Challenge: Existing methods for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) face hallucination problems, resulting in low accuracy.
Approach: They propose a retrieval-generate-retrieve framework that uses a Retrieve-Generate framework to retrieve factual knowledge from a knowledge graph.
Outcome: Experimental results show that RGR-KBQA improves on CWQ and WebQSP datasets.

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