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SimpleQuestions

Introduced by Antoine Bordes et al. in Large-scale Simple Question Answering with Memory Networks1 Jan 2015 archive 2025-07-28

SimpleQuestions is a large-scale factoid question answering dataset. It consists of 108,442 natural language questions, each paired with a corresponding fact from Freebase knowledge base. Each fact is a triple (subject, relation, object) and the answer to the question is always the object. The dataset is divided into training, validation, and test sets with 75,910, 10,845 and 21,687 questions respectively.

Source: Hierarchical Memory Networks Image Source: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/large-scale-simple-question-answering-with/

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
Knowledge Base Question Answering SimpleQuestions PoG-GPT4 (Tan et al., 2024) EM 84 Paths-over-Graph: Knowledge Graph Empowered Large... SteveTANTAN/PoG 1 Compare
Question Answering SimpleQuestions Memory Networks (ensemble) F1 63.9% Large-scale Simple Question Answering with Memory Networks facebookresearch/ParlAI +2 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

2 shown of 2 papers 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 120. 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
Paths-over-Graph: Knowledge Graph Empowered Large Language Model Reasoning 1 1 18 Oct 2024 ran 1 of 12 samples (11 unverified)
Large-scale Simple Question Answering with Memory Networks 3 1 5 Jun 2015 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

4 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

BSD-3-Clause License

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • SimpleQuestions

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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