BRINK-family

BRINK (Benchmark for Reasoning under Incomplete Knowledge) is a benchmark for evaluating Knowledge Graph–based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (KG-RAG) under incomplete knowledge. Unlike standard KGQA benchmarks, BRINK is designed so that each question cannot be answered by directly retrieving a single explicit supporting triple. Instead, the answer must be inferred from alternative reasoning paths that remain in the graph after the directly supporting fact is removed.

BRINK-family is the Family split of BRINK, built on a clean and interpretable relational graph for controlled evaluation of reasoning under incomplete knowledge.

🌐 Website: https://github.com/boschresearch/brink

📄 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08344

Construction

BRINK is constructed by mining high-confidence logical rules from the original knowledge graph and using rule groundings to generate question-answer pairs. For each instance, the directly supporting triple is removed while preserving sufficient alternative evidence for inference.

Intended Use

This dataset is intended for evaluating KGQA and KG-RAG systems on reasoning under incomplete knowledge, especially in settings where direct fact retrieval is insufficient.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@inproceedings{zhou2026breaks,
  title={What Breaks Knowledge Graph based RAG? Benchmarking and Empirical Insights into Reasoning under Incomplete Knowledge},
  author={Zhou, Dongzhuoran and Zhu, Yuqicheng and Wang, Xiaxia and Zhou, Hongkuan and He, Yuan and Chen, Jiaoyan and Staab, Steffen and Kharlamov, Evgeny},
  booktitle={The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL},
  year={2026}
}