fable_0216", "fable_0395" ]	3	3
vices_punishment	near	[ "Vices are their own punishment.", "Seek to harm and harm shall find you.", "Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost." ]	[ "fable_0010", "fable_0116", "fable_0197" ]	3	3
promises_quick	near	[ "People are quick to promise but reluctant to give.", "People are often quick to make promises, but they do not really expect to have to fulfill them." ]	[ "fable_0320", "fable_0521" ]	2	2
promises_cant_deliver	near	[ "People often make extravagant promises which they are completely unable to carry out.", "Don't promise big things if you can't deliver.", "Don't promise more than you can deliver." ]	[ "fable_0480", "fable_0413", "fable_0662" ]	3	3
destroy_seed_evil	exact	[ "Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin." ]	[ "fable_0098", "fable_0611" ]	1	2
useless_insensible	exact	[ "It is useless attacking the insensible." ]	[ "fable_0092", "fable_0245" ]	1	2
dont_count_chickens	near	[ "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.", "Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.", "Expectations can lead to disappointment when reality does not match our desires." ]	[ "fable_0077", "fable_0334", "fable_0185" ]	3	3
poor_life_safer	near	[ "There is little risk in being poor, while being rich can get you into trouble.", "A humble life free from danger is more valuable than a life of luxury filled with peril.", "The life of the poor is often safer than the life of the rich." ]	[ "fable_0447", "fable_0592", "fable_0631" ]	3	3
singleton_0165	singleton	[ "A wicked nature does not produce a good character." ]	[ "fable_0165" ]	1	1
singleton_0198	singleton	[ "No piece of luck can conceal a depraved nature." ]	[ "fable_0198" ]	1	1
singleton_0463	singleton	[ "A change of place does not make you a saint." ]	[ "fable_0463" ]	1	1
singleton_0094	singleton	[ "There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth." ]	[ "fable_0094" ]	1	1
singleton_0565	singleton	[ "Don't be greedy." ]	[ "fable_0565" ]	1	1
singleton_0095	singleton	[ "A liar deceives no one but himself." ]	[ "fable_0095" ]	1	1
singleton_0301	singleton	[ "Wicked liars generally get their just consequences." ]	[ "fable_0301" ]	1	1
singleton_0410	singleton	[ "When you lie, you often have to expand the lie." ]	[ "fable_0410" ]	1	1
singleton_0355	singleton	[ "When wicked people do not get the reward and thanks they expect, they immediately put a stop to their good works." ]	[ "fable_0355" ]	1	1
singleton_0000	singleton	[ "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." ]	[ "fable_0000" ]	1	1
singleton_0003	singleton	[ "In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance." ]	[ "fable_0003" ]	1	1
singleton_0004	singleton	[ "Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes." ]	[ "fable_0004" ]	1	1
singleton_0006	singleton	[ "Clumsy jesting is no joke." ]	[ "fable_0006" ]	1	1
singleton_0007	singleton	[ "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." ]	[ "fable_0007" ]	1	1
singleton_0011	singleton	[ "It's good to be able to laugh at yourself." ]	[ "fable_0011" ]	1	1
singleton_0012	singleton	[ "You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies." ]	[ "fable_0012" ]	1	1
singleton_0015	singleton	[ "It is easy to propose impossible remedies." ]	[ "fable_0015" ]	1	1
singleton_0016	singleton	[ "Each member in his proper sphere must work for the common good." ]	[ "fable_0016" ]	1	1
singleton_0017	singleton	[ "Necessity knows no law." ]	[ "fable_0017" ]	1	1
singleton_0018	singleton	[ "Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance." ]	[ "fable_0018" ]	1	1
singleton_0020	singleton	[ "One man's pleasure may be another's pain." ]	[ "fable_0020" ]	1	1
singleton_0021	singleton	[ "Whatever you do, do with all your might." ]	[ "fable_0021" ]	1	1
singleton_0022	singleton	[ "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing." ]	[ "fable_0022" ]	1	1
singleton_0025	singleton	[ "He who is once deceived is doubly cautious." ]	[ "fable_0025" ]	1	1
singleton_0029	singleton	[ "Those who enter by the back stairs may expect to be shown out at the window." ]	[ "fable_0029" ]	1	1
singleton_0031	singleton	[ "He who covets what belongs to another, deservedly loses his own." ]	[ "fable_0031" ]	1	1
singleton_0032	singleton	[ "How often do we supply our enemies with the means of our own destruction." ]	[ "fable_0032" ]	1	1
singleton_0033	singleton	[ "If words suffice not, blows must follow." ]	[ "fable_0033" ]	1	1
singleton_0037	singleton	[ "To do the right thing at the right season is a great art." ]	[ "fable_0037" ]	1	1
singleton_0039	singleton	[ "It is foolish to expect help from someone who is naturally unkind." ]	[ "fable_0039" ]	1	1
singleton_0040	singleton	[ "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon." ]	[ "fable_0040" ]	1	1
singleton_0041	singleton	[ "Cunning often outwits itself." ]	[ "fable_0041" ]	1	1
singleton_0047	singleton	[ "There is as much malice in a wink as in a word." ]	[ "fable_0047" ]	1	1
singleton_0048	singleton	[ "Better no rule than cruel rule." ]	[ "fable_0048" ]	1	1
singleton_0051	singleton	[ "Necessity is our strongest weapon." ]	[ "fable_0051" ]	1	1
singleton_0054	singleton	[ "We often despise what is most useful to us." ]	[ "fable_0054" ]	1	1
singleton_0056	singleton	[ "Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease." ]	[ "fable_0056" ]	1	1

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MoraLink

MoraLink is a moral-to-fable retrieval benchmark. Given a short moral lesson, a retrieval system must rank the fables that express that lesson.

Paper: MoraLink: Bridging Morals and Narrative Fables for Retrieval, EMNLP 2026
Code and reproduction instructions: Intellexus-DSI/MoraLink

MoraLink is derived from the English MORABLES dataset and contains:

709 fables
668 unique moral queries
558 moral groups
1,085 query-to-fable relevance labels

Some moral queries have one relevant fable and others have several. The benchmark therefore uses multi-positive relevance labels.

Main files

Benchmark data

data/fables.json: The 709 fable documents. Each row contains doc_id, title, text, and the original MORABLES alias.
data/queries.json: The 668 moral queries. Each row contains the query text, moral-group information, and relevant fable IDs.
data/qrels.json: The 1,085 query-to-fable relevance labels used for evaluation.
data/clusters.json: The final 558 moral groups.
data/moral_to_cluster.json: The mapping from original moral records to the final moral groups.

Generated summaries

The summaries/ directory contains the four frozen 709-fable summary collections used in the MoraLink experiments:

Gemini 3 Flash
Gemma 4 E2B
Gemma 4 E4B
Gemma 4 31B

Each summary file contains the prompt variants generated for every fable. The exact prompts, model identifiers, generation settings, file hashes, and experiment mapping are in metadata/summary-prompts.json and metadata/summary-manifest.json.

The Gemini file preserves one API error placeholder for gibbs_137_584. This is intentional because the reported experiments used that frozen file. See the manifest for details.

Annotation records

The annotation/ directory contains the moral-grouping protocol, the surviving accepted and rejected decisions, the 23 documented moral-text edits, and the original-annotator confirmations used to finalize the release.

Rankings and analysis files

rankings/manifest.json: public metadata for the 144 official zero-shot runs.
rankings/*.json: compact top-10 rankings for all 144 runs.
analysis/per_query_paper_metrics.csv.gz: 96,192 per-query metric rows used to reproduce the paper-compatible MRR and the one-versus-several analysis.
analysis/word_overlap_rank_changes.csv.gz: 106,212 per-query rows used to reproduce the 159 query-summary word-overlap comparisons.

The compact rankings do not include every document below rank 10. The per-query paper-metric file stores the reciprocal-rank contribution needed when the first relevant fable is below rank 10.

Loading the data

from datasets import load_dataset

fables = load_dataset("Intellexus/MoraLink", "fables", split="test")
queries = load_dataset("Intellexus/MoraLink", "queries", split="test")
qrels = load_dataset("Intellexus/MoraLink", "qrels", split="test")
summaries = load_dataset(
    "Intellexus/MoraLink",
    "summaries-gemini-3-flash",
    split="test",
)

The generated-summary files use the original MORABLES alias in original_fable_id. Join this field with the alias field in the fable collection.

Reproducibility

All released files are frozen copies of the files used in the reported experiments. FILE_HASHES.sha256 contains a SHA-256 hash for every released file.

The release was validated as four summary collections with 709 rows each, 144 compact rankings with 668 queries each, and 558 moral groups, including 469 singleton groups and 89 groups with several fables. There are no unresolved annotation records.

License and source

MoraLink is derived from MORABLES and follows its CC BY-NC 4.0 license. See LICENSE.md and NOTICE.md for the full reuse conditions, source attribution, and generator information.

Generated summaries may also be subject to the terms of the named model or service provider.

Scope

MoraLink studies English-language Western fable traditions represented in MORABLES. It should not be treated as a general benchmark of moral reasoning across languages or cultures.

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