| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - question-answering |
| language: |
| - en |
| - as |
| - bn |
| - doi |
| - gu |
| - hi |
| - kn |
| - kok |
| - mai |
| - ml |
| - mr |
| - mni |
| - ne |
| - or |
| - pa |
| - sa |
| - sd |
| - ta |
| - te |
| - ur |
| tags: |
| - indic |
| - factual-knowledge |
| - benchmark |
| - closed-book-qa |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: english |
| data_files: English.csv |
| - config_name: hindi |
| data_files: Hindi.csv |
| - config_name: marathi |
| data_files: Marathi.csv |
| - config_name: assamese |
| data_files: Assamese.csv |
| - config_name: bengali |
| data_files: Bengali.csv |
| - config_name: dogri |
| data_files: Dogri.csv |
| - config_name: gujarati |
| data_files: Gujarati.csv |
| - config_name: kannada |
| data_files: Kannada.csv |
| - config_name: konkani |
| data_files: Konkani.csv |
| - config_name: maithili |
| data_files: Maithili.csv |
| - config_name: malayalam |
| data_files: Malayalam.csv |
| - config_name: manipuri |
| data_files: Manipuri.csv |
| - config_name: nepali |
| data_files: Nepali.csv |
| - config_name: odia |
| data_files: Odia.csv |
| - config_name: punjabi |
| data_files: Punjabi.csv |
| - config_name: sanskrit |
| data_files: Sanskrit.csv |
| - config_name: sindhi |
| data_files: Sindhi.csv |
| - config_name: tamil |
| data_files: Tamil.csv |
| - config_name: telugu |
| data_files: Telugu.csv |
| - config_name: urdu |
| data_files: Urdu.csv |
| --- |
| |
| # IndicQuest v2 |
|
|
| A gold-standard multilingual question-answering benchmark for evaluating the India-specific factual knowledge of Large Language Models. 3,471 curriculum-grounded English question–answer pairs across nine domains, translated into 19 Indic languages: 69,420 parallel pairs across 20 languages. |
|
|
| More details can be found in our [paper](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15535). |
|
|
| ## Dataset structure |
|
|
| One CSV per language, named `<language>.csv` (`english.csv`, `hindi.csv`, `marathi.csv`, …). Every file has the same 3,471 rows in the same order, so the *n*th row of any file is the translation of the *n*th row of `english.csv`. |
|
|
| | Column | Description | |
| |---|---| |
| | `question` | The question, in the file's language | |
| | `answer` | Gold answer, one to five words | |
| | `Domain` | One of nine domains (see below) | |
|
|
| ### Domains |
|
|
| | Domain | Pairs | |
| |---|---| |
| | Culture | 534 | |
| | History | 510 | |
| | Geography | 499 | |
| | Law | 494 | |
| | Political Science | 450 | |
| | Science | 325 | |
| | Sports | 273 | |
| | Art | 233 | |
| | Commercial Studies | 153 | |
| | **Total** | **3,471** | |
|
|
| ### Languages |
|
|
| English plus Assamese, Bengali, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei (Manipuri), Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. |
|
|
| ## Example |
|
|
| | question | answer | Domain | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | Which apex body was set up in 1982 to coordinate all institutions involved in the rural financing system? | NABARD | Commercial Studies | |
| | Which river's water is primarily harnessed by the Ukai project in India? | Tapi river | Geography | |
| | Which is the oldest football tournament in India, established by Sir Mortimer Durand and held from 1888 in Simla? | Durand Cup | Sports | |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| english = load_dataset("l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2", data_files="english.csv") |
| hindi = load_dataset("l3cube-pune/IndicQuest-v2", data_files="hindi.csv") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Citing |
|
|
| ``` |
| @article{jain2026l3cube, |
| title={L3Cube-IndicQuest v2: A Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Factual Knowledge of Large Language Models Across Indic Languages}, |
| author={Jain, Rinit and Mahajan, Tirthraj and Joshi, Advait and Joshi, Raviraj}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.15535}, |
| year={2026} |
| } |
| ``` |
