reasoning benchmark
PopQA Leaderboard
PopQA is an entity-centric open-domain question-answering dataset of 14,000 QA pairs covering 16 relationship types from Wikidata, with a focus on entities of varying popularity levels.
Updated Sep 5, 2026
Models3
Model coverage3
MetricScore
EvidenceB
PopQA Ranking
Higher score ranks better on this benchmark.
Sort by
Rank | Model | Score | Percentile | Participants | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| Rank01 | ModelIB | Score26.17% | Percentile100.00% | Participants3 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| Rank02 | ModelIB | Score26.17% | Percentile50.00% | Participants3 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| Rank03 | ModelIB | Score22.90% | Percentile0.00% | Participants3 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
PopQA Highlights
The leading models and scores on this benchmark.
PopQA Score Distribution
A closer view of the leading scores on this benchmark.
The Top AI Models for PopQA
The first five results on this benchmark, with official price and output speed added where the model identity can be matched.
What is PopQA?
What PopQA measures and how its scores work.
PopQA is a dataset created by converting Wikidata knowledge triples into natural-language questions using templates, including questions about long-tail entities.
It measures language models' ability to memorize and recall factual knowledge across entities and evaluates parametric and non-parametric memory effectiveness.
Scores are shown in ratio. This benchmark is not independently verified and has an evidence level of B.
- Family
- PopQA
- Modality
- text
- Primary category
- reasoning
- Score direction
- higher
- LLMBoard eligible
- No
- Evaluation key
- overall
LLM Stats. Benchmark scores retain their original unit. Overall score eligibility is shown separately.
FAQ
Common questions about PopQA.
Which model scores highest on PopQA?
Granite 3.3 8B Base is currently ranked first with 26.17%.
What are the top three models on PopQA?
The current leaders are Granite 3.3 8B Base (26.17%), Granite 3.3 8B Instruct (26.17%), and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview (22.90%).
Which PopQA model has the lowest official input price?
No matched official input price is currently available.
Which models are fastest among PopQA results?
No matched runtime record is currently available.
Does the highest score result prove overall model quality?
No. This benchmark measures one defined capability or task. The overall LLMBoard score uses a separate aggregation across eligible benchmark evidence.