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FairytaleQA

Introduced by Ying Xu et al. in Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA -- An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension26 Mar 2022 archive 2025-07-28

FairytaleQA is a dataset focusing on narrative comprehension of kindergarten to eighth-grade students. Annotated by educational experts based on an evidence-based theoretical framework, FairytaleQA consists of 10,580 explicit and implicit questions derived from 278 children-friendly story narratives, covering seven types of narrative elements or relations. It can support narrative Question Generation (QG) and Narrative Question Answering (QA) tasks.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Question Answering FairytaleQA BART fine-tuned on FairytaleQA F1 0.536 Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA... uci-soe/fairytaleqadata 4 Compare
Question Generation FairytaleQA BART fine-tuned on FairytaleQA ROUGE-L 0.527 Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA... uci-soe/fairytaleqadata 3 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 26. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA -- An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension 1 7 26 Mar 2022 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

Apache-2.0 License

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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