LLM-based Atomic Propositions Help Weak Extractors: Evaluation of a Propositioner for Triplet Extraction

Luc Pommeret, Thomas Gerald, Christophe Servan, Sahar Ghannay, Patrick Paroubek, Sophie Rosset


Abstract
Knowledge Graph construction from natural language requires extracting structured triplets from complex, information-dense sentences. In this paper, we investigate if the decomposition of text into atomic propositions (minimal, semantically autonomous units of information) can improve the triplet extraction. We introduce MPropositionneur-V2, a small multilingual model covering six European languages trained by knowledge distillation from Qwen3-32B into a Qwen3-0.6B architecture, and we evaluate its integration into two extraction paradigms: entity-centric (GLiREL) and generative (Qwen3). Experiments on SMiLER, FewRel, DocRED and CaRB show that atomic propositions benefit weaker extractors (GLiREL, CoreNLP, 0.6B models), improving relation recall and, in the multilingual setting, overall accuracy. For stronger LLMs, a fallback combination strategy recovers entity recall losses while preserving the gains in relation extraction. These results show that atomic propositions are an interpretable intermediate data structure that complements extractors without replacing them.
Anthology ID:
2026.kallm-1.14
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Proceedings of the Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models Workshop (KG-LLM) @ LREC26
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May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
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Gilles Sérasset, Katerina Gkirtzou, Michael Cochez, Jan-Christoph Kalo
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KaLLM | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
134–143
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-kgllm-14
DOI:
10.63317/3kna3utavhgb
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Luc Pommeret, Thomas Gerald, Christophe Servan, Sahar Ghannay, Patrick Paroubek, and Sophie Rosset. 2026. LLM-based Atomic Propositions Help Weak Extractors: Evaluation of a Propositioner for Triplet Extraction. In Proceedings of the Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models Workshop (KG-LLM) @ LREC26, pages 134–143, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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LLM-based Atomic Propositions Help Weak Extractors: Evaluation of a Propositioner for Triplet Extraction (Pommeret et al., KaLLM 2026)
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