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QA Is the New KR: Question-Answer Pairs as Knowledge Bases

arXiv 2207.00630 ↗First posted 1 Jul 2022cs.AIcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

In this position paper, we propose a new approach to generating a type of knowledge base (KB) from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional symbolic KB: in particular, it consists of small modular components, which can be combined compositionally to answer complex queries, including relational queries and queries involving "multi-hop" inferences. However, unlike a traditional KB, this information store is well-aligned with common user information needs.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Builds on 30 of its 55 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Jul 2022.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 1; 2023: 1; 2024: 1; 2025: 1; 2026: 2.

6 papers.

  1. 2022A Survey on Table-and-Text HybridQA: Concepts, Methods, Challenges and Future Directionscited by 7
  2. 2025How to Mitigate Information Loss in Knowledge Graphs for GraphRAG: Leveraging Triple Context Restoration and Query-Driven Feedbackcited by 6
  3. 2023Answering Ambiguous Questions with a Database of Questions, Answers, and Revisionscited by 4
  4. 2024QAEA-DR: A Unified Text Augmentation Framework for Dense Retrievalcited by 4
  5. 2026SocraticKG: Knowledge Graph Construction via QA-Driven Fact Extractioncited by 0
  6. 2026MDER-DR: Multi-Hop Question Answering with Entity-Centric Summariescited by 0