# TCM-Ladder

License: permissive (CC-BY-4.0); Mdexa hosting: link-only. License is permissive, but source risk: questions come from copyrighted exams; content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; link only.

- Commercial use: Yes · Derivatives: Yes · Redistribution: Yes · File on Mdexa: No
- License status: Permissive (CC-BY-4.0)
- Mdexa hosting: Link only — License is permissive, but source risk: questions come from copyrighted exams; content scraped from websites whose terms are not stated; link only.
- Code repository license: Apache-2.0 (license-file, verified)
- Source risk: Exam-derived, Scraped
- Last verified: 2026-11-12
- Card: https://mdexa.com/datasets/tcm-ladder/

## Key facts

- Domain: Traditional Chinese medicine, Diagnostic methods
- Content type: Question banks and benchmarks, QA, dialogue and instruction data
- Size: 52,000 questions (claimed) (HF dataset page (52,000+)) — 数据集托管页（HF 卡）称52,000+题，同页元数据标 1K<n<10K；论文称21,326题+25,163段对话，另有图像7,455、音频6,420、视频49（两处说法不一致）
- Language: Chinese
- Modality: Text, Image, Audio, Video
- Publisher: orangeshushu（NeurIPS 2025 D&B，arXiv 2505.24063）
- Year: 2025

## Commercial use of TCM-Ladder

- Commercial use: Yes.
- License status: Permissive.
Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

## TCM-Ladder license evidence

The dataset hosting page license field (CC BY 4.0) is an explicit data statement; the differing code repository license is not a data conflict

- **Hugging Face card metadata** — CC-BY-4.0: Hugging Face dataset card: cc-by-4.0 — "license: "cc-by-4.0"" — https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder (2026-11-12; Page opened)
- **Repository license file** — Apache-2.0: GitHub repository license: Apache-2.0 — "Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004" — https://github.com/orangeshushu/TCM-Ladder (2026-11-12; Page opened)
- **Paper**: Paper page states no data license [Note: No URL recorded, so no snapshot exists] (2026-11-12; Page opened; second-hand, not verified)

## Source and lineage

5,000 items newly written by licensed TCM physicians; the rest from licensing exams and public web resources

## Known issues with TCM-Ladder

- The code repository license (Apache-2.0) differs from the data license (dataset card CC BY 4.0)
- Sources include national medical licensing exam questions; in August 2026 the National Medical Examination Center issued a statement asserting copyright over past exam questions, so there is a source copyright risk
- HF data viewer reports a parquet read error; size fields contradict each other
- Paper and dataset page disagree on size: page says 52,000+ questions (metadata 1K<n<10K); paper says 21,326 questions + 25,163 dialogues

## Preflight

Not run (data not ingested).

## Downloading TCM-Ladder and API access

Mdexa does not serve files. Original source:
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder
- https://github.com/orangeshushu/TCM-Ladder

### Access recipe

- .gitattributes · 2 KB · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/.gitattributes
- README.md · 1 KB · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/README.md
- fillInTheBlank.parquet · 368 KB · sha256 4f13f432f7bebc2d3f6ee08a712e79c07157d86220c14a88fa70b0bf5afe49d2 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/fillInTheBlank.parquet
- herbImage/herbImage.zip · 3.5 GB · sha256 daa65a993e72da20d6d621a9a787c0f41c98ce56bc7cec5b44947343c6565518 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/herbImage/herbImage.zip
- multiChoice.parquet · 930 KB · sha256 4362af0b46ec9790e933c482612360d1f594115c6344e7ceadd183b6c936701c · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/multiChoice.parquet
- video/TraditionalChineseTuinaAcupunctureVideo.zip · 601.0 MB · sha256 54f27059f17037e6f4ed9e0b52c2433f348c118122d1db76c7cb91c0fe103184 · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/video/TraditionalChineseTuinaAcupunctureVideo.zip
- visual.parquet · 730.2 MB · sha256 9f4658c62a734d812c4274bd40af6b4a9f93b141695cce9314bb1a93dac842df · https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/visual.parquet

```sh
curl -L --create-dirs -o ".gitattributes" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/.gitattributes"
curl -L --create-dirs -o "README.md" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/README.md"
curl -L --create-dirs -o "fillInTheBlank.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/fillInTheBlank.parquet"
echo "4f13f432f7bebc2d3f6ee08a712e79c07157d86220c14a88fa70b0bf5afe49d2  fillInTheBlank.parquet" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "herbImage/herbImage.zip" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/herbImage/herbImage.zip"
echo "daa65a993e72da20d6d621a9a787c0f41c98ce56bc7cec5b44947343c6565518  herbImage/herbImage.zip" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "multiChoice.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/multiChoice.parquet"
echo "4362af0b46ec9790e933c482612360d1f594115c6344e7ceadd183b6c936701c  multiChoice.parquet" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "video/TraditionalChineseTuinaAcupunctureVideo.zip" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/video/TraditionalChineseTuinaAcupunctureVideo.zip"
echo "54f27059f17037e6f4ed9e0b52c2433f348c118122d1db76c7cb91c0fe103184  video/TraditionalChineseTuinaAcupunctureVideo.zip" | sha256sum -c
curl -L --create-dirs -o "visual.parquet" "https://huggingface.co/datasets/timzzyus/TCM-Ladder/resolve/4e875657f9ff650df432427221bb4f957e30b6f0/visual.parquet"
echo "9f4658c62a734d812c4274bd40af6b4a9f93b141695cce9314bb1a93dac842df  visual.parquet" | sha256sum -c
```

## Citing TCM-Ladder

No recommended citation text.
- arXiv:2505.24063

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://mdexa.com/datasets/tcm-ladder.json
- 2026-11-13 Added specialty tags: multi-specialty(inferred).
- 2026-11-13 size.raw records both claims; structured value from the dataset page, marked claimed; size inconsistency kept in known_issues.
- 2026-11-13 Removed the stored size-tier tag; the tier is now computed from the size field when pages are built.
- 2026-11-13 Added dataset-level tags: 9 (6 stated by the authors with excerpts, 3 inferred from the content). No conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 License status changed from conflict to permissive: a repository license is not a data license; hosting-page license field counts as the data statement.
- 2026-11-12 Recorded the code repository license separately; it is not treated as a data license statement.
- 2026-11-12 Added verbatim license excerpts and snapshot ids from captured page snapshots; no conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 License status split into license_status (what the license says) and hosting (what Mdexa does); the earlier conclusion is kept for traceability.
- 2026-11-12 Card converted from an earlier manual catalog; no new facts added; reclassified under taxonomy v2.

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