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WebQuestions
The WebQuestions dataset is a question answering dataset using Freebase as the knowledge base and contains 6,642 question-answer pairs. It was created by crawling questions through the Google Suggest API, and then obtaining answers using Amazon Mechanical Turk. The original split uses 3,778 examples for training and 2,032 for testing. All answers are defined as Freebase entities.
Example questions (answers) in the dataset include “Where did Edgar Allan Poe died?” (baltimore) or “What degrees did Barack Obama get?” (bachelor_of_arts, juris_doctor).
Source: Question Answering with Subgraph Embeddings Image Source: Berant et al
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 4 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) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question Answering | WebQuestions | CoA EM 70.7 | Chain-of-Action: Faithful and Multimodal Question... | MAGICS-LAB/Chain-of-Actions | 37 | Compare |
| KG-to-Text Generation | WebQuestions | JointGT (BART) BLEU 30.02 | JointGT: Graph-Text Joint Representation Learning for... | thu-coai/JointGT | 5 | Compare |
| Open-Domain Question Answering | WebQuestions | UniK-QA Exact Match 57.7 | UniK-QA: Unified Representations of Structured and... | facebookresearch/UniK-QA | 4 | Compare |
| Knowledge Base Question Answering | WebQuestions | PoG-GPT4 (Tan et al., 2024) EM 84.6 | Paths-over-Graph: Knowledge Graph Empowered Large... | SteveTANTAN/PoG | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
26 shown of 26 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 241. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
6 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
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1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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