ComplexTempQA: A 100m Dataset for Complex Temporal Question Answering

Raphael Gruber, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Michael Färber, Adam Jatowt


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We introduce ComplexTempQA,a large-scale dataset consisting of over 100 million question-answer pairs designed to tackle the challenges in temporal question answering. ComplexTempQA significantly surpasses existing benchmarks in scale and scope. Utilizing Wikipedia and Wikidata, the dataset covers questions spanning over two decades and offers an unmatched scale. We introduce a new taxonomy that categorizes questions as attributes, comparisons, and counting questions, revolving around events, entities, and time periods, respectively. A standout feature of ComplexTempQA is the high complexity of its questions, which demand reasoning capabilities for answering such as across-time comparison, temporal aggregation, and multi-hop reasoning involving temporal event ordering and entity recognition. Additionally, each question is accompanied by detailed metadata, including specific time scopes, allowing for comprehensive evaluation of temporal reasoning abilities of large language models.
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2025.emnlp-main.463
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
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Raphael Gruber, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Michael Färber, and Adam Jatowt. 2025. ComplexTempQA: A 100m Dataset for Complex Temporal Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9111–9123, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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