WikiKGQA 2026
Wiki-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Challenge 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 5 challenge submissions and their corresponding papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 5 papers were accepted for this volume as regular papers.
• WikiKGQA 2026: The First Wiki-Based Knowledge Graph Question Answering Challenge
  David Maria Schmidt, Shakeeb Arzoo, Debayan Banerjee, Alberto Moya Loustaunau, Ricardo Usbeck, Philipp Cimiano, Aidan Hogan

Papers

• Answer-Convention Alignment for Agentic Text-to-SPARQL: AMA-KBQA at the WikiKGQA 2026 Challenge
  Yannic Duan, Maximilian Klattig, Maurice Bardenhagen, Yuyang Li, Tobias Käfer
• TF-IDF Example Retrieval and Execution-Guided Selection for Few-Shot Text-to-SPARQL over Wikidata with Open-Weight LLMs
  Emeric Cyrille Kenmegne Fokam, Gilbert Ebenezer Tela Tela
• A Prompt-Based Approach to WikiKGQA 2026: SPARQL Generation with Large Language Models
  Melisa Marian, Alexandra Nanu, Alexia Dan, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi
• Can Skill-Driven LLM Agents Solve Text2SPARQL through Autonomous Exploration and Iterative Refinement?
  Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Niharika Shimona DSouza, Satyananda Kashyap, Oshani Seneviratne, Horst Samulowitz
• GRASP and GRISP for Question Answering over Wikidata
  Sebastian Walter, Hannah Bast