# Natural Questions

Natural Questions is an AI benchmark; this page records what it measures and traces its data, grader, and scores to primary sources.

Evaluates question answering on real Google queries paired with annotated evidence and answers from Wikipedia pages.

## Details

- Address: Online, Global
- Website: [ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions](<https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions>)
- Tags: Helpful, Science
- Category: Retrieval
- Status: Active
- Data licence: CC-BY-SA-3.0
- Data access: open
- Grader: exact
- Organization: Google Research
- Released: 2019-01
- Leaderboard: [ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions](<https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions>)
- Top-score provenance: unknown
- ABI family: No

## Questions

### Where is Natural Questions?

Natural Questions is at Online, Global.

### How do I contact Natural Questions?

To contact Natural Questions, visit https://ai.google.com/research/NaturalQuestions.

## Source

From [Benchmark primary sources](https://aibenchmarkindex.com/about), license CC0-1.0, checked 2026-10-15.

Last updated October 15, 2026.

## Links

- This benchmark on the [web page](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/natural-questions>)
- [Retrieval in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/category/retrieval.md>)
- [More benchmarks in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online.md>)

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