MultiHoax: A Dataset of Multi-hop False-premise questions
Mohammadamin Shafiei, Hamidreza Saffari, Nafise Sadat Moosavi
Abstract
As Large Language Models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, their ability to detect false assumptions and reason critically is crucial for ensuring reliable outputs. False-premise questions (FPQs) serve as an important evaluation method by exposing cases where flawed assumptions lead to incorrect responses. While existing benchmarks focus on single-hop FPQs, real-world reasoning often requires multi-hop inference, where models must verify consistency across multiple reasoning steps rather than relying on surface-level cues. To address this gap, we introduce MultiHoax, a benchmark for evaluating LLMs’ ability to handle false premises in complex, multi-step reasoning tasks. Our dataset spans seven countries and ten diverse knowledge categories, using Wikipedia as the primary knowledge source to enable cross-regional factual reasoning. Experiments reveal that state-of-the-art LLMs struggle to detect false premises across different countries, knowledge categories, and multi-hop reasoning types, highlighting the need for improved false premise detection and more robust multi-hop reasoning capabilities in LLMs.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.findings-acl.530
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 10169–10187
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.530/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mohammadamin Shafiei, Hamidreza Saffari, and Nafise Sadat Moosavi. 2025. MultiHoax: A Dataset of Multi-hop False-premise questions. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 10169–10187, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MultiHoax: A Dataset of Multi-hop False-premise questions (Shafiei et al., Findings 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/display_plenaries/2025.findings-acl.530.pdf