graphrag/docsite/posts/query/2-question_generation.md

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title: Question Generation ❔
navtitle: Question Generation
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date: 2024-03-28
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## Entity-based Question Generation

The [question generation](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main//graphrag/query/question_gen/) method combines structured data from the knowledge graph with unstructured data from the input documents to generate candidate questions related to specific entities.

## Methodology
Given a list of prior user questions, the question generation method uses the same context-building approach employed in [local search](1-local_search.md) to extract and prioritize relevant structured and unstructured data, including entities, relationships, covariates, community reports and raw text chunks. These data records are then fitted into a single LLM prompt to generate candidate follow-up questions that represent the most important or urgent information content or themes in the data.

## Configuration

Below are the key parameters of the [Question Generation class](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main//graphrag/query/question_gen/local_gen.py):
* `llm`: OpenAI model object to be used for response generation
* `context_builder`: [context builder](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main//graphrag/query/structured_search/local_search/mixed_context.py) object to be used for preparing context data from collections of knowledge model objects, using the same context builder class as in local search
* `system_prompt`: prompt template used to generate candidate questions. Default template can be found at [system_prompt](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main//graphrag/query/question_gen/system_prompt.py)
* `llm_params`: a dictionary of additional parameters (e.g., temperature, max_tokens) to be passed to the LLM call
* `context_builder_params`: a dictionary of additional parameters to be passed to the [`context_builder`](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag/blob/main//graphrag/query/structured_search/local_search/mixed_context.py) object when building context for the question generation prompt
* `callbacks`: optional callback functions, can be used to provide custom event handlers for LLM's completion streaming events

## How to Use

An example of the question generation function can be found in the following [notebook](../notebooks/local_search_nb).