Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Retrieval
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Sub-tasks:
multiple-choice-qa
Languages:
English
Size:
1K - 10K
ArXiv:
License:
metadata
annotations_creators:
- human-annotated
language:
- eng
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality: monolingual
source_datasets:
- mteb/nq
task_categories:
- text-retrieval
task_ids:
- multiple-choice-qa
dataset_info:
- config_name: corpus
features:
- name: _id
dtype: string
- name: text
dtype: string
- name: title
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 2760992
num_examples: 5035
download_size: 1773906
dataset_size: 2760992
- config_name: qrels
features:
- name: query-id
dtype: string
- name: corpus-id
dtype: string
- name: score
dtype: int64
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 1796
num_examples: 57
download_size: 2253
dataset_size: 1796
- config_name: queries
features:
- name: _id
dtype: string
- name: text
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 3132
num_examples: 50
download_size: 3453
dataset_size: 3132
configs:
- config_name: corpus
data_files:
- split: train
path: corpus/train-*
- config_name: qrels
data_files:
- split: train
path: qrels/train-*
- config_name: queries
data_files:
- split: train
path: queries/train-*
tags:
- mteb
- text
NanoNQ is a smaller subset of a dataset which contains questions from real users, and it requires QA systems to read and comprehend an entire Wikipedia article that may or may not contain the answer to the question.
| Task category | t2t |
| Domains | Academic, Web |
| Reference | https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions |
How to evaluate on this task
You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following code:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_tasks(["NanoNQRetrieval"])
evaluator = mteb.MTEB(task)
model = mteb.get_model(YOUR_MODEL)
evaluator.run(model)
To learn more about how to run models on mteb task check out the GitHub repitory.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset as well as mteb, as this dataset likely includes additional processing as a part of the MMTEB Contribution.
@article{47761,
author = {Tom Kwiatkowski and Jennimaria Palomaki and Olivia Redfield and Michael Collins and Ankur Parikh
and Chris Alberti and Danielle Epstein and Illia Polosukhin and Matthew Kelcey and Jacob Devlin and Kenton Lee
and Kristina N. Toutanova and Llion Jones and Ming-Wei Chang and Andrew Dai and Jakob Uszkoreit and Quoc Le
and Slav Petrov},
journal = {Transactions of the Association of Computational
Linguistics},
title = {Natural Questions: a Benchmark for Question Answering Research},
year = {2019},
}
@article{enevoldsen2025mmtebmassivemultilingualtext,
title={MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark},
author={Kenneth Enevoldsen and Isaac Chung and Imene Kerboua and Márton Kardos and Ashwin Mathur and David Stap and Jay Gala and Wissam Siblini and Dominik Krzemiński and Genta Indra Winata and Saba Sturua and Saiteja Utpala and Mathieu Ciancone and Marion Schaeffer and Gabriel Sequeira and Diganta Misra and Shreeya Dhakal and Jonathan Rystrøm and Roman Solomatin and Ömer Çağatan and Akash Kundu and Martin Bernstorff and Shitao Xiao and Akshita Sukhlecha and Bhavish Pahwa and Rafał Poświata and Kranthi Kiran GV and Shawon Ashraf and Daniel Auras and Björn Plüster and Jan Philipp Harries and Loïc Magne and Isabelle Mohr and Mariya Hendriksen and Dawei Zhu and Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef and Tom Aarsen and Jan Kostkan and Konrad Wojtasik and Taemin Lee and Marek Šuppa and Crystina Zhang and Roberta Rocca and Mohammed Hamdy and Andrianos Michail and John Yang and Manuel Faysse and Aleksei Vatolin and Nandan Thakur and Manan Dey and Dipam Vasani and Pranjal Chitale and Simone Tedeschi and Nguyen Tai and Artem Snegirev and Michael Günther and Mengzhou Xia and Weijia Shi and Xing Han Lù and Jordan Clive and Gayatri Krishnakumar and Anna Maksimova and Silvan Wehrli and Maria Tikhonova and Henil Panchal and Aleksandr Abramov and Malte Ostendorff and Zheng Liu and Simon Clematide and Lester James Miranda and Alena Fenogenova and Guangyu Song and Ruqiya Bin Safi and Wen-Ding Li and Alessia Borghini and Federico Cassano and Hongjin Su and Jimmy Lin and Howard Yen and Lasse Hansen and Sara Hooker and Chenghao Xiao and Vaibhav Adlakha and Orion Weller and Siva Reddy and Niklas Muennighoff},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13595},
year={2025},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13595},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2502.13595},
}
@article{muennighoff2022mteb,
author = {Muennighoff, Niklas and Tazi, Nouamane and Magne, Lo{\"\i}c and Reimers, Nils},
title = {MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark},
publisher = {arXiv},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07316},
year = {2022}
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07316},
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2210.07316},
}
Dataset Statistics
Dataset Statistics
The following code contains the descriptive statistics from the task. These can also be obtained using:
import mteb
task = mteb.get_task("NanoNQRetrieval")
desc_stats = task.metadata.descriptive_stats
{
"train": {
"num_samples": 5085,
"number_of_characters": 2648727,
"num_documents": 5035,
"min_document_length": 1,
"average_document_length": 525.5958291956306,
"max_document_length": 6138,
"unique_documents": 5035,
"num_queries": 50,
"min_query_length": 32,
"average_query_length": 47.04,
"max_query_length": 83,
"unique_queries": 50,
"none_queries": 0,
"num_relevant_docs": 57,
"min_relevant_docs_per_query": 1,
"average_relevant_docs_per_query": 1.14,
"max_relevant_docs_per_query": 2,
"unique_relevant_docs": 57,
"num_instructions": null,
"min_instruction_length": null,
"average_instruction_length": null,
"max_instruction_length": null,
"unique_instructions": null,
"num_top_ranked": null,
"min_top_ranked_per_query": null,
"average_top_ranked_per_query": null,
"max_top_ranked_per_query": null
}
}
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