Disclosed is a method and system for automatically generating question and query pair from a knowledge base that involves accessing a knowledge base to extract one or more entities and one or more predicates, generating a baseline question template from a context free grammar rule, inputting the one or more entities and the one or more predicates into the baseline question template to generate a numbered question template, generating a typed question template by traversing the numbered question template through a predicate type-graph, generating a SPARQL query by inputting the one or more entities and the one or more predicates into a SPARQL query template, generating a question by inputting the one or more entities and the one or more predicates into the typed question template, and constructing a question and query pair by combining the question and the SPARQL query.