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PeaCoK: Persona Commonsense Knowledge for Consistent and Engaging Narratives

arXiv 2305.02364 ↗First posted 3 May 2023cs.CLcited by 19

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Abstract (arXiv)

Sustaining coherent and engaging narratives requires dialogue or storytelling agents to understand how the personas of speakers or listeners ground the narrative. Specifically, these agents must infer personas of their listeners to produce statements that cater to their interests. They must also learn to maintain consistent speaker personas for themselves throughout the narrative, so that their counterparts feel involved in a realistic conversation or story. However, personas are diverse and complex: they entail large quantities of rich interconnected world knowledge that is challenging to robustly represent in general narrative systems (e.g., a singer is good at singing, and may have attended conservatoire). In this work, we construct a new large-scale persona commonsense knowledge graph, PeaCoK, containing ~100K human-validated persona facts. Our knowledge graph schematizes five dimensions of persona knowledge identified in previous studies of human interactive behaviours, and distils facts in this schema from both existing commonsense knowledge graphs and large-scale pretrained language models. Our analysis indicates that PeaCoK contains rich and precise world persona inferences that help downstream systems generate more consistent and engaging narratives.

Key facts. Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 33 of its 54 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 May 2023.

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  2. 2024Plurals: A System for Guiding LLMs Via Simulated Social Ensemblescited by 17
  3. 2023How Far Are LLMs from Believable AI? A Benchmark for Evaluating the Believability of Human Behavior Simulationcited by 11
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  5. 2024A Multi-Task Role-Playing Agent Capable of Imitating Character Linguistic Stylescited by 6
  6. 2025Talk Less, Call Right: Enhancing Role-Play LLM Agents with Automatic Prompt Optimization and Role Promptingcited by 4
  7. 2024ComperDial: Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Dataset and Benchmarkcited by 3
  8. 2024Using Natural Language Inference to Improve Persona Extraction from Dialogue in a New Domaincited by 2
  9. 2024DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusioncited by 2
  10. 2023Dialogue Agents 101: A Beginner's Guide to Critical Ingredients for Designing Effective Conversational Systemscited by 1
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  12. 2025Model Fusion with Multi-LoRA Inference for Tool-Enhanced Game Dialogue Agentscited by 1
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  4. 2025Efficient Tool-Calling Multi-Expert NPC Agent for Commonsense Persona-Grounded Dialoguecited by 0
  5. 2026An Annotation Scheme and Classifier for Personal Facts in Dialoguecited by 0
  6. 2026StoryMI: Steerable Multi-Agent Therapeutic Dialogue Generationcited by 0
  7. 2026HyPE: Category-Aware Hypergraph Encoding with Persistent Edge Embeddings for Persona-Grounded Dialoguecited by 0