---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
task_categories:
  - question-answering
tags:
  - clinical
  - clinical-guidelines
  - citation
  - synthetic
size_categories:
  - n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: questions.jsonl
---

# Synthetic clinical question set for verbatim-citation evaluation

222 synthetic clinical questions, each written from one section of a published
cardiometabolic practice guideline.

Questions carry the **identifier** of their source section, not its text. The
guidelines are copyrighted and cannot be redistributed, so you need your own copy of
them. The harness rebuilds the section tree from them, and the labels resolve against
that tree.

Paper: [arXiv:2609.15964](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15964)
Code and harness: [github.com/oberst-lab/verifiable-by-construction](https://github.com/oberst-lab/verifiable-by-construction)

## Fields

| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| `question_id` | unique, shaped `<guideline_id>_<node_id>_<style>_qNN` |
| `question` | the question text |
| `question_style` | `lookup` (asks for a recommendation directly), `scenario` (describes one patient and asks what applies to them), or `sdm` (asks how to discuss the options with a patient). 74 each |
| `guideline_id` | `blood-pressure-2025` (42), `cvd-prevention-2019` (75), `diabetes-care-2026` (75), `dyslipidemia-2026` (30) |
| `guideline_name` | the guideline's full title |
| `source` | the gold label: which section the question came from |

Inside `source`:

| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
| `node_id` | the gold section. Unique only together with `guideline_id`, since section ids repeat across guidelines |
| `chapter_id`, `subtopic_id` | the same section at chapter and at subtopic granularity |
| `path` | node ids from the document root down to the section |
| `title_path` | the corresponding section headings |
| `level`, `section_type` | position in the section tree |
| `char_count` | length of the section text |

74 sections in total, three questions on each. Generated with `gpt-4o-mini`, one
section at a time.

## License

CC BY 4.0 covers the questions and labels here. The guidelines themselves belong to
the bodies that issued them.

## Citation

Jiashuo Zhang, Yuling Chen, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Michael Oberst. Verifiable by
Construction: Claim-Level Evaluation of Verbatim Citation in Clinical Question
Answering. arXiv:2609.15964, 2026.