Supplementary Materials for MEQA: A Benchmark for Multi-hop Event-centric Question Answering with Explanations

We utilize an open and widely used data format, i.e., JSON format, for the MEQA dataset. A sample within the dataset, accompanied by the data format explanation, is shown in Listing 1. " context ": " Roadside IED kills Russian major general [...] ", # The context of the question " question ": " Who died before AI - monitor reported it online?", " What event contains Al - Monitor is the communicator? " What event is after #1 has a victim? " Who died in the #2? major general, local commander, lieutenant general " The dataset and source code for the MEQA dataset have been released to GitHub: https:// github.com/du-nlp-lab/MEQA.