Frame-Guided Synthetic Claim Generation for Automatic Fact-Checking Using High-Volume Tabular Data

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Authors: Jacob Devasier, Akshith Reddy Putta, Qing Wang, Alankrit Moses, Chengkai Li
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Abstract

Automated fact-checking benchmarks have largely ignored the challenge of verifying claims against real-world, high-volume structured data, instead focusing on small, curated tables. We introduce a new large-scale, multilingual dataset to address this critical gap. It contains 78,503 synthetic claims grounded in 434 complex OECD tables, which average over 500K rows each. We propose a novel, frame-guided methodology where algorithms programmatically select significant data points based on six semantic frames to generate realistic claims in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Hindi. Crucially, we demonstrate through knowledge-probing experiments that LLMs have not memorized these facts, forcing systems to perform genuine retrieval and reasoning rather than relying on parameterized knowledge. We provide a baseline SQL-generation system and show that our benchmark is highly challenging. Our analysis identifies evidence retrieval as the primary bottleneck, with models struggling to find the correct data in massive tables. This dataset provides a critical new resource for advancing research on this unsolved, real-world problem.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Misinformation and Its Impacts Topic Modeling Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
23 January 2026
Document type
Preprint