Web Questions: 6,642 Question-Answer Pairs for Knowledge Graph QA

6,642 question-answer pairs designed to be answerable by the Freebase knowledge graph. The questions are popular web queries from around 2013 and are mostly centered on single named entities. It was created by researchers including Jonathan Berant and Andrew Chou.

Use Cases

• Train question-answering models based on the provided question-answer pairs.
• Benchmark knowledge graph retrieval systems based on questions answerable by Freebase.
• Study the characteristics of popular web queries based on the described question collection.
• Develop named entity linking techniques based on questions centered on single entities.

Strengths

• Contains 6,642 question-answer pairs, providing a substantial corpus for model training and evaluation.
• Questions are derived from popular web searches, offering real-world relevance for the time period.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• The dataset's temporal scope is centered on web popularity from around 2013, which may limit contemporary relevance.

Provenance

Source

Originally from research by Berant, Jonathan and Chou, Andrew and Frostig, Roy and Liang, Percy.

Collection Method

Questions were likely gathered from web search logs to be answerable by Freebase.

Time Range

Questions reflect popularity around 2013.