google-research-datasets/natural-questions resource
Natural Questions (NQ) contains real user questions issued to Google search, and answers found from Wikipedia by annotators. NQ is designed for the training and evaluation of automatic question answering systems. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2780
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1861
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1138 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Natural Questions is a large-scale question answering dataset from Google containing 307k real user search questions paired with Wikipedia pages annotated with long and short answers. The repository provides data utilities, a data browser, and evaluation tooling for training and benchmarking QA systems.
Use cases
- train a question answering model on real search queries
- evaluate extractive QA systems against a benchmark
- get question-answer pairs from Wikipedia pages
- benchmark long answer and short answer selection models
- compare my QA system on the Natural Questions leaderboard
When to choose
- you need a large, realistic QA benchmark based on real user queries
- you want to compare against published QA baselines and leaderboard results
- you need Wikipedia-sourced training data with human-annotated answers
When to avoid
- you need conversational or multi-turn QA data
- you need small lightweight datasets for quick prototyping
- you need non-English question answering data
Facets
dataset · maturity maintenance
machine-learning nlp data-science machine-learning python question-answering benchmark wikipedia google-search-queries dataset natural-language-processing search
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/google-research-datasets/natural-questions · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9ca80dc605ab
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/natural-questions/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 26b41aa48518
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| google-research-datasets/natural-questions | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="google-research-datasets/natural-questions")
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