Are Large Language Models a Good Replacement of Taxonomies?
Summary: TaxoGlimpse: a benchmark of 10 representative taxonomies spanning common→specialized domains and root→leaf levels to evaluate LLMs on taxonomy discovery. Evaluation of 18 LLMs (3 prompting styles) reveals poor handling of specialized taxonomies and leaf nodes, with QA accuracy dropping up to 30%. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yushi Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 2. Hao Xin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Kai Sun (Meta)
- 4. Yifan Ethan Xu (Meta)
- 5. Xiao Yang (Meta)
- 6. Xin Luna Dong (Meta)
- 7. Nan Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 8. Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{sun_vldb24,
title = {{Are Large Language Models a Good Replacement of Taxonomies?}},
author = {Sun, Yushi and Xin, Hao and Sun, Kai and Xu, Yifan Ethan and Yang, Xiao and Dong, Xin Luna and Tang, Nan and Chen, Lei},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '24},
volume = {17},
number = {11},
pages = {2919--2932},
doi = {10.14778/3681954.3681973},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681973},
year = {2024}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 8,627 | ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries | 2025 | VLDB | 5.3969543e-05 |
| 10,190 | AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,956 | CoLA: Model Collaboration for Log-based Anomaly Detection | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,957 | Common Sense: the Dark Matter of Language and Intelligence (VLDB 2023 Keynote) | 2023 | VLDB | 6.0282118e-05 |
| 8,458 | RECA: Related Tables Enhanced Column Semantic Type Annotation Framework | 2023 | VLDB | 5.4217059e-05 |
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