NarrativeBench - MNI recall (%): leaderboard

NarrativeBench v1,4800cases perconfiguration,1333articles,460queries,23publication/24query languages. Three articles perselected narrative. Document-ID citations measure instruction-following coverage: NI target-only F1,NE target-exclusion F1,MNI omitted-narrative recall,BP/DP all-narrative recall. Wrong-language responses zero;low-confidence language detection passes. Source parentheses are SE,not scores. ExactAPI/checkpoint,budget andthinking settings retained;9BBase distinct. Five native0–100 metrics,not agreement or signed bias/gap diagnostics.

Metric: MNI recall (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1gemini-3.8-flash (NarrativeBench Run: low;output=3000)82.8
2gemini-2.5-pro (NarrativeBench Run: thinking-budget=128;output=3000)79.4
3gemini-2.5-flash (NarrativeBench Run: thinking-budget=0;output=3000)74.3
4gpt-oss-120b (NarrativeBench Run: low;output=3000)73.7
5kimi-k2.6 (NarrativeBench Run: disabled;output=3000)73
6gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (NarrativeBench Run: disabled;output=3000)70
7DeepSeek-V4-Flash (NarrativeBench Run: disabled;output=3000)64.8
8gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 (NarrativeBench Run: reasoning=none;output=3000)62.3
9Qwen3.5-9B (NarrativeBench Run: disabled;output=3000)58.9
10gpt-oss-20b (NarrativeBench Run: medium;output=16384)52.5

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=narrativebench-mni-recall · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.