Challenge: Existing work on complex knowledge base question answering addresses two types of complexity at the same time.
Approach: They propose a modified staged query graph generation method that handles both types of complexity at the same time.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on three benchmark KBQA datasets.

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