PhantomBench - Terms (Meaning): leaderboard
Metric: Hallucination rate (%): share of answers that do not abstain on the Phantom-T subset (1,060 generated non-existent terms modeled on medical abbreviations, science glossaries and legal terms), verified absent from the 2.3-trillion-token Dolma corpus, when the prompt asks what the concept means or refers to (presupposing it exists); a Gemini 2.5 Flash judge labels abstention; reasoning-model rates count only generations that reached a final answer; lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 16 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3 14B | 8.02 |
| 2 | Qwen 3 4B | 8.87 |
| 3 | Qwen 3 8B | 9.06 |
| 4 | Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct | 10.94 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 32B | 13.68 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 1.7B | 22.76 |
| 7 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 26.42 |
| 8 | Gemma 2 9B (IT) | 27.64 |
| 9 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 33.21 |
| 10 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 35 |
| 11 | GPT-OSS-20B (Medium) | 41.01 |
| 12 | Mistral 7B Instruct (v0.3) | 54.62 |
| 13 | GPT-OSS-20B (Low) | 54.77 |
| 14 | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | 66.96 |
| 15 | Gemma 3 12B (IT) | 87.26 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=phantombench-terms-meaning · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-29.