We introduce a new benchmark for Danish culture via cultural heritage, Daisy, based on the curated topics from the Danish Culture Canon 2006. For each artifact in the culture canon, we query the corresponding Wikipedia page and have a language model generate random questions. This yields a sampling strategy within each work, with a mix of central of peripheral questions for each work, not only knowledge of mainstream information, but also in-depth cornerstones defining the heritage of Danish Culture, defined by the Canon committee. Each question-answer pair is humanly approved or corrected in the final dataset consisting of 741 close-ended question answer pairs covering topics, from 1300 BC. archaeological findings, 1700 century poems and musicals pieces to contemporary pop music and Danish design and architecture.
@article{arxiv.2601.19930,
title = {SDUs DAISY: A Benchmark for Danish Culture},
author = {Jacob Nielsen and Stine L. Beltoft and Peter Schneider-Kamp and Lukas Galke Poech},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.19930},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Danish Culture Benchmark, 2 Tables, 1 Figure demonstrating the data curation pipeline