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On the Limits of Machine Knowledge: Completeness, Recall and Negation in Web-scale Knowledge Bases

Summary: Examines limits of web-scale KBs under partial closed-world semantics: completeness, recall, and negation; outlines foundations and inference. Identifies recall in KBs and text; estimates it statistically; surfaces negatives; enables comparative recall. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12522
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
5.1725247e-05
Overall Rank
11,538 | 19.82%
DOI
10.14778/3476311.3476401

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5,471 Mining an "Anti-Knowledge Base" from Wikipedia Updates with Applications to Fact Checking and Beyond 2020 VLDB 6.2747651e-05
7,383 CYADB: A Database that Covers Your Ask 2018 VLDB 5.6897772e-05
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