You are the Guesser in a Twenty Questions benchmark. Identify the hidden subject using as few counted turns as possible. BEGIN provides only its broad category. The variation_token has no clues; do not interpret, mention, or repeat it. The category in BEGIN has a broad meaning: - person: a real human, living or historical. - fictional_character: an invented character from a story, book, comic, film, television, game, or another fictional work. - mythological_figure: a figure from mythology or traditional legend. - video_game_character: a character known from video games. - thing: a broad category covering natural and human-made entities, living or nonliving, whole entities or parts of them. Possibilities include everyday objects, tools, machines, materials, food, animals, plants, body parts, natural structures, geographical features, celestial bodies, natural phenomena, and concepts. These possibilities are not exhaustive. The target may be a general kind or one particular instance. Use questions to narrow the supplied category. These definitions are not a list of targets. Use ASK for a factual question that distinguishes candidates. Never use ASK to confirm a specific identity. Use GUESS with a name and short identifying description to name a candidate. ASK has five possible replies: - YES or NO: the evidence establishes that answer to the exact question. - RATHER_YES or RATHER_NO: evidence leans that way, but is not strong enough for a firm answer. Treat this as a clue; keep candidates fitting the opposite answer possible. - UNKNOWN: no reliable direction. It supports neither answer. Ask clear questions about verifiable properties. "Can", "sometimes", "usually", "always", and "mainly" ask different things. Do not assume that one property proves another or rules out alternatives. Qualified replies express uncertainty about your question, not how often a property applies. Before narrowing heavily, check your key assumption with a different property. After rejected guesses, reconsider earlier assumptions as well as candidates. Answers can be mistaken; check another property when stuck. Do not ignore an answer merely because it conflicts with a preferred candidate. Each ASK, rejected GUESS, or format error before the limit costs one turn. A correct GUESS costs none. After 40 counted turns, make one final GUESS; ASK is then forbidden. Identity validation uses only YES, NO, or UNKNOWN. UNKNOWN on GUESS ends the game without success. FORMAT_ERROR means your output broke the contract, was not checked for correctness, and cost one turn. Retry using its displayed formats if a turn remains. Return only the required JSON object with exactly one result action. No explanations, reasoning, or extra fields.
- Questions
- 13
- Outcome
- Solved
- Format errors
- No errors
- Duration
- 2m 32s
- Round cost
- $0.0642 All 14 turns
Transcript
Questions and answers.
Turns are shown in the order they happened. Each shows the Guesser's question or guess, then the final checked answer.
Exact Guesser setupSystem message and BEGIN event
The Guesser received these messages at the start of the round. The BEGIN message holds the broad category and a code made from the base seed and round number, which reveals nothing about the subject.
{"category":"person","event":"BEGIN","variation_token":"AMZAISLM"}Valid replies are shown in the required format. Rejected replies are shown separately, without provider or call IDs.
2 of 13 answers in this round reuse an earlier, fully checked answer with its original evidence. No new search or check ran for those turns.
Q1
1 · Guesser asks
Is the person currently alive?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Is the person currently alive?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Xixia.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
On August 18, 1227, while putting down a revolt in the kingdom of Xi Xia, Genghis Khan died.
Open history.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns No
Q2
1 · Guesser asks
Did the person die on or after January 1, 1900?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die on or after January 1, 1900?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Xixia.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)On August 18, 1227, while putting down a revolt in the kingdom of Xi Xia, Genghis Khan died.Open history.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns No
Q3
1 · Guesser asks
Did the person die on or after January 1, 1800?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die on or after January 1, 1800?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Britannica states that Genghis Khan was born around 1162 and died on August 18, 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Xixia.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
History.com reports that Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, while putting down a revolt in the kingdom of Xi Xia.
Open history.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns No
Q4
1 · Guesser asks
Did the person die on or after January 1, 1500?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die on or after January 1, 1500?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Xixia.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
On August 18, 1227, while putting down a revolt in the kingdom of Xi Xia, Genghis Khan died.Open history.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns No
Q5
1 · Guesser asks
Was the person born in Europe?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person born in Europe?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan (born 1162, near Lake Baikal, Mongolia—died August 18, 1227) was a Mongolian warrior-ruler.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Genghis Khan was born in about 1162 in northern Mongolia. His name at first was Temüjin.Open kids.britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
The place that he was born is also unknown. It was on the Onon River, but it could have been in what is now Mongolia or Russia.Open simple.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns No
Q6
1 · Guesser asks
Was the person born in Asia?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person born in Asia?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan (born 1162, near Lake Baikal, Mongolia—died August 18, 1227) was a Mongolian warrior-ruler.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Temüjin ... was born in the village of Delyun Boldog on the Odon River in the northeastern borderlands between Mongolia and China ... between 1155 and 1162.Open ebsco.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q7
1 · Guesser asks
Did the person die in or after the year 1 AD?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die in or after the year 1 AD?"}}Oracle evidence1 model-reported source
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan (born 1162, near Lake Baikal, Mongolia—died August 18, 1227) was a Mongolian warrior-ruler.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q8
1 · Guesser asks
Was the person born in East Asia?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person born in East Asia?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan (born 1162, near Lake Baikal, Mongolia—died August 18, 1227) was a Mongolian warrior-ruler.Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Mongolia is a landlocked country located in East and Central Asia bordered by Russia and China.Open globaledge.msu.edu (opens in a new tab)
2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q9
1 · Guesser asks
Was the person born in what is today China?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person born in what is today China?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Britannica states that Genghis Khan was born in 1162 “near Lake Baikal, Mongolia.”
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
The page identifies Deluun Boldog by the Onon River in Dadal soum, Khentii aimag, as the birthplace of Temüjin (Genghis Khan), and describes Eastern Mongolia’s Khentii Province as his birthplace region.
Open mongoliashorttours.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
EBSCO places his birth at Delyun Boldog on the Odon River in the northeastern borderlands between Mongolia and China.
Open ebsco.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns No
Q10
1 · Guesser asks
Was the person born in what is today Mongolia?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was the person born in what is today Mongolia?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Britannica states that Genghis Khan was “born 1162, near Lake Baikal, Mongolia.”Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)
Source summary (model-reported)
Britannica Kids states that Genghis Khan was born in about 1162 in northern Mongolia and that his original name was Temüjin.
Open kids.britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
The source identifies Deluun Boldog in Dadal soum of Khentii province as the traditionally believed birthplace, while noting that historians and scientists still debate the exact location.
Open escapetomongolia.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q11
1 · Guesser asks
Did the person die in the 13th century AD (1201–1300)?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Did the person die in the 13th century AD (1201–1300)?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Genghis Khan died on August 18, 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Xixia.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
On August 18, 1227, while putting down a revolt in the kingdom of Xi Xia, Genghis Khan died.
Open history.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q12
1 · Guesser asks
Was this person a Khagan (Great Khan) of the Mongol Empire?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was this person a Khagan (Great Khan) of the Mongol Empire?"}}Oracle evidence2 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Source summary (model-reported)
Regnal titles ... Khan of the Mongol Empire ... 1206–1227 ... Khagan of the Mongol Empire ... Early Khagans ... Genghis Khan ... Genghis Khan ... was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Source summary (model-reported)
Genghis Khan ... iku Khan Mongolia lan kanthi anumreta diwèhi gelar Khagan ... saka kakaisaran Mongol.
Open jv.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
Q13
1 · Guesser asks
Was this person the founder of the Mongol Empire?
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"ASK","description":null,"name":null,"question":"Was this person the founder of the Mongol Empire?"}}Oracle evidence3 model-reported sources
The Oracle reported these excerpts and URLs. They are not independently checked.
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin ...), also known as Chinggis Khan ... was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.Open en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)
Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227) rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history.Open history.com (opens in a new tab)
Source summary (model-reported)
Genghis Khan was a Mongolian warrior-ruler who consolidated tribes into a unified Mongolia and then extended his empire across Asia.
Open britannica.com (opens in a new tab) 2 · Answer check returns Yes
G
1 · Guesser guessesNot counted
Genghis Khan
Founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
Validator rationale The proposed identity names Genghis Khan directly and matches the described historical person as founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
Recorded Guesser outputRequired JSON format
{"result":{"action":"GUESS","description":"Founder and first Great Khan of the Mongol Empire","name":"Genghis Khan","question":null}} 2 · Validator returns Yes