A Diagnostic Benchmark for Sweden-Related Factual Knowledge

Jenny Kunz · Oct 24, 2025 · Citations: 0

Abstract

Many Swedish benchmarks are translations of US-centric benchmarks and are therefore not suitable for testing knowledge that is particularly relevant, or even specific, to Sweden. We therefore introduce a manually written question-answering benchmark specifically targeted at Sweden-related personalities and events, many of which receive very limited coverage in international media. Our annotators drew inspiration from a popular radio program featuring public figures from culture and media, as well as major sports events in Sweden. The dataset can be used to measure factual recall across models of varying sizes and degrees of Swedish coverage, and allows probing of cross-lingual factual consistency, as it contains English translations. Using the dataset, we find that smaller models with stronger Swedish coverage perform comparably to a multilingual model three times larger in recalling Sweden-related facts. We also observe that continued pre-training on Swedish generally improves factual knowledge but leads to partial forgetting of previously known information. These results demonstrate the dataset's potential as a diagnostic tool for studying language adaptation and knowledge retention in multilingual models during language adaptation.

HFEPX Relevance Assessment

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Eval-Fit Score

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evaluation Signal

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Human Data Lens

Uses human feedback: No
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Expertise required: Multilingual
Extraction source: Persisted extraction

Evaluation Lens

Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval: None
Quality controls: Not reported
Confidence: 0.35
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Reported Metrics

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Research Brief

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Key Takeaways

Many Swedish benchmarks are translations of US-centric benchmarks and are therefore not suitable for testing knowledge that is particularly relevant, or even specific, to Sweden.
We therefore introduce a manually written question-answering benchmark specifically targeted at Sweden-related personalities and events, many of which receive very limited coverage…

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Research Summary

Contribution Summary

Many Swedish benchmarks are translations of US-centric benchmarks and are therefore not suitable for testing knowledge that is particularly relevant, or even specific, to Sweden.
We therefore introduce a manually written question-answering benchmark specifically targeted at Sweden-related personalities and events, many of which receive very limited coverage in international media.
Our annotators drew inspiration from a popular radio program featuring public figures from culture and media, as well as major sports events in Sweden.

Why It Matters For Eval

Many Swedish benchmarks are translations of US-centric benchmarks and are therefore not suitable for testing knowledge that is particularly relevant, or even specific, to Sweden.
We therefore introduce a manually written question-answering benchmark specifically targeted at Sweden-related personalities and events, many of which receive very limited coverage in international media.

Researcher Checklist

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Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

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Pass: Metric reporting is present

Detected: recall

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