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.
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2025.findings-acl.530
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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10169–10187
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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.
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