Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Author directory2026
GPTKB 2.0: Browsing, Querying, and Auditing a Disambiguated LLM-Derived Knowledge Base
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
We present a web demo for exploring a large-scale disambiguated knowledge base materialized from a large language model (LLM). GPTKB 2.0 contains 38.4M triples over 1.6M canonical entities, together with 207.6K consolidated relations and 66K consolidated classes. Unlike prior LLM-derived knowledge bases that largely identify entities by surface strings, GPTKB 2.0 performs context-guided disambiguation during recursive KB construction, separating homonyms and merging synonymous mentions as facts are elicited. The demo makes this process inspectable: users can browse entities, follow links across the KB, and audit the provenance of individual facts, including surface forms, candidate matches, source triples, and disambiguation decisions. The interface further supports structured SPARQL queries, natural-language questions translated to SPARQL, and entity linking from user-provided text to canonical GPTKB 2.0 entries.
REAP: Relation-Aware Elicitation and Parsing for Closed-Book Knowledge Base Construction from LLMs
Thanh-Dan Bui | Thanh-Trung Do | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Thanh-Dan Bui | Thanh-Trung Do | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
We present the REAP system for the AKBC Shared Task 2026 on constructing knowledge bases from language models in a closed-book setting, subject to a budget of at most 32B parameters and no model fine-tuning. Our system combines structured chain-of-thought reasoning, relation-specific query strategies, and a reasoning-based empty-set gate to elicit parametric knowledge, followed by direct extraction into valid JSON arrays. On the test set, the system, built on the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 model, achieves a macro-F1 score of 0.62, with particularly strong results on countryLandBordersCountry (F1 = 0.95), companyTradesAtStockExchange (F1 = 0.73), and hasArea (F1 = 0.77). Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/yammdd/AKBC-Shared-Task-2026.
Summary of the AKBC 2026 Shared Task: Language Models for Knowledge Base Construction (LM-KBC, 5th Edition)
Jan-Christoph Kalo | Simon Razniewski | Bohui Zhang | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Jan-Christoph Kalo | Simon Razniewski | Bohui Zhang | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Pretrained language models (LMs) have significantly advanced a variety of knowledge engineering tasks and have shown promise as sources of factual knowledge. While prior work has studied factual knowledge through probing and prompting, reliably constructing complete knowledge bases from the parametric knowledge of LMs remains challenging. The AKBC 2026 Shared Task invited participants to construct knowledge bases directly from LMs, given specific subjects and relations. Unlike existing probing benchmarks, the challenge imposed no simplifying assumptions on relation cardinality, allowing a subject entity to be associated with zero, one, or multiple objects, including long answer sets. To ensure accessibility, the challenge featured a single track using open-weight LMs with a total neural parameter budget of up to 32B. Nineteen submissions were received, of which twelve were ranked, exploring a variety of approaches including relation-specific prompting, evidence aggregation, and model selection.
Auditing a KB Elicitation of Frontier LLM Knowledge: A Multi-dimensional Analysis of GPTKB v1.5
Shrestha Ghosh | Luca Giordano | Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Shrestha Ghosh | Luca Giordano | Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
LLMs are remarkable artifacts that have revolutionized a range of knowledge-intensive tasks. A significant contributor is their factual knowledge, which, to date, remains poorly understood, and is usually analyzed from biased samples. In this paper, we provide a framework and the results of a multi-dimensional analysis of GPTKB v1.5 (CITATION), a recursively elicited Knowledge Base (KB) of 100 million facts (or beliefs) of a frontier LLM, namely, GPT-4.1. Given the scale of the elicited facts, we provide a multi-dimensional approach to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze these facts as opposed to the mainstream fact completion benchmarks, which are prone to availability bias. We find that the models’ factual knowledge differs quite significantly from established knowledge bases, and that its accuracy is significantly lower than indicated by previous benchmarks. We also find that inconsistency, ambiguity and hallucinations are major issues, shedding light on future research opportunities in neuro-symbolic AI concerning extraction, consolidation and verification of factual LLM knowledge.
Epistemic Twins: Enabling a Symbolic Science of Language Model Knowledge
Simon Razniewski | Shrestha Ghosh | Luca Giordano | Yujia Hu | Josua Kowalzik | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Simon Razniewski | Shrestha Ghosh | Luca Giordano | Yujia Hu | Josua Kowalzik | Tuan-Phong Nguyen
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2026)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are impactful yet opaque artifacts. Subsymbolic by design, they are defined by billions of numeric weights that interact in a largely inscrutable manner. Current analysis paradigms are either black-box benchmarks that test model performance on pre-defined tasks, or mechanistic interpretability approaches that trace back outputs to specific weights. Both analysis methods are limited by the experimenter’s hypothesis space - one must know what to look for to find it. In this article, we argue for a third, radically different analysis paradigm: Epistemic Twins. We propose constructing large-scale symbolic approximations of LLMs in human-readable formats. This enables the comprehensive inspection of factual knowledge (or beliefs) inherent in the model without predefining hypotheses, facilitating large-scale auditing towards better understanding and explainability.
Constructing Disambiguated Knowledge Bases from Large Language Models at Scale
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) is a core NLP task, and recent work proposes generating knowledge bases directly from large language models (LLMs), treating the model itself as the knowledge source. However, LLMs natively possess no representation of entities, leading to duplicate entries as well as conflations.
We propose DisamKB, a methodology for constructing disambiguated KBs directly from LLMs. DisamKB incorporates on-the-fly disambiguation of entities, relations and classes, and is meticulously designed to satisfy both scalability and disambiguation accuracy. We analyze the central design decisions and characterize the trade-offs between accuracy, scale, and cost. We execute DisamKB at scale, obtaining a materialized KB containing over 1M disambiguated entities and 38.4M triples. This represents the first million-scale LLM-native KB with explicit internal canonicalization of entities, relations, and classes, a significant departure from prior Wikimedia-centric works. DisamKB is anonymously available at https://gptkb.org/.
We propose DisamKB, a methodology for constructing disambiguated KBs directly from LLMs. DisamKB incorporates on-the-fly disambiguation of entities, relations and classes, and is meticulously designed to satisfy both scalability and disambiguation accuracy. We analyze the central design decisions and characterize the trade-offs between accuracy, scale, and cost. We execute DisamKB at scale, obtaining a materialized KB containing over 1M disambiguated entities and 38.4M triples. This represents the first million-scale LLM-native KB with explicit internal canonicalization of entities, relations, and classes, a significant departure from prior Wikimedia-centric works. DisamKB is anonymously available at https://gptkb.org/.
2025
Enabling LLM Knowledge Analysis via Extensive Materialization
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Shrestha Ghosh | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yujia Hu | Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Shrestha Ghosh | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) have majorly advanced NLP and AI, and next to their ability to perform a wide range of procedural tasks, a major success factor is their internalized factual knowledge. Since (Petroni et al., 2019), analyzing this knowledge has gained attention. However, most approaches investigate one question at a time via modest-sized pre-defined samples, introducing an “availability bias” (Tverski and Kahnemann, 1973) that prevents the analysis of knowledge (or beliefs) of LLMs beyond the experimenter’s predisposition.To address this challenge, we propose a novel methodology to comprehensively materialize an LLM’s factual knowledge through recursive querying and result consolidation. Our approach is a milestone for LLM research, for the first time providing constructive insights into the scope and structure of LLM knowledge (or beliefs).As a prototype, we extract a knowledge base (KB) comprising 101 million relational triples for over 2.9 million entities from GPT-4o-mini. We use GPTKB to exemplarily analyze GPT-4o-mini’s factual knowledge in terms of scale, accuracy, bias, cutoff and consistency, at the same time. Our resource is accessible at https://gptkb.org.
2022
Materialized Knowledge Bases from Commonsense Transformers
Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Representation and Reasoning (CSRR 2022)
Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Representation and Reasoning (CSRR 2022)
Starting from the COMET methodology by Bosselut et al. (2019), generating commonsense knowledge directly from pre-trained language models has recently received significant attention. Surprisingly, up to now no materialized resource of commonsense knowledge generated this way is publicly available. This paper fills this gap, and uses the materialized resources to perform a detailed analysis of the potential of this approach in terms of precision and recall. Furthermore, we identify common problem cases, and outline use cases enabled by materialized resources. We posit that the availability of these resources is important for the advancement of the field, as it enables an off-the-shelf-use of the resulting knowledge, as well as further analyses on its strengths and weaknesses.
2021
Inside ASCENT: Exploring a Deep Commonsense Knowledge Base and its Usage in Question Answering
Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski | Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Tuan-Phong Nguyen | Simon Razniewski | Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
ASCENT is a fully automated methodology for extracting and consolidating commonsense assertions from web contents (Nguyen et al., 2021). It advances traditional triple-based commonsense knowledge representation by capturing semantic facets like locations and purposes, and composite concepts, i.e., subgroups and related aspects of subjects. In this demo, we present a web portal that allows users to understand its construction process, explore its content, and observe its impact in the use case of question answering. The demo website (https://ascent.mpi-inf.mpg.de) and an introductory video (https://youtu.be/qMkJXqu_Yd4) are both available online.