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TCM-Ladder

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Commercial use
Yes
Derivatives
Yes
Redistribution
Yes
File on Mdexa
NoLink only

The dataset hosting page license field (CC BY 4.0) is an explicit data statement

PermissiveLink onlyCC-BY-4.0Save

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Cite this pageMdexa, TCM-Ladder, https://mdexa.com/datasets/tcm-ladder/, verified 2026-11-12.

Source riskExam-derivedScraped

Key facts

Domain
Traditional Chinese medicine · Diagnostic methods Traditional medicine
Content
Question banks and benchmarks · QA, dialogue and instruction dataMultimodal question bank and benchmark
Size
  • 52,000 questions (claimed)HF dataset page (52,000+)
As stated: 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 / modality
Chinese / Text · Image · Audio · Video
Publisher
orangeshushu (NeurIPS 2025 D&B, arXiv 2505.24063)
Year
2025
Expert review
Hand-written items verified by two other TCM physicians
Verification
Verified: license text seen

Commercial use of TCM-Ladder

Commercial use: Yes. License status: Permissive.

Quoted statements and their sources are in TCM-Ladder license evidence.

Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

Tags

Task format
Multiple-choice (single answer)

Quoted from the sourcenual filtering processes and comprise 52,000+ questions in total. These questions include single-choice, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, diagnostic dialogue, and visual comprehension tasks.Snapshot s01

Multiple-answer choice

Quoted from the sourcenual filtering processes and comprise 52,000+ questions in total. These questions include single-choice, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, diagnostic dialogue, and visual comprehension tasks.Snapshot s01

Fill-in-the-blank

Quoted from the sourceprise 52,000+ questions in total. These questions include single-choice, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, diagnostic dialogue, and visual comprehension tasks.Snapshot s01

Multi-turn dialogue

Quoted from the sourceions in total. These questions include single-choice, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, diagnostic dialogue, and visual comprehension tasks.Snapshot s01

Visual QA

Quoted from the sourcetions include single-choice, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, diagnostic dialogue, and visual comprehension tasks.Snapshot s01

Intended use
Evaluation

Quoted from the sourceTCM-Ladder is the first multimodal QA dataset specifically designed for evaluating large TCM language models. The dataset spans multiple core disciplines of TCM, including fundamental theory, diagnoSnapshot s01

Specialty
Multi-specialty
Source type
Expert-writtenhandwritten subset
Expert involvement
Per-item reviewhandwritten subset

Author-statedInferredHuman-confirmed

TCM-Ladder license evidence 3

The differing code repository license is not a data conflict

Code repository license: Apache-2.0. This licenses the repository, not the data. LICENSE file · verified s04

  1. Hugging Face card metadataPage opened
    CC-BY-4.0
    Third-party text · Hugging Face card metadatalicense: "cc-by-4.0"

    Hugging Face dataset card: cc-by-4.0

    huggingface.co2026-11-12 · s01
  2. Repository license filePage opened
    Apache-2.0
    Third-party text · Repository license fileApache License Version 2.0, January 2004

    GitHub repository license: Apache-2.0

    github.com2026-11-12 · s04
  3. PaperPage opened

    Paper page states no data license [Note: No URL recorded, so no snapshot exists]

    Second-hand, not verified

    No link2026-11-12

Source and lineage

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

No upstream or downstream datasets recorded.

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 Runs only on ingested data; says nothing about quality.

Downloading TCM-Ladder and API access

No file on Mdexa (see the verdict). Get it from the source and confirm the terms there:

7 files · 4.8 GB

Citing TCM-Ladder

Mdexa, TCM-Ladder, https://mdexa.com/datasets/tcm-ladder/, verified 2026-11-12.
More citation details

The source gives no citation text; the line above cites this card.

Machine-readable

tcm-ladder.jsontcm-ladder.mdcatalog.json

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

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