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When is the classifying space of a group/H-space rationally equivalent to a product of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces?

The MO-question asks why the classifying space of a group is not necessarily rationally a product of Eilenberg–MacLane spaces. I am looking for classes of examples of connected topological groups/...
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rationalization of classifying spaces

This question is probably trivial for anyone who is more familiar with rational homotopy theory than me, but anyway: Let $G$ be a simply-connected topological group. In particular, it is an $H$-...