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Towards Verifiable Generation: A Benchmark for Knowledge-aware
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XinzeLi1,YixinCao2†,LiangmingPan3,YuboMa1,AixinSun1†
1 S-Lab,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity
2 SingaporeManagementUniversity3 UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara
|     | {xinze002, |     |                  | yubo001}@e.ntu.edu.sg |     |                       |     | axsun@ntu.edu.sg |     |     |     |
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|     |            |     | yxcao@smu.edu.sg |                       |     | liangmingpan@ucsb.edu |     |                  |     |     |     |
Abstract
Question: How did Orazio Gentileschi's influence on Artemisia's life
and career shape her development as a Baroque painter?
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|                         |     |     |     |                     |     | Graph     |     | Q 1 0 2 | 8 1 8 1 |     |     |
tributioncanbeapotentialsolution,thereare P a i n t e r Q37853
Baroque
nosuitablebenchmarksandevaluationmetrics
| toattributeLLMstostructuredknowledge. |     |     |     |     | In  |     |     |     | occupation |     |     |
| ------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- |
style
| thispaper,wedefineanewtaskofKnowledge- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | o ccupation |     |     |     |
| -------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- |
movemen
| awareLanguageModelAttribution(KaLMA) |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | t   | child |     |     |
| ------------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | --- | --- |
place of birth
birth
| that                       | improves |     | upon three | core concerns  | with |     |     |             | father | member      |     |
| -------------------------- | -------- | --- | ---------- | -------------- | ---- | --- | --- | ----------- | ------ | ----------- | --- |
| conventionalattributedLMs. |          |     |            | First,weextend |      |     |     |             |        |             |     |
|                            |          |     |            |                |      |     |     | Orazio      |        | Artemisia   |     |
|                            |          |     |            |                |      |     |     | Gentileschi |        | Gentileschi |     |
attribution source from unstructured texts to Citizen Citizen
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | Q367560 |     | Q212657 |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | ------- | --- |
KnowledgeGraph(KG),whoserichstructures
| benefit | both | the | attribution | performance | and |     |     |     |     | Italy |     |
| ------- | ---- | --- | ----------- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | --- |
Q38
| workingscenarios. |     |     | Second,weproposeanew |     |     |     | Attribute |     |     |     |     |
| ----------------- | --- | --- | -------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
LLM
“ConsciousIncompetence"settingconsidering
Output: Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter born on July 8,
the incomplete knowledge repository, where 1596 [NA] in Rome [Q212657, citizen: Italy, occupation: painter,
the model identifies the need for supporting place of birth: Rome].  She was a member of ...
knowledgebeyondtheprovidedKG.Third,we Figure1: Ademonstrationofourtasksetup. Givena
question,thesystemgeneratesanswersattributedfrom
proposeacomprehensiveautomaticevaluation
metricencompassingtextquality,citationqual- aretrievedknowledgegraph.Theunderlinesinquestion
ity,andtextcitationalignment. Toimplement aretheretrievedentities,andtheunderlinesinoutputs
|     |       |              |     |                    |     | arethecitations. |     | [NA]isthe“NotApplicableCitation”. |     |     |     |
| --- | ----- | ------------ | --- | ------------------ | --- | ---------------- | --- | --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- |
| the | above | innovations, |     | we build a dataset | in  |                  |     |                                   |     |     |     |
biographydomainBioKaLMAviaevolution-
aryquestiongenerationstrategy,tocontrolthe
questioncomplexityandnecessaryknowledge triesthatrequireprecisionandfactualknowledge
to the answer. For evaluation, we develop a likefinance,law,andmedicaltreatment.
baselinesolutionanddemonstratetheroomfor To minimize the negative impacts, researchers
improvementinLLMs’citationgeneration,em-
|     |     |     |     |     |     | have | proposed | the | task | of language | attribu- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | -------- | --- | ---- | ----------- | -------- |
phasizingtheimportanceofincorporatingthe
tion(Bohnetetal.,2023),whichnotonlyenables
"ConsciousIncompetence"setting,andthecrit-
userstoverifythegeneratedtextflexiblybutalso
icalroleofretrievalaccuracy.
|     |              |     |     |     |     | contributes        | to        | many                       | important   | applications, | such    |
| --- | ------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------ | --------- | -------------------------- | ----------- | ------------- | ------- |
| 1   | Introduction |     |     |     |     | assituationreports |           | (Reddyetal.,2023),academic |             |               |         |
|     |              |     |     |     |     | papers             | (Salvagno | et                         | al., 2023), | medical       | diagno- |
Recently, Large Language Models (Brown et al., sis(ZucconandKoopman,2023).Existingworks
2020) (LLMs) have exhibited great capability in mainlyattributegeneratedoutputstounstructured
open-endedquestionanswering(Yangetal.,2019). documents like web pages (Nakano et al., 2021;
However,thegeneratedanswersmayincludefac- Menicketal.,2022)orpassages(Gaoetal.,2023).
tualerrorsandarenotalwaysreliable,andiscom- Toverifytheanswerquality,theytypicallycompare
monlyknownasthe“hallucination”(Shusteretal., withahumanannotatedreferenceanswerforauto-
2021;Jietal.,2023)problem. Forinstance,LLMs maticevaluationorconducthumanevaluation. We
maygivewrongdiagnosistopatient’ssymptoms. arguethatthereareseveralconcernsonsuchtask
Hallucinationhassevereharmsespeciallyonindus- definition. Firstly,aredocumentstheonlysource

database2
forattribution? Manyreal-worldapplicationshave ical (Plum et al., 2022) and WikiData,
theirownknowledgebasesorsemi-structuredre- BioKaLMAcontains1,085dataentries. Eachdata
ports. Secondly,doestheattributionsourcealways entryincludesquestionandknowledgerequiredto
includealltherequiredknowledge? Weconsider answerthequestion. Forevaluation,weseparately
thecoverageissuesincenoperfectrepositorycan evaluatethegeneratedtext,thegeneratedcitations,
containalltheinformationinthisworld. Thirdly, andthealignmentbetweentextsandcitations. We
howtosystematicallyevaluatetheattributedcon- useG-Eval(Liuetal.,2023b)toautomaticallyeval-
tentwithoutreferences? Foropen-endedquestions, uatethetextquality. Wealsodesignmeasurement
there are unlimited number of answers and it is forcorrectness,precision,andrecallforcitations.
difficulttodefineasinglegroundtruth. Lastly,wedeterminethealignmentbetweentexts
Toaddressthefirstchallenge,weutilizeknowl- andcitationsemployingNLI(Daganetal.,2005)
edgegraph(KG)asareliablesourceforattribution, Wesummarizeourcontributionsasfollows: 1)
WedefinethetaskofKnowledge-awareLanguage
namelyKnowledge-awareLanguageModelAttri-
bution(KaLMA).Weshowademonstrationoftask Model Attribution (KaLMA) that attributes lan-
inFigure1. KGsefficientlyorganizeworldknowl- guagemodelstostructuredknowledge. 2)Wede-
signacompletebenchmarkingpipeline,including
| edge in                          | a structured |     | manner | and | has the     | poten- |          |           |     |            |     |          |       |
| -------------------------------- | ------------ | --- | ------ | --- | ----------- | ------ | -------- | --------- | --- | ---------- | --- | -------- | ----- |
|                                  |              |     |        |     |             |        | dataset, | baseline, | and | evaluation |     | metrics. | 3) We |
| tialtounifyvariousformatsofdata. |              |     |        |     | Forexample, |        |          |           |     |            |     |          |       |
databasescanbeeasilyconvertedintoKGs,or,pas- conductextensiveexperimentsandshowroomfor
sagesandwebpagescanberepresentedasanode improvementoftheLLMs’abilitytogenerateac-
|                    |     |     |                        |     |     |     | curate | and thorough |     | citations | based | on provided |     |
| ------------------ | --- | --- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | ------------ | --- | --------- | ----- | ----------- | --- |
| inKGlikeWikipedia. |     |     | KaLMAdiffersfromentity |     |     |     |        |              |     |           |       |             |     |
linking(Sevgilietal.,2022)sincethesentencesor knowledgegraphs. Ourexperimentson“Conscious
phrasesareattributedtoaknowledgetripletrather Incompetence”investigatethecapabilityofcurrent
LLMstoidentifyiftherearerequiredknowledge
| thanasingleentity. |     | Forthesecondchallenge,we |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------ | --- | ------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
tacklethecoverageproblembymakingthemodel notinknowledgegraph. Wehighlightthenecessity
awareofitslimitations. Weintroduceanewsetting ofincorporatingthissettinginfuturelanguageat-
“ConsciousIncompetence”(CurtissandWarren, tributionworks. Furthermore,ourablationstudies
demonstratethecrucialroleofretrievalaccuracy
1974),whichisthepsychologicalstagethatoneis
aware of the knowledge gap. During generation, inachievingdesirablegenerationresults.
| LLMs      | identify | sentences | that          | require | supporting |     |                  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | -------- | --------- | ------------- | ------- | ---------- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|           |          |           |               |         |            |     | 2 TaskandDataset |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| knowledge | absent   | in        | the knowledge |         | graph.     | Our |                  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
settingenablesanattributedLMtorecognizethe
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 2.1 TaskFormulation |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
knowledgegapsandallowsuserstoverifyuncer-
WeherebydefinethetaskKnowledge-awareLan-
| tainclaims, | whichenhancestrustworthiness. |     |     |     |     | For |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ----------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
guageModelAttribution(KaLMA):Givenaques-
| the third | challenge, | we  | propose | a   | comprehensive |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ---------- | --- | ------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
automaticevaluationmetricincludingtextquality, tionq andtheknowledgegraphG,thesystemgen-
|                                            |          |          |          |            |     |     | erates an                                 | output | text | t that | answers | the question. |     |
| ------------------------------------------ | -------- | -------- | -------- | ---------- | --- | --- | ----------------------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ------ | ------- | ------------- | --- |
| citation                                   | quality, | and text | citation | alignment. |     | The |                                           |        |      |        |         |               |     |
|                                            |          |          |          |            |     |     | Theoutputtextconsistsofalistofmsentencess |        |      |        |         |               | ,   |
| entireevaluationprocessdoesnotrequirehuman |          |          |          |            |     |     |                                           |        |      |        |         |               | 1   |
annotatedgroundtruth. ...,s groundedwithalistofngroundedknowl-
m
|              |     |     |       |              |     |          | edge k 1 | .. k n           | where | {k 1 ..k | n } ∈            | G. Each | knowl- |
| ------------ | --- | --- | ----- | ------------ | --- | -------- | -------- | ---------------- | ----- | -------- | ---------------- | ------- | ------ |
| To implement |     | the | above | innovations, |     | we first |          |                  |       |          |                  |         |        |
|              |     |     |       |              |     |          | edgek    | isasub-graphofG. |       |          | Eachsentencesmay |         |        |
designanautomaticdatasetconstructionpipeline.
begroundedbyzerouptomultipleknowledge.
| Usingthispipeline,weconstructadataset1 |      |             |        |           |     | inthe    |                                |     |     |     |     |          |     |
| -------------------------------------- | ---- | ----------- | ------ | --------- | --- | -------- | ------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | --- |
| biographical                           |      | domain,     | namely | BioKaLMA, |     | for a    |                                |     |     |     |     |          |     |
|                                        |      |             |        |           |     |          | SettingofConsciousIncompetence |     |     |     |     | Weextend |     |
| benchmark                              | with | all-rounded |        | automatic |     | measure- |                                |     |     |     |     |          |     |
thistasksettingtoincludeconsciousincompetence.
| ments. | Biography | forms | a good | test-set |     | for attri- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | --------- | ----- | ------ | -------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Giventhesameinput,eachsentencesintheoutput
| bution | due to | its practical | application |     | and | conve- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ------ | ------------- | ----------- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
texttcanmaptoaNotApplicableCitation(weuse
nient evaluation. The availability of high-quality [NA]torepresentit)ifitincludessomeknowledge
knowledgegraphlikeWikiDataalsobenefitsour
|         |               |             |          |      |               |          | to be verified,  |        | but the      | knowledge             |           | is absent | in the |
| ------- | ------------- | ----------- | -------- | ---- | ------------- | -------- | ---------------- | ------ | ------------ | --------------------- | --------- | --------- | ------ |
| dataset | construction. |             | Derived  | from | the biograph- |          |                  |        |              |                       |           |           |        |
|         |               |             |          |      |               |          | knowledgegraphG. |        |              | Asentencecanmaptoboth |           |           |        |
|         |               |             |          |      |               |          | [NA] and         | a list | of sub-graph |                       | knowledge | if        | it can |
| 1The    | codes         | and dataset | BioKaLMA |      | are           | publicly |                  |        |              |                       |           |           |        |
available in https://github.com/lixinze777/ 2https://plumaj.github.io/
| Knowledge-aware-Language-Model-Attribution |     |     |     |     |     |     | biographical/ |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

|              |          |        |           |       |     | General  | Question: |     |         |          |     |     |
| ------------ | -------- | ------ | --------- | ----- | --- | -------- | --------- | --- | ------- | -------- | --- | --- |
| be partially | verified | by the | knowledge | graph | G.  |          |           |     |         |          |     |     |
|              |          |        |           |       |     | Who were | Oscar     | and | Richard | Hertwig, |     |     |
[NA]isnotacitationonconventionalmeans,buta
|                          |     |     |     |     |     | and what   | were      | their   | contributions |          |     | to  |
| ------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------- | -------- | --- | --- |
| indicatorofknowledgegap. |     |     |     |     |     | the fields | of        | anatomy | and           | biology? |     |     |
|                          |     |     |     |     |     | Specific   | Question: |         |               |          |     |     |
|                          |     |     |     |     |     | What were  | the       | career  | paths         | and      |     |     |
2.2 DatasetConstruction significant contributions of Oscar and
|     |     |     |     |     |     | Richard | Hertwig | in  | the | fields | of  |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | ------- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | --- |
Each entry of dataset bioKaLMA includes two anatomy and biology, and who were
|                                   |     |     |     |     |        | their notable |     | mentors | and | students? |     |     |
| --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | ------------- | --- | ------- | --- | --------- | --- | --- |
| questionsandaminimumknowledgeset. |     |     |     |     | Thetwo |               |     |         |     |           |     |     |
questionsenquireaboutthesamepeopleonsimilar Minimum Knowledge Set:
|                            |                 |                  |              |     |          | [’Q85907’,  | ’occupation’, |                |           | ’biologist’] |        |     |
| -------------------------- | --------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | --- | -------- | ----------- | ------------- | -------------- | --------- | ------------ | ------ | --- |
| aspectsoftheirlifestories. |                 | Theminimumknowl- |              |     |          |             |               |                |           |              |        |     |
|                            |                 |                  |              |     |          | [’Q85907’,  | ’doctoral     |                | student’, |              |        |     |
| edge set                   | is the smallest | set              | of knowledge |     | that is  |             |               |                |           |              |        |     |
|                            |                 |                  |              |     |          | ’Stanislaus |               | von Prowazek’] |           |              |        |     |
|                            |                 |                  |              |     |          | [’Q68753’,  | ’doctoral     |                | advisor’, |              | ’Ernst |     |
| required                   | to answer each  | question.        |              | One | question |             |               |                |           |              |        |     |
Haeckel’]
isageneralversionandtheotherisspecific. The [’Q68753’, ’student of’, ’Ernst
| generalquestionsaremoreconciseandnaturalfor |     |     |     |     |     | Haeckel’]  |            |     |       |     |        |     |
| ------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | ---------- | --- | ----- | --- | ------ | --- |
|                                             |     |     |     |     |     | [’Q68753’, | ’nominated |     | for’, |     | ’Nobel |     |
humanreaders,andthespecificversionquestions
|     |     |     |     |     |     | Prize in | Physiology |     | or  | Medicine’] |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | ---------- | --- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- |
haveatighterbondtotheminimumknowledgeset, Table 1: An example for generated data entry in
BioKaLMA.Q85907andQ68753areRichardHertwig
| and is hence | more accurate |     | for evaluating |     | LLMs. |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | ------------- | --- | -------------- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
AnexampledatapieceisshowninTable1. andOscarHertwig’sQIDsinWikiData
| We construct                    | the | dataset | using            | an automatic |     |                   |     |     |         |     |          |     |
| ------------------------------- | --- | ------- | ---------------- | ------------ | --- | ----------------- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | -------- | --- |
|                                 |     |         |                  |              |     | Metric(fullscore) |     |     | General |     | Specific |     |
| pipelineconsistingofthreesteps: |     |         | PersonSelection, |              |     |                   |     |     |         |     |          |     |
|                                 |     |         |                  |              |     | Authenticity(1)   |     |     | 1.00    |     | 1.00     |     |
NameDisambiguation,andEvolutionaryQuestion
|             |                                |     |     |     |     | Relevance(1)   |     |     | 0.73 |     | 0.84 |     |
| ----------- | ------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | --- |
| Generation. | Inthefirsttwosteps,weuseSPARQL |     |     |     |     |                |     |     |      |     |      |     |
|             |                                |     |     |     |     | Naturalness(5) |     |     | 4.38 |     | 3.52 |     |
queriestoselectrelatedpeoplefromhumanwritten
|           |              |       |          |              |     | Significance(5) |     |     | 3.94 |     | 3.68 |     |
| --------- | ------------ | ----- | -------- | ------------ | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | --- |
| sentences | and identify | their | identity | in WikiData. |     |                 |     |     |      |     |      |     |
Inthethirdstep,weiterativelyconstructparagraph Table2: HumanEvaluationonBioKaLMAdataset.
| and question | about the | selected | people. |     | The first |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------ | --------- | -------- | ------- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
iterationstartswithahumanwrittensentenceabout
|     |     |     |     |     |     | EvaluationofDatasetQuality |     |     |     | Weevaluatethe |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- |
theselectedpeople. Ineachnextiteration,weapply BioKaLMAdatasetonthefollowingfourmetrics
adataselectionalgorithmtoselectanappropriate
|           |               |       |     |     |          | to ensure                                     | the quality | of  | the | dataset: | 1)  | Authen- |
| --------- | ------------- | ----- | --- | --- | -------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | ------- |
| knowledge | from WikiData | based | on  | the | existing |                                               |             |     |     |          |     |         |
|           |               |       |     |     |          | ticity: Thegeneratedquestionsshouldaccurately |             |     |     |          |     |         |
paragraph, and extend the paragraph to include reflecttheobjectivefacts. 2)Relevance: Eachmin-
theadditionalknowledgeusingLLM.Then,LLM
imumknowledgesetshouldprovidesupporttothe
constructsthequestionsusingthefinalparagraph
|               |             |     |          |           |     | correspondingquestion. |     |     | Eachpieceofknowledge |     |     |     |
| ------------- | ----------- | --- | -------- | --------- | --- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | -------------------- | --- | --- | --- |
| as an answer. | The general | and | specific | questions |     |                        |     |     |                      |     |     |     |
fromtheminimumknowledgesetisnotredundant.
are generated with different prompts and demon- 3)Naturalness: Thegeneratedquestionshouldbe
| strations. | All the selected  | knowledge |           | from | each     |                                         |     |           |     |          |        |     |
| ---------- | ----------------- | --------- | --------- | ---- | -------- | --------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --- | -------- | ------ | --- |
|            |                   |           |           |      |          | conciseandunderstandablebyhumanreaders. |     |           |     |          |        | 4)  |
| iteration  | form the “minimum |           | knowledge |      | set” for |                                         |     |           |     |          |        |     |
|            |                   |           |           |      |          | Significance:                           | The | generated |     | question | should | be  |
thequestion. Whileweusethehumanbiography meaningfulandhelpfultousers.
| domain        | as an example,               | this | method | is applicable |     |                                   |                 |     |       |     |             |     |
| ------------- | ---------------------------- | ---- | ------ | ------------- | --- | --------------------------------- | --------------- | --- | ----- | --- | ----------- | --- |
|               |                              |      |        |               |     | To our                            | best knowledge, |     | there | is  | no perfect  | au- |
| toalldomains. | Wepresentthedetailsofthedata |      |        |               |     |                                   |                 |     |       |     |             |     |
|               |                              |      |        |               |     | tomaticevaluationforthesemetrics. |                 |     |       |     | Naturalness |     |
constructioninAppendixA.
|     |     |     |     |     |     | and significance |     | are subjective. |     | Hence, |     | we apply |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --------------- | --- | ------ | --- | -------- |
humanevaluationtoensurethedatasetquality.
2.3 DatasetAnalysis
|     |     |     |     |     |     | We randomly |     | sample | 50  | data | entries | from |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | ------ | --- | ---- | ------- | ---- |
Statistics There are 1,085 data entries in BioKaLMA and ask human annotators to evalu-
BioKalMA. On average, there are 6.8 pieces of atethedataentriesbasedonthefourmetrics. The
generalandspecificquestionsareevaluatedsepa-
| knowledge | in each | “minimum | knowledge |     | set”. |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ------- | -------- | --------- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
BioKaLMA demonstrates a good demographic rately. MoredetailsaregiveninAppendixC.
variation. It includes a wide range of geograph- Thefinalresultforeachmetricistakenaverage
icaldistributionofpeoplefrom196countriesand andreportedinTable2. Forbothgeneralandspe-
949 cities, taking 279 kinds of different occupa- cificsettings,thequestionsfromsampleachievea
tions. Theerasofpeoplespanfrom1950B.C.to 100%authenticity,whichindicatesthattheoverall
| 2001A.D. |     |     |     |     |     | authenticityofBioKaLMAdatasetishigh. |     |     |     |     |     | Therel- |
| -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- |

evanceongeneralandspecificsettingsare73%and to the same word (e.g., “Chinese” the language
84%respectively. Thespecificquestionnormally and “Chinese” the ethnic group). When multiple
consists of more parts and include more details entities are retrieved from the graph for a given
than its general version, and hence some knowl- entityname,werankthegraphsbasedontheExact
edgearenecessarytothespecificversionbutnot Match (EM) between the neighboring nodes and
to the general version. However, the general ver- thequestion. Weselecttheentitywiththehighest
sionquestionssacrificerelevancetoachievebetter numberofmatchedneighboringnodes.
naturalnessandsignificance.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 3.3 Generation |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Inpractice,itisdifficulttodefineaprecise“min-
imum knowledge set” for a question unless it is Thegenerationcomponenteffectivelypromptthe
LLMswiththeretrievedknowledgegraphs(KGs)
| very specific. |     | However, | a very | specific |     | question |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------- | --- | -------- | ------ | -------- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
togenerateanswersthatattributetheKG.Toadapt
| tendstobeartificial. |     | Therelevanceandnaturalness |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------------- | --- | -------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ofaquestionhaveatrade-offrelationship. Itisyet totheinputformatoftheLLMs,wetransformthe
challenging to generate questions that have both structured KGs into flat texts. We preserve the
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | information |     | of the | retrieved | sub-graphs |     | by map- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | ------ | --------- | ---------- | --- | ------- |
highrelevanceandhighnaturalness,butourgener-
ationmethodallowsforacontrolonthegranularity pingeachsub-graphtoasetoftriples. Eachtriple
ofaquestiononwhetherittendstobemorenatural consists of two nodes and one edge, where one
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | node is | the centered |     | entity, | the other | node | is its |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | ------------ | --- | ------- | --------- | ---- | ------ |
ormorerelevant.
neighbor,andtheedgerepresentstherelationship
| 3 Method |     |     |     |     |     |     | betweenthem. |     | Forexample,[Q212657-placeof |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | --------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
birth-Q220]canbetranslatedto[ArtemisiaGen-
| We build        | a baseline | to         | enable    | LLMs      | to        | generate |                              |           |     |     |                    |            |      |
| --------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | -------- | ---------------------------- | --------- | --- | --- | ------------------ | ---------- | ---- |
|                 |            |            |           |           |           |          | tileschi-placeofbirth-Rome]. |           |     |     | Inthistranslation, |            |      |
| knowledge-aware |            | attributed |           | answers.  | Following |          |                              |           |     |     |                    |            |      |
|                 |            |            |           |           |           |          | we use                       | the names | of  | the | entities           | for better | com- |
| the approach    | of         | many       | retrieval | augmented |           | gener-   |                              |           |     |     |                    |            |      |
prehensionbyboththemodelsandhumans,since
| ation works | (Lee | et al., | 2022; | Izacard | and | Grave, |          |          |      |        |       |     |           |
| ----------- | ---- | ------- | ----- | ------- | --- | ------ | -------- | -------- | ---- | ------ | ----- | --- | --------- |
|             |      |         |       |         |     |        | WikiData | utilizes | QIDs | (e.g., | Q220) | to  | represent |
2021),weutilizeapipelineconsistingofthreecom-
|          |                                     |     |     |     |     |     | uniqueentities. |     | Weconstructaprompt(Table13 |          |     |             |     |
| -------- | ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | -------------------------- | -------- | --- | ----------- | --- |
| ponents: | retrieval,re-ranking,andgeneration. |     |     |     |     |     |                 |     |                            |          |     |             |     |
|          |                                     |     |     |     |     |     | in appendix     |     | D) which                   | includes | 1)  | instruction | to  |
3.1 Retrieval the models to generate attributed answers. 2) re-
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | trievedknowledgegraph,and3)thequestion. |     |     |     |     |     | We  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Ourbaselineretrievalprocessconsistsoftwoparts:
employone-shotin-contextlearning(Brownetal.,
| namedentityrecognitionandgraphretrieval. |                  |                                |       |       |           | We  |           |            |              |     |                |         |        |
| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------ | ----- | ----- | --------- | --- | --------- | ---------- | ------------ | --- | -------------- | ------- | ------ |
|                                          |                  |                                |       |       |           |     | 2020) by  | prepending |              | one | human          | written | demon- |
| utilizespaCy3                            |                  | toidentifythenamedentitiesmen- |       |       |           |     |           |            |              |     |                |         |        |
|                                          |                  |                                |       |       |           |     | stration. | In         | the one-shot |     | demonstration, |         | we use |
| tioned                                   | in the question. |                                | Using | these | entities, | we  |           |            |              |     |                |         |        |
thespecialtoken[NA]torepresentthe“NotAppli-
retrieveentity-centeredsub-graphsusingSPARQL.
|           |           |           |          |        |     |          | cableCitations”forconsciousincompetence. |      |      |           |     |        | We     |
| --------- | --------- | --------- | -------- | ------ | --- | -------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---- | ---- | --------- | --- | ------ | ------ |
| For each  | retrieved | entity,   | we       | search | for | nodes in |                                          |      |      |           |     |        |        |
|           |           |           |          |        |     |          | deliberately                             | omit | some | knowledge |     | in the | demon- |
| the graph | that      | match the | entity’s | name.  |     | We use   |                                          |      |      |           |     |        |        |
strationexampleknowledgegraph,andweinsert
| the named | entity | recognition |     | (NER) | entity | type |             |     |        |               |     |           |      |
| --------- | ------ | ----------- | --- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----------- | --- | ------ | ------------- | --- | --------- | ---- |
|           |        |             |     |       |        |      | [NA] tokens |     | in the | corresponding |     | sentences | that |
asasimplefilter(e.g.,theNERcategory“person”
usetheseknowledgewithintheexampleanswer.
| matchesthe“human”entitytypeinWikiData). |     |     |     |     |     | Tak- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ing each selected node as the center, we retrieve 4 EvaluationMetrics
one-hopsub-graphsthatcontainpropertiesassoci-
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | Our benchmark |     | includes |     | evaluation | metrics | for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | -------- | --- | ---------- | ------- | --- |
atedwiththeentity.
|                |     |     |     |     |     |     | boththegeneratedtextandcitations.           |     |                               |     |     | Wealsoevalu- |     |
| -------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------------------- | --- | ----------------------------- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- |
| 3.2 Re-ranking |     |     |     |     |     |     | atethealignmentbetweenthetextandcorrespond- |     |                               |     |     |              |     |
|                |     |     |     |     |     |     | ingcitations.                               |     | Weprovidemorediscussionsonthe |     |     |              |     |
There-rankingcomponentplaysacrucialrolein
designofevaluationmetricsinsubsection4.5.
| disambiguating |            | retrieved | entities, | as  | multiple     | en-   |                    |          |     |                  |     |     |          |
| -------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --- | ------------ | ----- | ------------------ | -------- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --- | -------- |
| tities may     | share      | the same  | name      | in  | the WikiData |       |                    |          |     |                  |     |     |          |
|                |            |           |           |     |              |       | 4.1 TextEvaluation |          |     |                  |     |     |          |
| graph.         | Two common | scenarios |           | are | different    | indi- |                    |          |     |                  |     |     |          |
|                |            |           |           |     |              |       | Since our          | test-set | has | no human-written |     |     | gold an- |
vidualswiththesamename(e.g.,AnneHathaway
swersasreferences,wedonotutilizecomparison-
theAmericanactressandAnneHathawaythewife
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | based metrics |     | such | as BERTScore |     | (Zhang | et al., |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | ---- | ------------ | --- | ------ | ------- |
ofWilliamShakespeare)anddifferentreferences
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | 2019a) | or MAUVE |     | (Pillutla | et  | al., 2021). | In- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | -------- | --- | --------- | --- | ----------- | --- |
3https://spacy.io/api/entityrecognizer stead,weemployreference-freeNLGevaluatorG-

| Model Output: |     |     |  Mininum  |     |     | Model Output: |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
  Absent
| Sentence1 [k1][k2].  |     |     |  Knowledge Set: |     |     | Sentence1 [k1][NA].  |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------------- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | -------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
  Knowledge Set:
| Sentence2 [k2][k6][NA].  |     |     |  [k1] [k2] |     |     | Sentence2 [k3][k6][NA].  |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------------ | --- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | ------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
[k2] [k4] [k5]
| Sentence3 [k6][k9].  |     |     |  [k3] [k4] [k5] |     |     | Sentence3 [k6][k9].  |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------------- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | -------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Citation Precision   |     |     | Citation Recall |     |     |                      |     | NLI |     |     |     |
P:Sentence1 H:[k2]          P:Sentence2 H:[k2]
| Sentence1 [k1][k2]. |     |     |     | Knowlege: |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
P:Sentence1 H:[k4]          P:Sentence2 H:[k4]
| Sentence2 [k2][k6][NA]. |     |     |     | [k1] [k2] |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
P:Sentence1 H:[k5]          P:Sentence2 H:[k5]
| Sentence3 [k6][k9].  |     |     |     | [k3] [k4] [k5] |     |                |     |     |             |     |     |
| -------------------- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | -------------- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- |
|                      |     |     |     |                |     | [NA] Precision |     |     | [NA] Recall |     |     |
correct = 3, all = 6 hit = 2, all = 5 correct = 1, all = 2 hit = 1, all = 3
precision = 3/6 = 0.5 recall = 2/5 = 0.4 precision = 1/2 = 0.5  recall = 1/3 = 0.33
Figure2: Anillustrationofhowweevaluatethepreci- Figure3: Anillustrationofhowweevaluatethepreci-
sionandrecallforgeneratedcitations. sionandrecallforconsciousincompetence([NA])
Eval(Liuetal.,2023b),whichdefinesthefollow- knowledgetripletfromminimumknowledgesetof
ingfourmetrics: 1)Coherence: whetherthegen- thequestion. (SeeFigure2.)
| erated | text is well-structured |     | and | well-organized. |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ----------------------- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
2)Consistency: whetherthegeneratedtextiscon- Recall We calculate citation recall for each
|                                  |     |     |     |     |            | knowledge | (0  | or 1) in minimum | knowledge |     | set, |
| -------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | --------- | --- | ---------------- | --------- | --- | ---- |
| sistentwiththeknowledgeprovided. |     |     |     |     | 3)Fluency: |           |     |                  |           |     |      |
andaverageoverallknowledgetogetmicrorecall.
whetherthegeneratedtextiswell-writtenandgram-
matical. 4)Relevance: howwellisthegenerated Recall=1ifandonlyiftheknowledgeifhitbya
|     |     |     |     |     |     | correctcitation. |     | (SeeFigure2.) |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- |
textrelevanttothequestion.
Weaverageoverallcitations/knowledgeinanan-
| We use | the model | text-davinci-003 |     |     | for evalua- |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | --------- | ---------------- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
swer,andaverageallanswer-levelprecision/recall
| tion, which | assigns | an integer | score | of  | 1 to 5 for |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ------- | ---------- | ----- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
eachmetric. WefollowthepromptprovidedinG- to get macro precision and recall. we calculate
microandmacroF1-Scorefromcorrespondingpre-
Eval(Liuetal.,2023b)andcustomizeitbasedon
cisionandrecall.
| ourtask.               | ThefullpromptsaregiveninappendixD. |     |     |     |     |                            |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 4.2 CitationEvaluation |                                    |     |     |     |     | 4.3 Text-CitationAlignment |     |     |     |     |     |
We evaluate the citation qualities from three as- Otherthanthetextqualityandcitationquality,we
pects: 1)Correctness,whichmeasureswhetherthe measure whether the generated citations provide
generatedknowledgematchesthegivenknowledge supportforthecorrespondingsentences. Apiece
from the knowledge graph, 2) Precision, which of useful knowledge is not an ideal citation if it
|            |          |     |               |     |           | isirrelevanttothesentenceitlinksto. |     |     |     | Therefore, |     |
| ---------- | -------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --------- | ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | --- |
| determines | how much | of  | the generated |     | citations |                                     |     |     |     |            |     |
arehelpfultoanswerthequestion,and3)Recall, we propose the metric “Alignment” which deter-
whichmeasureshowmuchoftheminimumknowl- mineswhetherthegeneratedcitationsarealigned
edgesetarecoveredbythegeneratedcitations. We to the sentences to which they belong. We use a
alsocalculatetheF1-ScorebasedonthePrecision state-of-the-art natural language inference (NLI)
andRecalltoreflecttheoverallqualityofcitations. model TRUE (Honovich et al., 2022), which is
|             |     |           |     |          |          | a fine-tuned | T5-11B  | (Raffel       | et al.,  | 2020) | model,  |
| ----------- | --- | --------- | --- | -------- | -------- | ------------ | ------- | ------------- | -------- | ----- | ------- |
| Correctness | We  | calculate | the | citation | correct- |              |         |               |          |       |         |
|             |     |           |     |          |          | to check     | whether | the generated | sentence |       | entails |
nessforeachcitation(0or1)andaverageoverall
|            |               |           |     |     |               | the generated |     | citation. Since | one sentence |     | could |
| ---------- | ------------- | --------- | --- | --- | ------------- | ------------- | --- | --------------- | ------------ | --- | ----- |
| citations. | Each citation | comprises |     | a   | triplet of 1) |               |     |                 |              |     |       |
havemultiplecitations,werunNLIonallsentence-
centerentityQID,2)relation3)neighbourentity
|     |     |     |     |     |     | citation | pairs and | report | the percentage | of  | entail- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | --------- | ------ | -------------- | --- | ------- |
value. Ifthegeneratedcitationiscompletewithall
ment. Additionally,weconducthumanevaluation
threeparts,andexactlymatchesatripletfromthe
in§5.4toshowcaseiftheautomaticevaluationis
question’sretrievedKG,correctness=1.
correlatedwithhumanjudgments.
| Precision | We calculate |     | citation | precision | for |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ------------ | --- | -------- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
4.4 ConsciousIncompetenceEvaluation
eachcitation(0or1)andaverageoverallcitations
togetmicroprecision. Precision=1foracitation Theoretically, each [NA] mark should map to
ifandonlyif1)itiscorrect,and2)itmatchesone a piece of knowledge absent from the retrieved

knowledgegraph. However,itisdifficulttoidentify cases,citationsdonotgiveadviceonthecor-
if sentence requires any absent knowledge since rectnessoftheanswer.
| thereisnogroundtruth. |     |     | Therefore,weconducta |     |     |     |                                 |     |     |     |     |            |
| --------------------- | --- | --- | -------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- |
|                       |     |     |                      |     |     |     | Bothunderstandingsareplausible, |     |     |     |     | andhencewe |
three-roundexperimenttomanuallycreateground
truthforabsentknowledge. Inround1,weselect haveconsideredbothofthemwhenwedesignmet-
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | rics. The | alignment | score | is  | designed | based on |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --------- | ----- | --- | -------- | -------- |
oneknowledgefromtheminimumknowledgeset,
|            |     |      |                  |     |           |     | the first                                | understanding, |     | which | measures | whether |
| ---------- | --- | ---- | ---------------- | --- | --------- | --- | ---------------------------------------- | -------------- | --- | ----- | -------- | ------- |
| and remove | it  | from | the ground-truth |     | knowledge |     |                                          |                |     |       |          |         |
|            |     |      |                  |     |           |     | thecitationsarecloselylinkedtotheanswer. |                |     |       |          | The     |
graph. WelettheLLMsattributetothisincomplete
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | precision | and recall | are | designed | for | the second |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | ---------- | --- | -------- | --- | ---------- |
knowledgegraphtogenerateanswers,wherebythe
understanding,wherethecitationsarecompletely
removedknowledgeformsthe“absentknowledge
decoupledfromtheanswer,andarecorrectifthey
| ground | truth”. | In subsequent |     | rounds, | we  | each re- |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ------- | ------------- | --- | ------- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
moveoneadditionalknowledgefromtheminimum providesupportforthequestion.
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | In addition, | we  | also | incorporate |     | an edge case |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | ---- | ----------- | --- | ------------ |
knowledgeset,simulatingaknowledgegraphwith
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | fordesignofthe[NA]precisioncalculation. |     |     |     |     | Ifan |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---- |
moreseriouscoverageproblem.
NA-markedsentencedoesnotanswerthequestion
| We employ |     | the NLI | model | TRUE | (Honovich |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | --- | ------- | ----- | ---- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
atall,itisconsideredcorrectinthe[NA]precision
| et al., 2022)          | to         | measure | the       | alignment         |     | between |                   |                                 |          |     |         |               |
| ---------------------- | ---------- | ------- | --------- | ----------------- | --- | ------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------- | -------- | --- | ------- | ------------- |
|                        |            |         |           |                   |     |         | calculation.      | Inthiscase,theLLMcorrectlyiden- |          |     |         |               |
| sentencesandknowledge. |            |         |           | Asentencewith[NA] |     |         |                   |                                 |          |     |         |               |
|                        |            |         |           |                   |     |         | tifies a sentence | that                            | requires |     | further | verification. |
| should                 | be aligned | to      | an absent | knowledge.        |     | We      |                   |                                 |          |     |         |               |
calculateprecisionandrecallfor[NA].
|               |     |                             |     |     |     |     | 5 Experiments |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | --------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [NA]precision |     | Wecalculate[NA]precisionfor |     |     |     |     |               |     |     |     |     |     |
eachsentencewith[NA](0or1)andaverageover Werunthroughthemethodpipelinedescribedin
| all sentences | with | [NA]. | Precision |     | = 1 for | a sen- |                  |      |     |             |     |                |
| ------------- | ---- | ----- | --------- | --- | ------- | ------ | ---------------- | ---- | --- | ----------- | --- | -------------- |
|               |      |       |           |     |         |        | § 3 on different | LLMs |     | and present |     | the results in |
tenceifandonlyifitentailsoneknowledgetriplet
|             |           |     |     |        |           |      | thissection. | Sinceweaimtoobtainamoreaccu- |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | --------- | --- | --- | ------ | --------- | ---- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| from absent | knowledge |     | set | of the | question. | (See |              |                              |     |     |     |     |
rateevaluation,weconductourmainexperiments
| Figure3.) |     |     |     |     |     |     | on the specific | questions |     | setting, | since | the mini- |
| --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | --------- | --- | -------- | ----- | --------- |
mumknowledgesethasahigherrelevanceonthe
| [NA] Recall |       | We calculate |           | [NA]      | recall | for each |                    |     |                           |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ----- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------ | --- | ------------------------- | --- | --- | --- |
|             |       |              |           |           |        |          | specificquestions. |     | However,wewillalsoprovide |     |     |     |
| knowledge   | (0 or | 1)           | in absent | knowledge |        | set and  |                    |     |                           |     |     |     |
evaluationresultsforthegeneralquestionsin§5.5
| average | over all | absent | knowledge. |     | Recall | = 1 if |             |          |     |                |     |         |
| ------- | -------- | ------ | ---------- | --- | ------ | ------ | ----------- | -------- | --- | -------------- | --- | ------- |
|         |          |        |            |     |        |        | as ablation | studies. | The | implementation |     | details |
andonlyiftheknowledgeifentailedbyasentence
arereportedinappendixB.Wereportfivemodel
with[NA].(SeeFigure3.)
baselinesfrombothopenandclosedsourcemodel
families:
4.5 DiscussiononEvaluationmetrics
Inthissection,wediscussontheevaluationmetrics OpenAIModels WeuseGPT4(gpt-4-0314)and
ofbenchmarkBioBaLMA.Wedesigntheevalua- ChatGPT(gpt-3.5-turbo-0301)forourexperiments.
tionmetricsfrommultipledimensionstoincorpo- ForChatGPT,weexperimentontemperatureof0.1,
ratedifferentunderstandingsonwhatmakesahigh
0.5,and0.9toobtaindifferentlevelsofrandomness
| qualitycitation. |               |     |        |      |     |        | andcreativityingeneration. |                                |     |     |     |     |
| ---------------- | ------------- | --- | ------ | ---- | --- | ------ | -------------------------- | ------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                  |               |     |        |      |     |        | LLaMA                      | WeconductexperimentswithLLaMA- |     |     |     |     |
| • One            | understanding |     | argues | when | the | answer |                            |                                |     |     |     |     |
7B(Touvronetal.,2023)andLLaMA-13Bsince
containsmistakes,evenifthecitationiscor-
rectlyansweringthequestions,itcannotrep- they are powerful open-source models that are
resentgoodLLMattributionperformance. In widely accessible. We have also conducted hu-
|      |       |          |         |     |            |      | man instruction |     | tuned | LLaMA | models, | includ- |
| ---- | ----- | -------- | ------- | --- | ---------- | ---- | --------------- | --- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------- |
| this | case, | citation | quality | is  | considered | as a |                 |     |       |       |         |         |
measure of overall attribution performance, ing Alpaca-7B (Taori et al., 2023) and Vicuna-
| includingtheanswerquality. |     |     |     |     |     |     | 13B(Chiangetal.,2023). |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                            |     |     |     |     |     |     | 5.1 MainResults        |     |     |     |     |     |
• Theotherunderstandingarguesforacomplete
decouplingofanswerandcitationquality. In Citation Quality Evaluation We present the
this scenario, even if the answer is wrong, mainresultsinTable3. Forcorrectness,wereport
thecitationisvaluableaslongasitprovides on a micro scale. For precision, recall, and F1-
reasonablesupportforthequestion. Insuch Score,wereportonbothmicroandmacroscales.

|              |     |        |       |       | Micro |       |      |      |       | Macro |       |      |
| ------------ | --- | ------ | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ---- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ---- |
| Model        |     | Align. | Corr. |       | Prec. | Rec.  | F1.  |      | Prec. |       | Rec.  | F1.  |
| GPT-4(0.5)   |     | 92.0   | 97.6  |       | 36.0  | 43.6  | 39.4 | 40.7 |       | 43.9  |       | 42.3 |
|              |     |        | (1.5) | (0.1) | (0.6) | (1.0) |      |      | (1.1) |       | (1.0) |      |
| ChatGPT(0.1) |     | 85.9   | 96.1  |       | 29.0  | 50.8  | 36.9 | 32.7 |       | 51.2  |       | 39.9 |
|              |     |        | (2.5) | (0.4) | (0.0) | (0.3) |      |      | (0.4) |       | (0.3) |      |
| ChatGPT(0.5) |     | 84.5   | 94.8  |       | 29.9  | 49.0  | 37.2 | 34.1 |       | 49.4  |       | 40.4 |
|              |     |        | (1.1) | (0.2) | (0.2) | (0.8) |      |      | (0.5) |       | (0.9) |      |
| ChatGPT(0.9) |     | 84.1   | 94.2  |       | 28.7  | 49.0  | 36.2 | 32.5 |       | 49.4  |       | 39.2 |
|              |     |        | (0.5) | (0.4) | (0.2) | (0.3) |      |      | (0.2) |       | (0.3) |      |
| Alpaca-7B    |     | 46.9   | 78.9  |       | 14.9  | 19.4  | 16.8 | 19.8 |       | 19.9  |       | 19.8 |
|              |     |        | (0.9) | (0.6) | (1.4) | (0.2) |      |      | (0.4) |       | (0.3) |      |
| LLaMA-7B     |     | 47.8   | 70.2  |       | 7.7   | 41.1  | 13.0 | 11.0 |       | 41.4  |       | 17.4 |
|              |     |        | (0.8) | (0.2) | (2.4) | (0.7) |      |      | (1.9) |       | (0.7) |      |
| LLaMA-13B    |     | 62.1   | 71.7  |       | 10.5  | 43.7  | 16.9 | 13.8 |       | 43.5  |       | 20.9 |
|              |     |        | (0.4) | (1.9) | (3.3) | (1.0) |      |      | (2.2) |       | (1.0) |      |
| Vicuna-13B   |     | 66.9   | 59.0  |       | 14.9  | 16.8  | 15.8 | 15.1 |       | 17.0  |       | 16.0 |
|              |     |        | (0.1) | (0.6) | (0.2) | (0.0) |      |      | (0.0) |       | (0.0) |      |
Table3: CitationQualityOpenAImodelsandLLaMAfamilymodels. ThefirstfivemetricsarereportedinMicro,
andthelastthreemetricsarereportedinMacro. Wealsoreporttextcitationalignment.
Theexperimentalresultsarethemeanofthreeruns, Model Coh. Con. Flu. Rel.
andthestandarddeviationisreportedinbrackets. GPT-4(0.5) 4.48 4.89 4.64 4.72
|     |     |     |     |     |     | ChatGPT(0.1) |     | 4.57 |     | 4.94 | 4.69 | 4.83 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
Ingeneral,thereisaroomofimprovementfor
allmodelssincenomodelcanachieveamicroF1 ChatGPT(0.5) 4.57 4.94 4.71 4.81
Scoreofhigherthan40. TheOpenAImodelsout- ChatGPT(0.9) 4.52 4.91 4.67 4.79
perform the LLaMA family models in almost all Alpaca-7B 4.10 4.46 4.23 3.76
metrics. Thecorrectnessisabove94forOpenAI LLaMa-7B 3.06 3.79 3.62 2.96
models,butaround70forLLaMAbasedmodels. LLaMa-13B 3.60 4.23 3.94 3.56
ForChatGPT,temperaturedoesnotplayasignifi- Vicuna-13B 3.67 4.50 3.96 3.64
|     |     |     |     |     |     | Table4: | Evaluationongeneratedtextquality. |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
cantrolesinceiteffectonF1Scoreisatmost1.2.
| The GPT-4 | model | achieves | the best | performance |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ----- | -------- | -------- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
across almost all metrics, except for recall, since Removed Corr. Prec. Rec. F1.
|       |        |         |                  |     |         | 0(gold) | 95.5 |     | 30.1 | 57.1 | 39.4 |     |
| ----- | ------ | ------- | ---------------- | --- | ------- | ------- | ---- | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- |
| GPT-4 | models | tend to | generate shorter |     | answers |         |      |     |      |      |      |     |
withfewercitations,resultinginhigherprecision. 1 94.1 26.1 42.5 32.3
While LLaMA is better at Recall by generating 2 94.0 21.0 31.4 25.2
|                               |     |     |               |     |     | 3       | 93.9                                       |     | 16.3 | 20.4 | 18.1 |     |
| ----------------------------- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | ------- | ------------------------------------------ | --- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- |
| longanswerswithmanycitations. |     |     | TheF1-Scoreof |     |     |         |                                            |     |      |      |      |     |
|                               |     |     |               |     |     | Table5: | Citationqualityevaluationforgeneratedtexts |     |      |      |      |     |
modelsfromthesamefamilyareclosetoonean-
other,showingthatourautomaticevaluationmetric usingaKGwithNpiecesofknowledgeremoved.
designedisreliable.
|                        |          |     |                    |      |      | are capable    | of                               | generating |          | answers   | that | are not  |
| ---------------------- | -------- | --- | ------------------ | ---- | ---- | -------------- | -------------------------------- | ---------- | -------- | --------- | ---- | -------- |
| Text-CitationAlignment |          |     | FromTable3,similar |      |      |                |                                  |            |          |           |      |          |
|                        |          |     |                    |      |      | contradictory  | to                               | the        | provided | knowledge |      | or self- |
| to citation            | quality, | the | OpenAI models      | also | out- |                |                                  |            |          |           |      |          |
|                        |          |     |                    |      |      | contradictory. | However,therelevanceisrelatively |            |          |           |      |          |
performtheLLaMAbasedmodelsontext-citation
|            |                                  |          |              |            |     | low for      | smaller | models, | indicating |     | the     | difficulty |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | -------- | ------------ | ---------- | --- | ------------ | ------- | ------- | ---------- | --- | ------- | ---------- |
| alignment. | Inaddition,modelswith7B,13B,175B |          |              |            |     |              |         |         |            |     |         |            |
|            |                                  |          |              |            |     | these models | face    | in      | generating |     | answers | that are   |
| (ChatGPT), | and                              | trillion | level (GPT4) | parameters |     |              |         |         |            |     |         |            |
relevanttothequestions.
haveanalignmentscoreof40+,60+,80+,and92
| respectively.                      | LLaMA-13Bmodelhasanimprove- |     |     |     |      |                           |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------------------------------- | --------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ---- | ------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                                    |                             |     |     |     |      | 5.2 ConsciousIncompetence |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| mentof14.3comparedtoLLaMA-7Bmodel. |                             |     |     |     | This |                           |     |     |     |     |     |     |
showsthatparametersizemayplayanimportant Wefirstevaluatecitationqualityofthegenerated
|     |     |     |     |     |     | text with | knowledge |     | removed | using |     | method de- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --------- | --- | ------- | ----- | --- | ---------- |
roleingeneratingsentencesandcitationswithgood
|     |     |     |     |     |     | scribed | in § 4.4. | From | Table | 5,  | the | removal of |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --------- | ---- | ----- | --- | --- | ---------- |
alignment.
requiredknowledgehasaminimalimpactoncor-
rectness,butsignificantlyaffectscitationprecision
| TextQualityEvaluation |     |     | Wepresenttheevalu- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------------- | --- | --- | ------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ation of generated text quality in Table 4. From andrecall. Withmoreknowledgeabsentfrompro-
theresults,wefindthatOpenAImodels,ingeneral, videdknowledgegraph,bothprecisionandrecall
have better text quality in all metrics compared dropsdrastically,demonstratingthatthecoverage
to LLaMA family models, which corresponds to issueposesaconsiderablechallengetogenerating
thecitationevaluationresults. Allmodelsexhibit answerswithhighqualitycitations.
ratherhighconsistency,indicatingthattheLLMs Next, we evaluate [NA] precision and recall.

Experiment Result on Conscious Incompetence Retrieval Analysis
precision
| 24  | recall |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
F1_Score
80
22
precision
| erocS 20 |     |     |     |     | erocS 60 |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
recall
F1_Score
| 18  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     | correctness |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | --- |
40
16
20
14
|     | one                         | two |     | three |     | gold | 80  | 60                 |     | 40 20 |     |
| --- | --------------------------- | --- | --- | ----- | --- | ---- | --- | ------------------ | --- | ----- | --- |
|     | number of knowledge removed |     |     |       |     |      |     | Retrieval Accuracy |     |       |     |
Figure4: Precision,Recall,andF1-Scorefor[NA]. Figure5: Citationevaluation(Micro)ofgeneratedtexts
|     |     |     |     |     | using | knowledge | graphs | with | retrieval | accuracy | 100 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | --------- | ------ | ---- | --------- | -------- | --- |
(gold),80,60,40,and20.
| From Figure | 4, The | recall is | stable | at about 15 |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ------ | --------- | ------ | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
regardless of the number of absent knowledge. Alignment HumanAvg.
ThisindicatesthatthecurrentLLMs haveability ChatGPT(0.5) 84.5 82.0
to identify absent knowledge to a limited extent. LLaMA-7B 47.8 45.5
While precision and F1-Score exhibit a clear up- Vicuna-13B 66.9 64.5
ward trend, which shows that with more absent Table6: ResultofHumanEvaluationontext-citation
| knowledge | in KG,        | [NA] enables | generated | out-        | alignment |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ------------- | ------------ | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| puts to   | locate absent | knowledge    | more      | accurately. |           |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Therefore,the“ConsciousIncompetence”setting
|     |     |     |     |     | (42.5), | demonstrating |     | the | potential | of the | model |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | ------------- | --- | --- | --------- | ------ | ----- |
playsanincreasinglycrucialrolewhenthecover-
togeneratehigh-qualitycitationsunderperfectre-
ageproblemofknowledgegraphismoreserious.
|     |     |     |     |     | trievalconditions. |     |     | Inpractice,aretrievalaccuracy |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------ | --- | --- | ----------------------------- | --- | --- | --- |
of80isclosesttotheactualscenarioofourexper-
5.3 RetrievalAnalysis
|     |     |     |     |     | iment | (our retrieval |     | accuracy | is  | 75.9). Therefore, |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- | -------------- | --- | -------- | --- | ----------------- | --- |
Weconductanablationstudytoexaminetheimpact whenretrievalaccuracyisreasonablyhigh,thecor-
ofretrievalaccuracyonthemodel’soutput. Theex- rectnessofcitationsisnotthemostsignificantcon-
perimentsimulatesretrievalaccuracyfrom100to cerncomparedtorecall.
| 20atintervalsof20. |     | Westartwiththegroundtruth |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------ | --- | ------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
5.4 HumanEvaluation
| knowledge | graphs | that we used | for | question con- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ------ | ------------ | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
struction. Ineachsubsequentrounds,werandomly Weconducthumanevaluationtoverifythecorrela-
replaceadditional20%knowledgegraphswithir- tionbetweenautomaticevaluationandhumanjudg-
relevant knowledge graphs to simulate retrieving ment. Werandomlysample100sentence-citation
wronggraphs. Theresultsforcitationqualityare pairs from each of the three baselines: ChatGPT
inFigure5. AnswersaregeneratedusingChatGPT (temperature 0.5), LLaMA-7B, and Vicuna-13B.
withatemperatureof0.5.
|     |     |     |     |     | We request | two | proficient |     | English | annotators | for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ------- | ---------- | --- |
The results show clear downward trends in eachbaselinetodetermineifthecitationalignsto
all metrics as expected when retrieval accuracy thesentenceandprovidessupportforit. Thereason
dropped. Amongprecisionandrecall,theimpact wechoosemetricalignmenthereisinappendixC,
ofpoorretrievalqualityonrecall(green)ismuch withinstructiontoannotatorsandIAA.
moresignificantthanonprecision(yellow). This The comparison between automatically calcu-
indicatesthatthemodelhastheabilitytofilterout lated Alignment and human evaluation results is
incorrectknowledgetoacertainextent,resulting showninTable6. Forallthreebaselines,theauto-
in less noticeable impact on precision compared maticandhumanscoresareclosewithagapwithin
torecall. Thereductioninrecallwasnearlylinear 2.5,despitethesignificantdifferencesamongthe
as retrieval accuracy decreased, which is under- baselines. This indicates a strong correlation be-
standablesinceaknowledgecannotbecitedifitis tweentheautomaticallycalculatedalignmentand
notprovided. Thegreatestdropinrecalloccurred humanjudgments. Theexperimentresultsdemon-
between the ground truth (57.1) and 80 accuracy stratethattheautomaticevaluationservesasareli-

|     |     |     | CitationEval. |     |     |     | TextEval. |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- |
Setting Model Align. Corr. Prec. Rec. F1. Coh. Con. Flu. Rel.
General GPT-4(0.5) 90.9 97.6 30.8 42.1 35.6 4.38 4.77 4.48 4.48
|     | ChatGPT(0.5) | 82.7 | 94.5 | 25.2 47.4 | 32.9 | 4.64 | 4.89 | 4.45 | 4.70 |     |
| --- | ------------ | ---- | ---- | --------- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- |
Specific GPT-4(0.5) 92.0 97.6 36.0 43.6 39.4 4.48 4.89 4.64 4.72
|     | ChatGPT(0.5) | 84.5 | 94.8 | 29.9 49.0 | 37.2 | 4.57 | 4.94 | 4.71 | 4.81 |     |
| --- | ------------ | ---- | ---- | --------- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- |
Table7: ComparisonofevaluationresultsonGeneralandSpecificquestionsetting
ablemeasurementofthealignmentbetweengener- documentsbutnotknowledgegraph.
atedtextsandcitations.
|     |     |     |     | Evaluation | (Rashkinetal.,2021)definethe“At- |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | -------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
5.5 GeneralandSpecificQuestions
|     |     |     |     | tributable | to Identified |     | Sources” | (AIS) |     | to mea- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | ------------- | --- | -------- | ----- | --- | ------- |
We compare experiments results of text, citation surewhethermodel-generatedstatementsaresup-
(micro), and alignment between the general and portedbyunderlyingsources. (Bohnetetal.,2022)
specificquestionsinTable7. Theresultsshowthat studyanautomaticmetric(AutoAIS)thatformu-
the same model’s answers on specific questions lates evaluation of automated question answer-
outperformthoseongeneralquestionsinalmostall ing as a NLI task. (Yue et al., 2023) investigate
metrics. Thefindingisnotsurprisingbecausethe theautomaticevaluationofattributionbyprompt-
specific questions provide clearer instructions to ing LLMs and fine-tuning smaller LMs. (Liu
themodelsonwhichknowledgetouse. Inaddition, et al., 2023a) conduct human evaluation to audit
thegeneralquestionsinthedatasetareinherently generative search engines for their citation quali-
looselybondedtotheminimumknowledgeset,and ties. ALCE(Gaoetal.,2023)evaluatesgenerated
hencehaveimpactsontheevaluationresults. This answers by comparing with gold answers using
experimentshowsatrade-offbetweenhowexplic-
|     |     |     |     | MAUVE, | and calculates |     | precision | and | recall | for |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | -------------- | --- | --------- | --- | ------ | --- |
itlythequestioncontextmentionstheknowledge, citationsusingNLI.Tothebestofourknowledge,
and how irreplaceably the knowledge is required ourevaluationmethodsarethefirstframeworkthat
bythequestion. Thespecificquestionstargetthe requiresnohumanannotateddata.
knowledgemoreexplicitlyinthequestioncontext,
andhencecoverthescopeoftheparagraphbetter.
7 Conclusion
Itstandsforanupperboundforknowledgecover-
ageandalowerboundforquestionnaturalness.The
WeproposeKaLMAthatcomprisesanewdataset
generalquestionsimplicitlytargettheknowledge
|                 |              |       |               | BioKaLMA, | a             | pipeline | for generating |     | attributed |        |
| --------------- | ------------ | ----- | ------------- | --------- | ------------- | -------- | -------------- | --- | ---------- | ------ |
| in the question | context, and | there | loosely cover |           |               |          |                |     |            |        |
|                 |              |       |               | answers   | by retrieving |          | from KGs,      | and | a set      | of au- |
thescopeoftheparagraph. Itstandsforanupper tomatic evaluation metrics to assess text quality,
boundforquestionnaturalnessandalowerbound
|     |     |     |     | citation | quality, | and text-citation |     | alignment. |     | We  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | -------- | ----------------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- |
forknowledgecoverage.
|     |     |     |     | introduce | the “Conscious |     | Incompetence” |     |     | setting, |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | -------------- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | -------- |
enablingLLMstoidentifytheknowledgerequired
6 RelatedWork
tosupporttheanswersbutisabsentfromtheKG.
Retrieval-augmented LLMs KiC (Pan et al., Through this benchmark, we address three chal-
2022)empowermodelswithexternalmemoryof lenges: incorporating diverse attribution sources,
|                  |           |           |       | limited | attribution | source | coverage, |     | and | the ab- |
| ---------------- | --------- | --------- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | ------ | --------- | --- | --- | ------- |
| multiple formats | including | knowledge | graph | but     |             |        |           |     |     |         |
does not explore attribution. WebGPT (Nakano sence of human annotated ground truth for auto-
| etal.,2021)outsourcesdocumentretrievaltoMi- |     |     |     | maticevaluation. |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
crosoftBingandfine-tunesGPT3toanswerques- Ourextensiveexperimentalresultsdemonstrate
tions. GopherCite(Menicketal.,2022)fine-tunes that current LLMs still have room for improve-
aGopher(Raeetal.,2021)modeltogeneratetext ment when utilizing KGs as attribution sources.
alongside quotes extracted from Google search. We also highlight the increasing effectiveness of
ALCE(Gaoetal.,2023)retrievestop-kpassages “ConsciousIncompetence”settingasthecoverage
fromWikipediaandasksLLMstogenerateoutputs of attribution source becomes worse. Lastly, we
with citations to corresponding supporting docu- provethecrucialroleofretrievalaccuracyingen-
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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | ------- | ------ | --------- | ------ |
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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----- | ------- | -------- |
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| Can Xu, Qingfeng | Sun, | Kai | Zheng, Xiubo | Geng, |                       |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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|     |     |     |     |     | tion pipeline. | Using |     | this pipeline, |     | we are | able to |
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WeiYang,YuqingXie,AileenLin,XingyuLi,Luchen
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| End-to-end      | open-domain                    | question | answering      | with  | domains.            |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| bertserini.     | arXivpreprintarXiv:1902.01718. |          |                |       |                     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
|                 |                                |          |                |       | A.1 PersonSelection |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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ficultytoLLMs,weinvolvemorethanoneperson
arXiv:2305.06311.
|     |     |     |     |     | in each question. |     | In  | addition, | we  | need high | qual- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --------- | ----- |
TianyiZhang,VarshaKishore,FelixWu,KilianQWein- ity paragraphs for subsequent dataset generation
berger, and Yoav Artzi. 2019a. Bertscore: Eval- steps. Therefore, we utilize name pairs and para-
| uating text | generation | with | bert. arXiv | preprint |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------- | ---------- | ---- | ----------- | -------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
graphsfromthebiographicaldatabase,whichis
arXiv:1904.09675.
adatabasespecificallydesignedfortherelationex-
YuanZhang,JasonBaldridge,andLuhengHe.2019b. traction(RE)task. Eachpieceofdatafromthebio-
PAWS:Paraphraseadversariesfromwordscrambling.
graphicaldatabaseincludesashortparagraph,and
InProceedingsofthe2019ConferenceoftheNorth
|     |     |     |     |     | arelationtripleextractedfromtheparagraph. |     |     |     |     |     | The |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
AmericanChapteroftheAssociationforComputa-
relationtripleconsistsoftwopeopleandtheirre-
| tionalLinguistics: |     | HumanLanguageTechnologies, |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------ | --- | -------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Volume1(LongandShortPapers),pages1298–1308, lationshipsuchas<WilliamShakespeare,Spouse,
Minneapolis,Minnesota.AssociationforComputa-
|     |     |     |     |     | Anne Hathaway>. |     | The | biographical |     | database | in- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | -------- | --- |
tionalLinguistics.
cludesanautomaticallyextractedsetandahuman
GuidoZucconandBevanKoopman.2023. Drchatgpt, annotated set. We specifically choose the human
tellmewhatiwanttohear: Howpromptknowledge annotated set from the database to ensure high-
| impacts health | answer | correctness. | arXiv | preprint |                   |     |                              |     |     |     |     |
| -------------- | ------ | ------------ | ----- | -------- | ----------------- | --- | ---------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                |        |              |       |          | qualitynamepairs. |     | Toavoidpotentialambiguities, |     |     |     |     |
arXiv:2302.13793.
wefilteroutdataifanynameinthetripleisincom-
|     |     |     |     |     | plete. Inpractice,weconsideranamecompleteif |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
ithasatleastafamilynameandasurname.
|     |     |     |     |     | A.2 NameDisambiguation |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Duetothepresenceofduplicatenames(e.g.,Anne
|     |     |     |     |     | Hathaway: | the | actress, | or  | the wife | of  | William |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | -------- | --- | -------- | --- | ------- |
Shakespeare),weperformnamedisambiguationto
mapeachnameinthetripletoauniqueentityfrom
WeutilizeWikiData4
|     |     |     |     |     | theknowledgegraph.                          |     |     |     |     |     | (Vran- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ |
|     |     |     |     |     | decˇic´ andKrötzsch,2014)astheknowledgebase |     |     |     |     |     |        |
andemploySPARQL(Pérezetal.,2009)queriesto
|     |     |     |     |     | retrieveallentitiesassociatedwiththename. |     |        |     |         |        | Wiki- |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----------------------------------------- | --- | ------ | --- | ------- | ------ | ----- |
|     |     |     |     |     | Data assigns                              | a   | unique | QID | to each | entity | which |
distinguishesbetweenentitieswiththesamename.
|     |     |     |     |     | InWikiData,     | eachentityrepresentsanodeinthe |                              |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|     |     |     |     |     | knowledgegraph. |                                | Sinceeachtripleconsistsoftwo |     |     |     |     |
namesandonerelation,weselectthetwoentities
|     |     |     |     |     | obtained             | from          | the query | if                       | they are     | connected | to        |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------------- | ------------- | --------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | --------- | --------- |
|     |     |     |     |     | eachotheronWikiData. |               |           | Additionally,theconnect- |              |           |           |
|     |     |     |     |     | ing edge             | should        | align     | with                     | the relation |           | specified |
|     |     |     |     |     | in the triple.       | Subsequently, |           |                          | we extract   |           | the one-  |
hopsub-graphcenteredaroundeachpersonnode,
|     |     |     |     |     | which provides |     | properties |     | related | to the | person, |
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4https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/
Wikidata:Main_Page

such as gender, birth date, occupation, and more. each relation r in the dataset with size N. The
Weconvertambiguouspersonnamesfromprevious coherence score is calculated through perplexity.
stepstouniqueQIDfromWikiData. Theextracted We convert each piece of knowledge to a simple
sub-graphscontainallknowledgefromWikiData sentencebyapplyingatemplate. Forinstance,the
about the selected people. We call the extracted knowledge [Artemisia, place of birth, Rome] is
graphs“knowledgepool”. convertedto“Artemisia’splaceofbirthisRome”.
TherearethreetemplatesdependingonthePOSof
A.3 EvolutionaryQuestionGeneration
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     | therelation. | Weappendeachsentencetotheorig- |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------ | ------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Weemployan“evolutionaryquestiongeneration” inal paragraph and calculate normalized inverse
approachinspiredbyWizardLM(Xuetal.,2023) perplexitytoobtaincoherencescore. Theoverall
andDKGen(Qianetal.,2023),wherewegradually score is a weighted sum of specificity score and
| increasethesetofknowledgerequiredbyinjecting |         |             |     |     |      |            | coherencescore: |                  |     |     |     |     |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | --- | --- | ---- | ---------- | --------------- | ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| knowledge                                    | through | iterations. |     | In  | each | iteration, |                 |                  |     |     |     |     |
|                                              |         |             |     |     |      |            | Score           | =α·log(2·N/Count |     |     | )   |     |
| LLMsextendtheparagraphwithonesentenceby      |         |             |     |     |      |            |                 | r                |     |     | r   |     |
(1)
|                                      |     |     |     |     |     |          |     |     | +(1−α)·softmax(1/perp |     |     | )   |
| ------------------------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --------------------- | --- | --- | --- |
| incorporatingtheadditionalknowledge. |     |     |     |     |     | Afterthe |     |     |                       |     |     | r   |
lastiteration,LLMsproposetwoquestionsaccord-
ing to the extended paragraph, one is a general In each iteration, we leverage the “text-davinci-
|          |         |       |      |          |          |     | 003” | model for | annotation | or  | generation | with in- |
| -------- | ------- | ----- | ---- | -------- | -------- | --- | ---- | --------- | ---------- | --- | ---------- | -------- |
| version, | and the | other | is a | specific | version. | The |      |           |            |     |            |          |
generalquestionismoreconcise,andthespecific contextlearning. Weprovideseparateinstructions
question is more detailed. Both questions target anddemonstrationsforgeneralandspecificques-
tions. Thedetailedprompttemplatesusedispro-
| the same  | set        | of knowledge. |           | All | injected | knowl- |       |                 |     |       |         |           |
| --------- | ---------- | ------------- | --------- | --- | -------- | ------ | ----- | --------------- | --- | ----- | ------- | --------- |
|           |            |               |           |     |          |        | vided | in the appendix |     | D. We | provide | one human |
| edge form | a “minimum |               | knowledge |     | set”,    | which  |       |                 |     |       |         |           |
includes the least knowledge required to answer writtendemonstration. Someexamplesoffullques-
theproposedquestion(Table1). Wedonotthrow tionevolutionprocessareprovidedinappendixE.
Inpractice,weemployfiveiterationstoensuresuf-
allknowledgetoLLMatoncetoformaparagraph
because extending the paragraph and knowledge ficientcomplexityinthequestionswithoutmaking
| setincrementallyallowustoselecttheappropriate |     |     |     |     |     |     | themoverlytedious. |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
knowledgeaftereachiteration.
B ExperimentDetails
| In the         | first | iteration, | LLMs         | annotate |          | the orig- |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------- | ----- | ---------- | ------------ | -------- | -------- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| inal paragraph |       | from       | Biographical |          | Database | with      |     |     |     |     |     |     |
B.1 MainExperiment
| theknowledgefromthe“knowledgepool”. |     |     |     |     |     | Forin- |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Forthemainexperiments,werunreachmodelwith
stance,thesentence“ArtemisiawasborninRome.”
isannotatedwithknowledge[Artemisia,placeof differentseedsforthreetimes. TheOpenAIfam-
birth,Rome]. Ineachsubsequentiteration,wese- ily models are implemented using OpenAI APIs.
RunningoneroundofexperimentwithChatGPT
lectapieceofappropriateknowledgeaccordingto
theexistingparagraph. Asentencewithappropriate modeltakesapproximately1hour,andcostsabout
knowledgeshouldhavegoodspecificityandcoher- 3 USD. Running one round of experiment with
|                   |     |        |     |                  |     |        | GPT4      | model | takes approximately |      | 1.5   | to 2 hours, |
| ----------------- | --- | ------ | --- | ---------------- | --- | ------ | --------- | ----- | ------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----------- |
| ence. Specificity |     | refers | to  | the significance |     | of the |           |       |                     |      |       |             |
|                   |     |        |     |                  |     |        | and costs | about | 60 USD.             | Each | LLaMA | family      |
knowledge,suchthatitisnottoogeneralortrivial.
Coherence refers to the naturalness of the addi- model is run on one TESLA V100 GPU, where
eachruntakesabout6to8hoursforAlpaca-7Band
| tional knowledge. |     | The | added | knowledge |     | should |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ----------------- | --- | --- | ----- | --------- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Vicuna-13B,andabout12-16hoursforLLaMA-7B
notdeviatefromtheexistingparagraphandshould
| becoherentwhenreading. |     |     |     | Duringknowledgese- |     |     | andLLaMA-13B. |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ------------------ | --- | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
lection,eachpieceofknowledgeisassignedascore
B.2 TextQualityEvaluation
byaddingthespecificityscoreandcoherencescore.
The specificity score measures the uniqueness of Fortextqualityevaluation,weusethemodel“text-
the knowledge. We discourage the system from davinci-003”withtemperature0toensurestability
selectingtoofrequentrelationtypeslike“gender” and reproducibility of the results. We randomly
or "date of birth" which may be less informative. sample 100 outputs from each baseline and take
A less frequent relation tend to provide a knowl- three runs to report mean. We do not report stan-
edgespecifictotheperson. DerivedfromIDF,we dard deviation since most of them are mostly in-
calculatethenumberofoccurrencesCount for significantlysmall(below0.1).
r

| B.3 NLI |     |     |     |     |     | 5 means |     | the annotator |     | feels | that he | or she |
| ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- | ------------- | --- | ----- | ------- | ------ |
maybeinterestedinthisquestionundersome
Fortheautomaticevaluationoftextcitationalign-
circumstances,and1meanstheopposite.
| ment and | evaluation |     | of the | known unknown | cita- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ---------- | --- | ------ | ------------- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
tions,weimplementtheTRUEmodelfromHug-
| gingFace5, | which | was | trained | on  | SNLI (Bow- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------- | ----- | --- | ------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Theagreementbetweenthetwoannotatorsareas
man et al., 2015), MNLI (Williams et al., 2018), follow: theagreementbetweenthemis100%for
Fever (Thorne et al., 2018), Scitail (Khot et al., authenticityand86%forrelevance. Sincetheeval-
| 2018), | PAWS | (Zhang | et  | al., 2019b), | and Vita- |            |             |     |                  |     |     |       |
| ------ | ---- | ------ | --- | ------------ | --------- | ---------- | ----------- | --- | ---------------- | --- | --- | ----- |
|        |      |        |     |              |           | uation for | naturalness |     | and significance |     | are | score |
minC (Schuster et al., 2021). The model uses based, in 92% and 90% of the evaluated datasets
thepromptof“premise: {PREMISE}hypothesis: respectively,thescoredifferencebetweenthetwo
{HYPOTHESIS}”. Foreachsentencecitationpair, annotatorsisnolargerthan1.
weplacethesentenceinthe“PREMISE”,andthe
citationtothe“HYPOTHESIS”,likethefollowing:
C.2 GeneratedTextEvaluation
| “premise: | {HertwigservedasaprofessorattheUni- |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
versityofJenaforthelast40yearsofhiscareer.}
Amongtextqualityevaluation,citationqualityeval-
hypothesis: {employer: UniversityofJena}” uation,andtext-citationalignment,weconducthu-
|     |     |     |     |     |     | man evaluation |     | on text-citation |     | alignment. |     | Text |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | ---------------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ---- |
C HumanEvaluation
|     |     |     |     |     |     | qualityevaluationisconductedusingG-Eval. |     |     |     |     |     | We  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
acknowledgethisisnotaperfectmetric,butthehu-
C.1 DatasetEvaluation
manevaluationisconductedin(Liuetal.,2023b).
| Toevaluatethedatasetquality, |     |     |     | wehavetwoindi- |     |           |         |       |        |            |     |         |
| ---------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | --- | --------- | ------- | ----- | ------ | ---------- | --- | ------- |
|                              |     |     |     |                |     | The focus | is this | paper | is not | to improve |     | G-Eval. |
vidualannotatorswhoareproficientintheEnglish
Citationqualityevaluationisconductedwithlook-
| language. | Belowaretheexactmethodforevaluat- |     |     |     |     |         |             |         |     |           |     |           |
| --------- | --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | ----------- | ------- | --- | --------- | --- | --------- |
|           |                                   |     |     |     |     | ing for | exact match | between |     | generated |     | citations |
ingeachmetric:
andminimumknowledgeset,whichisanobjective
| • Authenticity. |     | Weasktheannotatorstocheck |     |     |     |             |                                     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------------- | --- | ------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | ----------- | ----------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|                 |     |                           |     |     |     | evaluation. | Thetext-citationalignmentevaluation |     |     |     |     |     |
from WikiPedia and understand the back- isconductedusingNLI,whichwearenotcertain
groundstoriesofthementionedpeople,and ifentailmentmeansprovidingsupport. Inaddition,
decideifthegeneratedquestionmatchesthe
|                                         |     |     |                        |     |     | whether          | a knowledge                     |     | supports | a sentence |     | can be |
| --------------------------------------- | --- | --- | ---------------------- | --- | --- | ---------------- | ------------------------------- | --- | -------- | ---------- | --- | ------ |
| backgroundstory.                        |     |     | Eachquestionisassigned |     |     |                  |                                 |     |          |            |     |        |
|                                         |     |     |                        |     |     | subjective.      | Therefore,weconducthumanevalua- |     |          |            |     |        |
| score1ifitmatchesthebackgroundstory,and |     |     |                        |     |     | tiononalignment. |                                 |     |          |            |     |        |
score0ifthereiscontradiction.
WepresenttheHumanEvaluationInstructions
|              |     |       |               |     |           | provided | to the | annotators | in  | Table | 8. We | follow |
| ------------ | --- | ----- | ------------- | --- | --------- | -------- | ------ | ---------- | --- | ----- | ----- | ------ |
| • Relevance. |     | After | understanding |     | the back- |          |        |            |     |       |       |        |
theimplementationfrom(Clarketal.,2021),and
groundstories,weasktheannotatorstolabel
eachpieceofknowledgefromtheminimum providedetailedinstructionsandexamplestoim-
|           |     |      |         |              |        | proveevaluationaccuracy. |     |     | Forthishumanevalu- |     |     |     |
| --------- | --- | ---- | ------- | ------------ | ------ | ------------------------ | --- | --- | ------------------ | --- | --- | --- |
| knowledge |     | set. | A piece | of knowledge | is la- |                          |     |     |                    |     |     |     |
ation,therearefourindividualannotatorsintotal.
beled1iftheannotatorthinksitisnecessary
to answer the question, and 0 if it is redun- Wearrangedifferentannotatorsfordifferentbase-
|       |                                   |     |     |     |     | lines, and | each | baseline | has | two annotators. |     | The |
| ----- | --------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------- | ---- | -------- | --- | --------------- | --- | --- |
| dant. | Therelevancescoreofaquestionisthe |     |     |     |     |            |      |          |     |                 |     |     |
Inter-AnnotatorAgreementforChatGPT,LLaMA-
ratioofnumberofnecessaryknowledgetothe
numberofknowledgeintheminimumset. 7B,andVicuna-13Barereportedasfollows: 90%,
97%,and89%respectively.
| • Naturalness. |     | We  | ask | the annotators | to give |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------------- | --- | --- | --- | -------------- | ------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
anintegerscore1to5tolabeleachquestion.
D Prompts
5meansthequestioncanbeeasilyunderstand-
| able,andisconcise. |     |     | 1meansthequestionis |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------------------ | --- | --- | ------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Wepresentthepromptsandinstructionsweused
notwritteninnaturalEnglishlanguageoris
|     |     |     |     |     |     | in this section. |     | We present |     | the prompts |     | for the |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---------------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ------- |
extremelytedious.
evolutionaryquestionconstructioninTable9,10,
• Significance. We ask the annotators to give 11,and12. Wepresentthepromptfortheanswer
anintegerscore1to5tolabeleachquestion. generationinTable13. Wepresentthepromptswe
usefortextevaluationwithG-EvalinTable14,15,
5https://huggingface.co/google/t5_xxl_
| true_nli_mixture |     |     |     |     |     | 16,and17. |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ---------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Annotation Method:
Each evaluation content includes a
sentence and a piece of knowledge.
Our task is to determine whether this
sentence contains the given knowledge,
i.e., whether this knowledge provides
support for the sentence. If the
sentence does not mention the given
knowledge or if the content of the
sentence does not align with the
knowledge, it is considered
unsupported. We use 1 to indicate
support and 0 to indicate lack of
support.
Here are some examples:
Sentence: Stephen Crane was an
American writer born on November 1,
1871, in Newark, and died on June 5,
1900, in Badenweiler.
Knowledge: date of birth:
1871-11-01
Result: 1, because the sentence’s
date of birth matches the knowledge’s
date of birth.
Sentence: Merton died on December 10,
1968, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Knowledge: country of citizenship:
United States of America
Result: 0, because the sentence does
not mention Merton’s nationality.
Table8:Instructionweprovidetothehumanannotators.
E EvolutionaryQuestionGeneration
We provide an example of evolutionary question
generationinTable18.
F Examples
Weshowexamplesoftheattributedanswersgener-
atedbytheLLMsinTable19and20.

Instruction: Your objective is to select relevant knowledge to
label the sentence and generate a question
sentence: Artemisia Gentileschi was born Artemisia Gentileschi
Lomi in Rome on July 8 1593 although her birth certificate from the
Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the eldest child
of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi and Prudenzia di Ottaviano
Montoni.
knowledge: {qid: Q367360, name: Orazio Gentileschi, sex or
gender: male, place of birth: Pisa, place of death: London,
instance of: human, occupation: painter, child: Artemisia
Gentileschi, described by source: The Great Theatre of Dutch
Painters, notable works: Diana the Huntress, given name: Orazio,
topic’s main category: Category:Orazio Gentileschi, surname:
Gentileschi, genre: portrait, languages spoken: Italian,
movement: mannerism, work location: Rome, ethnic group:
Italians, date of birth: 1563-07-19, date of death: 1639-02-07}
{qid: Q212657, name: Artemisia Gentileschi, sex or gender:
female, place of birth: Rome, place of death: Naples, instance
of: human, occupation: painter, member of: Accademia delle Arti
del Disegno, father: Orazio Gentileschi, described by source: The
Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, notable works: Judith Slaying
Holofernes, topic’s main category: Category:Artemisia Gentileschi,
movement: Caravaggisti, ethnic group: Italians, work location:
Florence, depicted by: Artemisia, field of work: painting,
surname: Gentileschi, genre: portrait, languages spoken:
Italian, position held: court painter, student of: Orazio
Gentileschi, spouse: Pierantonio Stiattesi, given name:
Artemisia, mother: Prudenzia di Ottaviano Montoni, date of birth:
1596-07-08, date of death: 1654-01-01}
Generated Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi [qid: Q212657, name:
Artemisia Gentileschi] was born Artemisia Gentileschi Lomi in Rome
[qid: Q212657, place of birth: Rome] on July 8 1593 [qid:
Q212657, date of birth: 1596-07-08] although her birth certificate
from the Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the
eldest child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi [qid:
Q212657, father: Orazio Gentileschi] [qid: Q367360, name: Orazio
Gentileschi, occupation: painter] and Prudenzia di Ottaviano
Montoni.
Table9: Instructionanddemonstrationforinitialroundofevolutionaryquestionconstruction. Weusebrowncolor
fortheknowledge,andbluecolorforthedemonstrationofexpectedoutput.

Instruction: Your objective is to extend the original paragraph by
| adding  | one       | sentence |             | that | includes |       | the | given    | knowledge |           |
| ------- | --------- | -------- | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----- | --- | -------- | --------- | --------- |
| answer: | Artemisia |          | Gentileschi |      |          | [qid: |     | Q212657, | name:     | Artemisia |
Gentileschi] was born Artemisia Gentileschi Lomi in Rome [qid:
Q212657, place of birth: Rome] on July 8 1593 [qid: Q212657, date
of birth: 1596-07-08] although her birth certificate from the
Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the eldest child
of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi [qid: Q212657, father:
| Orazio      | Gentileschi] |          |     | [qid: | Q367360,  |     | name: | Orazio    | Gentileschi, |     |
| ----------- | ------------ | -------- | --- | ----- | --------- | --- | ----- | --------- | ------------ | --- |
| occupation: |              | painter] |     | and   | Prudenzia |     | di    | Ottaviano | Montoni.     |     |
knowledge: {qid: Q212657, name: Artemisia Gentileschi, notable
| works:    | Judith | Slaying |           | Holofernes} |     |             |     |       |          |       |
| --------- | ------ | ------- | --------- | ----------- | --- | ----------- | --- | ----- | -------- | ----- |
| Generated |        | Answer: | Artemisia |             |     | Gentileschi |     | [qid: | Q212657, | name: |
Artemisia Gentileschi] was born Artemisia Gentileschi Lomi in Rome
| [qid: | Q212657, |     | place | of  | birth: |     | Rome] | on July | 8 1593 | [qid: |
| ----- | -------- | --- | ----- | --- | ------ | --- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ----- |
Q212657, date of birth: 1596-07-08] although her birth certificate
from the Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the
| eldest | child | of  | the | Tuscan | painter |     | Orazio | Gentileschi |     | [qid: |
| ------ | ----- | --- | --- | ------ | ------- | --- | ------ | ----------- | --- | ----- |
Q212657, father: Orazio Gentileschi] [qid: Q367360, name: Orazio
| Gentileschi, |     | occupation: |     |     | painter] |     | and | Prudenzia | di  | Ottaviano |
| ------------ | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | --- | --------- | --- | --------- |
Montoni. Under the influence of her father, Artemisia Gentileschi
| created | her | iconic | painting |     |     | Judith | Slaying | Holofernes |     | [qid: |
| ------- | --- | ------ | -------- | --- | --- | ------ | ------- | ---------- | --- | ----- |
Q212657, notable works: Judith Slaying Holofernes] when she was
| around | twenty | years |     | old. |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ------ | ----- | --- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Table10: Instructionanddemonstrationforevolutionaryquestionconstructionforround2to5. Weusebrown
colorfortheknowledge,andbluecolorforthedemonstrationofexpectedoutput.

Instruction: Your objective is to ask a question whose answer is
| the given |     | paragraph. |     | There | should |     | be only |     | one question |     | when |
| --------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ----- | ------ | --- | ------- | --- | ------------ | --- | ---- |
possible, if not, make sure the question is as concise as possible.
Paragraph: Artemisia Gentileschi was born Artemisia Gentileschi
Lomi in Rome on July 8 1593 although her birth certificate from the
Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the eldest child
of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi and Prudenzia di Ottaviano
| Montoni.   |     | Her life | and     | work | were |       | later | depicted |           | in the | film |
| ---------- | --- | -------- | ------- | ---- | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | --------- | ------ | ---- |
| Ärtemisia, |     | which    | brought |      | her  | story | to a  | wider    | audience. |        | Her  |
¨
| father, | Orazio, |     | was a | prominent |     | figure |     | in the | Mannerism |     | art |
| ------- | ------- | --- | ----- | --------- | --- | ------ | --- | ------ | --------- | --- | --- |
movement, which likely influenced Artemisia’s own artistic style.
However, Artemisia herself was a part of the Caravaggisti movement,
a group of artists who followed the style of Caravaggio. She was
also a student of her father, Orazio Gentileschi, which further
shaped her artistic development. Orazio’s influence on Artemisia’s
development as a prominent Baroque painter can be seen in her
highly naturalistic portrayal of figures, dramatic scenes and the
| use of     | chiaroscuro |           | technique |          |     |           |     |             |     |     |      |
| ---------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | -------- | --- | --------- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | ---- |
| Generated  |             | Question: |           | Who      | was | Artemisia |     | Gentileschi |     | and | what |
| influences |             | shaped    | her       | artistic |     | style?    |     |             |     |     |      |
Table11: Instructionanddemonstrationforgeneralquestiongeneration. Weusebluecolorforthedemonstrationof
expectedoutput.
Instruction: Your objective is to ask a question whose answer is
| the given |     | paragraph. |     | The | question |     | should | not | be  | too | tedious. |
| --------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | -------- | --- | ------ | --- | --- | --- | -------- |
Paragraph: Artemisia Gentileschi was born Artemisia Gentileschi
Lomi in Rome on July 8 1593 although her birth certificate from the
Archivio di Stato indicated she was born in 1590 the eldest child
of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi and Prudenzia di Ottaviano
| Montoni.   |     | Her life | and     | work | were |       | later | depicted |           | in the | film |
| ---------- | --- | -------- | ------- | ---- | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | --------- | ------ | ---- |
| Ärtemisia, |     | which    | brought |      | her  | story | to a  | wider    | audience. |        | Her  |
¨
| father, | Orazio, |     | was a | prominent |     | figure |     | in the | Mannerism |     | art |
| ------- | ------- | --- | ----- | --------- | --- | ------ | --- | ------ | --------- | --- | --- |
movement, which likely influenced Artemisia’s own artistic style.
However, Artemisia herself was a part of the Caravaggisti movement,
a group of artists who followed the style of Caravaggio. She was
also a student of her father, Orazio Gentileschi, which further
shaped her artistic development. Orazio’s influence on Artemisia’s
development as a prominent Baroque painter can be seen in her
highly naturalistic portrayal of figures, dramatic scenes and the
| use of | chiaroscuro |     | technique |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| ------ | ----------- | --- | --------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Generated Question: What were the key artistic influences and
characteristics that shaped Artemisia Gentileschi’s unique Baroque
| style,       | and | how did | her | relationship |     |     | with         | her | father, |     | Orazio |
| ------------ | --- | ------- | --- | ------------ | --- | --- | ------------ | --- | ------- | --- | ------ |
| Gentileschi, |     | impact  | her | artistic     |     |     | development? |     |         |     |        |
Table12: Instructionanddemonstrationforspecificquestiongeneration. Weusebluecolorforthedemonstrationof
expectedoutput.

Instruction: You answer the question based on your knowledge, with
the given information for annotation, following the given format.
Use [NA] for claims that need annotation but is unprovided.
Question: Considering the information:
{name: Orazio Gentileschi, place of death: London, child:
Artemisia Gentileschi, notable works: Diana the Huntress, given
name: Orazio, surname: Gentileschi, languages spoken: Italian,
movement: mannerism, work location: Rome, ethnic group:
Italians, date of birth: 1563-07-19, date of death: 1639-02-07,
qid: Q367360}
{name: Artemisia Gentileschi, place of birth: Rome, place of
death: Naples, occupation: painter, member of: Accademia delle
Arti del Disegno, father: Orazio Gentileschi, notable works:
Judith Slaying Holofernes, movement: Caravaggisti, ethnic group:
Italians, work location: Florence, depicted by: Artemisia,
surname: Gentileschi, languages spoken: Italian, student of:
Orazio Gentileschi, given name: Artemisia, mother: Prudenzia di
Ottaviano Montoni, date of death: 1654-01-01, qid: Q212657}
How did Orazio Gentileschi’s influence on Artemisia’s life and
career shape her development as a prominent Baroque painter,
despite facing significant challenges as a female artist in a
male-dominated field?
Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter born on July
8, 1596 [NA] in Rome [Q212657, ethnic group: Italians, occupation:
painter, place of birth: Rome]. She was a member of the Accademia
delle Arti del Disegno and is best known for her work Judith
Slaying Holofernes [Q212657, member of: Accademia delle Arti del
Disegno, notable works: Judith Slaying Holofernes]. She was the
eldest child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi [Q212657,
father: Orazio Gentileschi]. Orazio Gentileschi was an Italian
painter [NA] born in 1563 and died in 1639 [Q367360, ethnic group:
Italians, date of birth: 1563-07-19, date of death: 1639-02-07].
He was born in Pisa and died in London [Q367360, place of death:
London]. Orazio’s influence on Artemisia’s development as a
prominent Baroque [NA] painter can be seen in her highly
naturalistic portrayal of figures, dramatic scenes and the use of
chiaroscuro technique [NA]. He also provided her with the
opportunity to study with him and learn from his experience and
expertise. She became an important second-generation proponent of
Caravaggio’s dramatic realism [Q212657, movement: Caravaggisti].
Table 13: Full instruction and demonstration for answer generation with citaion. We use brown color for the
knowledgepool,andbluecolorfortheexpectedoutcomeprovidedbythedemonstration.

Instruction: You will be given one question and answer. Your task
is to rate the answer on one metric. Please make sure you read and
understand these instructions carefully. Please keep this document
| open while |     | reviewing, |     | and | refer | to  | it  | as  | needed. |     |
| ---------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- |
| Evaluation |     | Criteria:  |     |     |       |     |     |     |         |     |
Coherence (1-5) - the collective quality of all sentences. We
align this dimension with the DUC quality question of structure and
| coherence |     | whereby |     | the answer |     | should | be  | well-structured |     | and |
| --------- | --- | ------- | --- | ---------- | --- | ------ | --- | --------------- | --- | --- |
well-organized. The answer should not just be a heap of related
| information, |      | but    | should         | build |     | from  | sentence |        | to sentence | to a |
| ------------ | ---- | ------ | -------------- | ----- | --- | ----- | -------- | ------ | ----------- | ---- |
| coherent     | body |        | of information |       |     | about | a        | topic. |             |      |
| Evaluation   |      | Steps: |                |       |     |       |          |        |             |      |
1. Read the questions carefully and identify the main topic and
key points.
2. Read the answer and compare it to the question. Check if the
answer covers the main topic and key points of the question, and if
| it presents |     | them | in  | a clear | and | logical |     | order. |     |     |
| ----------- | --- | ---- | --- | ------- | --- | ------- | --- | ------ | --- | --- |
3. Assign a score for coherence on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is
the lowest and 5 is the highest based on the Evaluation Criteria.
|     |     | Table14: |     | InstructionfortextevaluationwithGPT-EVAL-Coherence |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | -------- | --- | -------------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Instruction: You will be given one question and answer. Your task
is to rate the answer on one metric. Please make sure you read and
understand these instructions carefully. Please keep this document
| open while |     | reviewing, |     | and | refer | to  | it  | as  | needed. |     |
| ---------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | ------- | --- |
| Evaluation |     | Criteria:  |     |     |       |     |     |     |         |     |
Consistency (1-5) - the answer should be consistent with the given
knowledge. The answer should also be self-consistent, without any
| contradiction |     |          | to itself. |     |           |     |            |     |     |     |
| ------------- | --- | -------- | ---------- | --- | --------- | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evaluation    |     | Steps:   |            |     |           |     |            |     |     |     |
| 1. Read       | the | question |            | and | knowledge |     | carefully. |     |     |     |
2. Read the answer and compare it to the knowledge. Check if the
| answer | is  | consistent |     | with | the | give | knowledge. |     |     |     |
| ------ | --- | ---------- | --- | ---- | --- | ---- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- |
3. Assign a score for consistency on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is
the lowest and 5 is the highest based on the Evaluation Criteria.
|     |     | Table15: |     | InstructionfortextevaluationwithGPT-EVAL-Consistency |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | -------- | --- | ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

Instruction: You will be given one question and answer. Your task
is to rate the answer on one metric. Please make sure you read and
understand these instructions carefully. Please keep this document
| open while |     | reviewing, | and refer | to it | as needed. |
| ---------- | --- | ---------- | --------- | ----- | ---------- |
| Evaluation |     | Criteria:  |           |       |            |
Fluency (1-5) - the answer should be written in fluent language.
The answer should use appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and sentence
structures that enable readers or listeners to comprehend the
| content    | effortlessly. |          |            |     |     |
| ---------- | ------------- | -------- | ---------- | --- | --- |
| Evaluation |               | Steps:   |            |     |     |
| 1. Read    | the           | question | carefully. |     |     |
2. Read the answer and check if the language in the answer is
fluent.
3. Assign a score for fluency on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is the
lowest and 5 is the highest based on the Evaluation Criteria.
|     |     | Table16: | InstructionfortextevaluationwithGPT-EVAL-Fluency |     |     |
| --- | --- | -------- | ------------------------------------------------ | --- | --- |
Instruction: You will be given one question and answer. Your task
is to rate the answer on one metric. Please make sure you read and
understand these instructions carefully. Please keep this document
| open while |     | reviewing, | and refer | to it | as needed. |
| ---------- | --- | ---------- | --------- | ----- | ---------- |
| Evaluation |     | Criteria:  |           |       |            |
Relevance (1-5) - the answer should be relevant to the question.
The answer should directly answers the question, without providing
| any irrelevant |     | information. |            |     |     |
| -------------- | --- | ------------ | ---------- | --- | --- |
| Evaluation     |     | Steps:       |            |     |     |
| 1. Read        | the | question     | carefully. |     |     |
2. Read the answer and compare with the question to check if it
| fully | answers | the question | and | have no | redundancies. |
| ----- | ------- | ------------ | --- | ------- | ------------- |
3. Assign a score for relevance on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is
the lowest and 5 is the highest based on the Evaluation Criteria.
|     |     | Table17: InstructionfortextevaluationwithGPT-EVAL-Relevance |     |     |     |
| --- | --- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --- | --- |

Round 1:
Annotated Knowledge:
[qid: Q258115, name: Diego Simeone, occupation: association football player]
[qid: Q6439494, name: Giovanni Simeone, father: Diego Simeone]
[qid: Q6439494, name: Giovanni Simeone, place of birth: Madrid]
[qid: Q258115, name: Diego Simeone, member of sports team: Atletico Madrid]
Paragraph: The son of former Argentine international footballer Diego Simeone
and Carolina Baldini Giovanni Simeone was born in Madrid while his father was
playing for Atletico Madrid.
Round 2:
Input Knowledge: [qid: Q258115, name: Diego Simeone, position played on team:
midfielder]
Paragraph: The son of former Argentine international footballer Diego Simeone
and Carolina Baldini Giovanni Simeone was born in Madrid while his father was
playing as a midfielder for Atletico Madrid.
Round 3:
Input Knowledge: [qid: Q258115, Diego Simeone, member of sports team: S.S.
Lazio]
Paragraph: The son of former Argentine international footballer Diego Simeone
and Carolina Baldini Giovanni Simeone was born in Madrid while his father was
playing as a midfielder for Atletico Madrid. Before his stint at Atletico Madrid,
Diego Simeone had also played for S.S. Lazio.
Round 4:
Input Knowledge: [qid: Q258115, Diego Simeone, medical condition: COVID-19]
Paragraph: The son of former Argentine international footballer Diego Simeone
and Carolina Baldini Giovanni Simeone was born in Madrid while his father was
playing as a midfielder for Atletico Madrid. Before his stint at Atletico Madrid,
Diego Simeone had also played for S.S. Lazio. Later in life,
Diego Simeone contracted the COVID-19 virus, but managed to recover.
Round 5:
Input Knowledge: [qid: Q6439494, Giovanni Simeone, position played on team:
forward]
Paragraph: The son of former Argentine international footballer Diego Simeone
and Carolina Baldini Giovanni Simeone was born in Madrid while his father was
playing as a midfielder for Atletico Madrid. Before his stint at Atletico Madrid,
Diego Simeone had also played for S.S. Lazio. Later in life, Diego Simeone
contracted the COVID-19 virus, but managed to recover. Following in his father’s
footsteps but with a different role on the pitch,
Giovanni Simeone grew up to be a forward in the game of football.
General Question:
How did the career of Diego Simeone influence his son’s path in football?
Specific Question:
Who are Diego Simeone and Giovanni Simeone, and how are there career path in
football different from each other?
Table18: Anexampleofthegeneratedquestionsaftereachroundinevolutionaryquestionconstruction. Weuse
browncolorfortheknowledge,andbluecolorforthegeneratedquestions. Ineachroundweunderlinethetextsto
thenewlyinjectedknowledge.

Question:
What were some of Stephen Crane’s notable works that reflected his
views on religion and the harsh realities of life, and how did his
experiences at Syracuse University influence his writing? Also,
what was the name of the sports team he was a member of at Syracuse
University?
| Retrieved | Knowledge: |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
[qid: Q206534, name: Stephen Crane, sex or gender: male, place
| of birth:    |     | Newark, | place  | of death: | Badenweiler, |       | country   | of  |
| ------------ | --- | ------- | ------ | --------- | ------------ | ----- | --------- | --- |
| citizenship: |     | United  | States | of        | America,     | cause | of death: |     |
Tuberculosis, place of burial: Evergreen Cemetery, alma mater:
Syracuse University, instance of: human, given name: Stephen,
medical condition: Tuberculosis, occupation: writer, described by
source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969âC“1978), manner of death:
natural causes, movement: literary realism, notable works: The
Red Badge of Courage, surname: Crane’, "topic’s main category":
’Category:Stephen Crane, religion: atheism, languages spoken:
English, mother: Mary Helen Peck Crane, sport: baseball, member
| of sports | team: |     | Syracuse | Orange | baseball, | father: | Jonathan |     |
| --------- | ----- | --- | -------- | ------ | --------- | ------- | -------- | --- |
Townley Crane, name: Stephen Crane, date of birth: 1871-11-01,
| date      | of death: |     | 1900-06-05] |        |      |             |          |     |
| --------- | --------- | --- | ----------- | ------ | ---- | ----------- | -------- | --- |
| Generated | Output:   |     |             |        |      |             |          |     |
| Stephen   | Crane     | was | a male      | writer | born | on November | 1, 1871, | in  |
Newark, United States of America, and died on June 5, 1900, in
Badenweiler due to tuberculosis [Q206534, sex or gender: male,
place of birth: Newark, place of death: Badenweiler, country of
| citizenship: |     | United | States | of  | America, | cause | of death: |     |
| ------------ | --- | ------ | ------ | --- | -------- | ----- | --------- | --- |
Tuberculosis, medical condition: Tuberculosis, date of birth:
1871-11-01, date of death: 1900-06-05]. Crane was a prominent
literary realist writer [Q206534, movement: literary realism] who
wrote about the harsh realities of life and his atheistic views on
religion [Q206534, religion: atheism]. His notable works include
"The Red Badge of Courage" [Q206534, notable works: The Red Badge
of Courage].
Crane attended Syracuse University and was a member of the Syracuse
Orange baseball team [Q206534, alma mater: Syracuse University,
| sport: | baseball, |     | member | of sports | team: | Syracuse | Orange |     |
| ------ | --------- | --- | ------ | --------- | ----- | -------- | ------ | --- |
baseball]. His experiences at Syracuse University influenced his
writing, and he wrote several stories about college life, including
"The Eighty-Yard Run," which was based on his own experiences as a
| football | player |     | at Syracuse | [NA]. |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ------ | --- | ----------- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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Question:
What were some of Stephen Crane’s notable works that reflected his
views on religion and the harsh realities of life, and how did his
experiences at Syracuse University influence his writing? Also,
what was the name of the sports team he was a member of at Syracuse
University?
| Retrieved | Knowledge: |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
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[qid: Q206534, name: Stephen Crane, sex or gender: male, place
| of birth:    |     | Newark, | place |        | of death: | Badenweiler, |       |     | country   | of  |
| ------------ | --- | ------- | ----- | ------ | --------- | ------------ | ----- | --- | --------- | --- |
| citizenship: |     | United  |       | States | of        | America,     | cause |     | of death: |     |
Tuberculosis, place of burial: Evergreen Cemetery, alma mater:
Syracuse University, instance of: human, given name: Stephen,
medical condition: Tuberculosis, occupation: writer, described by
source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969âC“1978), manner of death:
natural causes, movement: literary realism, notable works: The
Red Badge of Courage, surname: Crane’, "topic’s main category":
’Category:Stephen Crane, religion: atheism, languages spoken:
English, mother: Mary Helen Peck Crane, sport: baseball, member
| of sports | team: |     | Syracuse |     | Orange | baseball, |     | father: | Jonathan |     |
| --------- | ----- | --- | -------- | --- | ------ | --------- | --- | ------- | -------- | --- |
Townley Crane, name: Stephen Crane, date of birth: 1871-11-01,
| date      | of death: |     | 1900-06-05] |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | --------- | --- | ----------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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Stephen Crane was an American writer born on November 1, 1871, in
Newark, and died on June 5, 1900, in Badenweiler [Q206534, date of
birth: 1871-11-01, date of death: 1900-06-05, place of birth:
| Newark, | place | of  | death: |     | Badenweiler]. |     | He  | was | a part | of the |
| ------- | ----- | --- | ------ | --- | ------------- | --- | --- | --- | ------ | ------ |
literary realism movement and is best known for his notable work,
The Red Badge of Courage [Q206534, movement: literary realism,
| notable | works: |     | The Red | Badge |     | of Courage]. |     | Crane’s | views | on  |
| ------- | ------ | --- | ------- | ----- | --- | ------------ | --- | ------- | ----- | --- |
religion were atheistic [Q206534, religion: atheism]. His works
often reflected the harsh realities of life, such as war, poverty,
| and human | suffering |     | [NA]. |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| --------- | --------- | --- | ----- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Crane attended Syracuse University [Q206534, alma mater: Syracuse
University], where his experiences likely influenced his writing.
He was exposed to a diverse range of ideas and perspectives, which
may have contributed to his realistic approach to literature [NA].
While at Syracuse University, Stephen Crane was a member of the
Syracuse Orange baseball team [Q206534, member of sports team:
| Syracuse | Orange |     | baseball]. |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
| -------- | ------ | --- | ---------- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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