Datasets:
web_questions

url (string)	question (string)	answers (json)
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/justin_bieber	what is the name of justin bieber brother?	[ "Jazmyn Bieber", "Jaxon Bieber" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/natalie_portman	what character did natalie portman play in star wars?	[ "Padmé Amidala" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/selena_gomez	what state does selena gomez?	[ "New York City" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/grand_bahama	what country is the grand bahama island in?	[ "Bahamas" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_bahamas	what kind of money to take to bahamas?	[ "Bahamian dollar" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/john_noble	what character did john noble play in lord of the rings?	[ "Denethor II" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/joakim_noah	who does joakim noah play for?	[ "Chicago Bulls" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/washington_redskins	where are the nfl redskins from?	[ "Washington Redskins" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/saki	where did saki live?	[ "United Kingdom" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sacha_baron_cohen	how old is sacha baron cohen?	[ "http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/12/sacha-baron-cohen-insults-madonna-at-golden-globes/" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/poland	what two countries invaded poland in the beginning of ww2?	[ "Germany" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cleveland_ohio	what time zone am i in cleveland ohio?	[ "North American Eastern Time Zone" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/draco_malfoy	who did draco malloy end up marrying?	[ "Astoria Greengrass" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states	which countries border the us?	[ "Canada" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/rome	where is rome italy located on a map?	[ "Rome" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/nina_dobrev	what is nina dobrev nationality?	[ "Bulgaria" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/iceland	what country does iceland belong to?	[ "Iceland" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/john_f_kennedy	which kennedy died first?	[ "John F. Kennedy" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/beverly_cleary	what books did beverly cleary right?	[ "Ramona's World", "Ramona Quimby, Age 8", "Ralph S. Mouse", "Runaway Ralph", "Ribsy", "Sister of the Bride", "Ellen Tebbits", "Dear Mr. Henshaw", "The Mouse and the Motorcycle", "Beezus and Ramona" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/philippines	who did the philippines gain independence from?	[ "United States of America" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bali	where to fly into bali?	[ "Ngurah Rai Airport" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ethiopia	who is the prime minister of ethiopia?	[ "Hailemariam Desalegn" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sedona	what to see near sedona arizona?	[ "Sedona Airport", "Red Rock State Park", "Seven Canyons", "Honanki", "Cathedral Rock", "Chapel of the Holy Cross", "Sycamore Canyon", "Oak Creek Canyon", "Slide Rock State Park", "Bell Rock" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bill_clinton	what high school did president bill clinton attend?	[ "Hot Springs High School" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/russia	what form of government does russia have today?	[ "Constitutional republic" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/taylor_lautner	what movies does taylor lautner play in?	[ "Abduction", "Eclipse", "Valentine's Day", "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1", "New Moon" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/lebron_james	what year lebron james came to the nba?	[ "2003–04 NBA season" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/german_language	what did the german revolution lead to?	[ "German Democratic Republic" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/adriana_lima	how much did adriana lima gain during pregnancy?	[ "Spike Guys' Choice Awards" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thai_language	what does thai mean?	[ "Language" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/wives_of_henry_viii	which wife did king henry behead?	[ "Anne of the Thousand Days" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ishmael	who was ishmael's mom?	[ "Hagar" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/malcolm_x	what was malcolm x trying to accomplish?	[ "African Americans' rights", "Black Liberation" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/netherlands	where are the netherlands on a world map?	[ "Kingdom of the Netherlands" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/brazil	what is the president of brazil?	[ "Dilma Rousseff" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/france	what are the major cities in france?	[ "Paris" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/esther	what city did esther live in?	[ "Susa" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/toronto_maple_leafs	what sport do the toronto maple leafs play?	[ "Ice Hockey" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/nicholas_ii_of_russia	what is saint nicholas known for?	[ "Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/essex	when is the new series of the only way is essex starting?	[ "West Horndon" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cher	what is cher's son's name?	[ "Elijah Blue Allman", "Chaz Bono" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/martin_cooper	what is martin cooper doing now?	[ "Inventor" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/andrew_jackson	what party was andrew jackson?	[ "Democratic-Republican Party", "Democratic Party", "Jacksonian Democratic Party" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/medicare	what is medicare a?	[ "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/hampton	what county is the city of hampton va in?	[ "Hampton" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/harry_potter	what is the name of the first harry potter novel?	[ "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/william_shakespeare	what did william shakespeare do for a living?	[ "Poet", "Playwright", "Dramatist", "Lyricist", "Author" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/london_heathrow_airport	what county is heathrow airport in?	[ "London" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/dmitri_mendeleev	where did dmitri mendeleev study science?	[ "Saint Petersburg State University", "Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/josh_hutcherson	what movie is josh hutcherson in?	[ "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant", "The Hunger Games", "7 Days in Havana", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "The Forger", "Detention", "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island", "Red Dawn", "The Third Rule", "The Kids Are All Right" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/laredo	what is there to do in laredo tx?	[ "Veterans Field", "San Augustin de Laredo Historic District", "Laredo Energy Arena", "Lake Casa Blanca", "Texas A&M International University Soccer Complex", "Fort McIntosh", "Southern Careers Institute, Laredo Campus", "Texas A&M International University", "Webb County Courthouse", "Nye" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/tony_soprano	what season did tony soprano get shot?	[ "The Sopranos" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/san_francisco_giants	where do the san francisco giants play home games?	[ "AT&T Park" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/william_jennings_bryan	what year did william jennings bryan run for president?	[ "1900 Democratic National Convention", "1908 Democratic National Convention", "1896 Democratic National Convention" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/frederick_douglass	what was the name of frederick douglass book?	[ "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/victoria_of_the_united_kingdom	who was queen victoria's parents called?	[ "Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn", "Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sally_field	what movies did sally field win an oscar for?	[ "Places in the Heart", "Sybil", "Norma Rae", "A Woman Of Independent Means", "A Cooler Climate", "Brothers & Sisters", "ER" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sherlock_holmes	what is the first book sherlock holmes appeared in?	[ "A Study in Scarlet" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/michael_weston	what type of car does michael weston drive?	[ "Wishcraft" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/lena_river	where does lena river begin and end?	[ "Baikal Mountains" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/portuguese	what countries do people speak portuguese?	[ "Brazil", "Canada", "Angola", "Portugal", "Macau", "Cape Verde", "Andorra", "Timor-Leste", "Guinea-Bissau", "Mozambique" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/pittsburgh	where to exchange euros in pittsburgh?	[ "Allegheny County" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/walt_disney	what are the names of walt disney kids?	[ "Diane Disney Miller", "Sharon Mae Disney" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bush	who is in the band bush?	[ "Dave Parsons", "Gavin Rossdale", "Sacha Putnam", "Robin Goodridge", "Nigel Pulsford", "Corey Britz", "Chris Traynor" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/tupac_shakur	what was tupac name in juice?	[ "Bishop" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/austraila	what timezone is australia gmt?	[ "UTC+8" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/maggie_grace	who does maggie grace play in taken?	[ "Kim" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/louis_armstrong	what style of music did louis armstrong play?	[ "Jazz" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sydney	when is summer in australia sydney?	[ "City of Sydney" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/joey_lawrence	what tv show did joey lawrence play on?	[ "Blossom", "Melissa & Joey", "Bow", "Gimme a Break!", "Run of the House", "Brotherly Love" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/denver	what timezone is denver co?	[ "Mountain Time Zone", "UTC−07:00" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/brian_austin_green	what character did brian austin green play on 90210?	[ "David Silver" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jackie_french	where does jackie french live?	[ "Australia" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sparta	what form of government was practiced in sparta?	[ "Monarchy", "Diarchy" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/colorado_rockies	when did the colorado rockies go to the world series?	[ "2007 National League Championship Series" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/peter_parker_spider_man	who was peter parker's first girlfriend?	[ "Marvel Comics" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/matt_lauer	what college did matt lauer attend?	[ "Ohio University" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/london	where to go in london england?	[ "Regent's Park", "Tower of London", "Buckingham Palace", "Palace of Westminster", "London Eye", "Tower Bridge", "Hyde Park", "Westminster Abbey", "St Paul's Cathedral", "Trafalgar Square" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/joan_miro	what school did joan miro attend?	[ "Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/france	where did france colonise?	[ "Réunion", "Saint Barthélemy", "Mayotte", "French Southern and Antarctic Lands", "New Caledonia", "Saint Pierre and Miquelon", "Collectivity of Saint Martin", "French Polynesia", "Martinique", "Guadeloupe" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/vincent_van_gogh	who was vincent van gogh inspired by?	[ "Jozef Israëls", "Paul Cézanne", "Anton Mauve", "Peter Paul Rubens", "Jean-François Millet", "Willem Roelofs", "Eugène Delacroix", "Claude Monet", "Rembrandt" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jacksonville	where to get married in jacksonville nc?	[ "Atlantic Beach", "Jacksonville Beach", "Baldwin", "St. Johns River", "Masonic Temple", "Lewis Mausoleum", "EverBank Field", "Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena", "Morocco Temple", "El Modelo Block" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/michigan	what time zone am i in michigan?	[ "North American Eastern Time Zone" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/new_york_knicks	when did the new york knicks win a championship?	[ "1970 NBA Finals", "1973 NBA Finals" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/china	what is the official language of china 2010?	[ "Chinese language" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/woodrow_wilson	what was woodrow wilson's major accomplishments?	[ "United States Secretary of Agriculture", "Governor of New Jersey", "President of the United States" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jack_daniels	where is jack daniels factory?	[ "Tennessee" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/pakistan	what language do the speak in pakistan?	[ "English Language", "Urdu Language" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/santa_clara_university	where is santa clara university?	[ "United States of America", "California", "Santa Clara" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/korea	which part of korea is communist?	[ "North Korea" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/timothy_mcveigh	where did timothy mcveigh go to prison?	[ "Terre Haute" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/yangtze_river	what sea does the yangtze river flow into?	[ "East China Sea" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/miley_cyrus	who miley cyrus engaged to?	[ "Liam Hemsworth" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/charles_darwin	what is charles darwin famous for?	[ "Evolution" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/roanoke_colony	who founded the roanoke settlement?	[ "Rainbow Bluff Expedition" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jamaica	what kind of money should i take to jamaica?	[ "Jamaican dollar" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/robert_downey_jr	who is robert downey jr wife?	[ "Susan Downey" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/new_york_rangers	where do the ny rangers play?	[ "Madison Square Garden" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jefferson_davis	where is jefferson davis buried?	[ "Hollywood Cemetery" ]
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/stephenie_meyer	who does the author stephenie meyer play in the movie twilight?	[ "Woman at Wedding" ]

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Dataset Card for "web_questions"

Dataset Summary

This dataset consists of 6,642 question/answer pairs. The questions are supposed to be answerable by Freebase, a large knowledge graph. The questions are mostly centered around a single named entity. The questions are popular ones asked on the web (at least in 2013).

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

default

Size of downloaded dataset files: 1.21 MB
Size of the generated dataset: 0.79 MB
Total amount of disk used: 2.00 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    "answers": ["Jamaican Creole English Language", "Jamaican English"],
    "question": "what does jamaican people speak?",
    "url": "http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jamaica"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

default

url: a string feature.
question: a string feature.
answers: a list of string features.

Data Splits

name	train	test
default	3778	2032

Dataset Creation

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Source Data

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Citation Information


@inproceedings{berant-etal-2013-semantic,
    title = "Semantic Parsing on {F}reebase from Question-Answer Pairs",
    author = "Berant, Jonathan  and
      Chou, Andrew  and
      Frostig, Roy  and
      Liang, Percy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2013",
    address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D13-1160",
    pages = "1533--1544",
}