Local Business FAQ Dataset

160 question and answer templates for local businesses: a general set of 40 that fits any business plus ten for each of twelve business types, from restaurants and dentists to plumbers and law firms. Answers are fill-in templates with named placeholders, and a schema.org FAQPage template is included.

dataset JSON, JSONL, JSON-LD CC BY 4.0

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Use Cases

  • RAG knowledge base seeding
  • Website FAQ pages
  • Chatbot answer templates
  • Local business schema markup
  • Staff phone scripts

Sample Records

[
    {
        "id": "general-001",
        "vertical": "general",
        "vertical_label": "All local businesses",
        "schema_type": "LocalBusiness",
        "category": "hours",
        "question": "What are your hours?",
        "answer_template": "We are open {weekday_hours} Monday through Friday, {saturday_hours} on Saturday, and {sunday_hours} on Sunday.",
        "placeholders": [
            "weekday_hours",
            "saturday_hours",
            "sunday_hours"
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "restaurant-001",
        "vertical": "restaurant",
        "vertical_label": "Restaurants",
        "schema_type": "Restaurant",
        "category": "booking",
        "question": "Do you take reservations?",
        "answer_template": "We take reservations {reservation_channels}. Parties of {large_party_size} or more should book at least {large_party_notice} ahead.",
        "placeholders": [
            "reservation_channels",
            "large_party_size",
            "large_party_notice"
        ]
    }
]