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MS MARCO — Question Answering & Passage Ranking

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Microsoft's MS MARCO dataset: 1M+ real Bing questions with human-generated answers and passage relevance judgments. Foundational benchmark for retrieval, RAG, and QA systems.

Schema

NameTypeDescription
answersVARCHAR[]Human-written natural-language answer(s) to the query.
passagesSTRUCT(is_selected INTEGER[], passage_text VARCHAR[], url VARCHAR[])List of ~10 candidate passages with text, source URL, and binary relevance label (1=selected, 0=not selected).
queryVARCHARNatural-language question from anonymized Bing user logs.
query_idINTEGERUnique integer identifier for the question.
query_typeVARCHARQuestion category: DESCRIPTION, NUMERIC, ENTITY, LOCATION, or PERSON.
wellFormedAnswersVARCHAR[]Rewritten well-formed answers (present on subset of rows).

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