Why Gold Answers Are Becoming Less Important in GraphRAG Systems

Traditional RAG evaluation relies on human-annotated "standard answers," but in the GraphRAG era, this approach is losing its relevance. What Is a Gold Answer? A Gold Answer is a human-annotated "standard correct answer." In traditional NLP and RAG system evaluation, the process typically goes like this: Prepare a batch of test questions Have humans write the "correct answer" for each question Let the system answer the same questions Compare system answers against Gold Answers, calculating F1, B