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Simple relational knowledge

The simplest way of storing facts is to use a relational method where each fact about a set of objects is set out systematically in columns. This representation gives little opportunity for inference, but it can be used as the knowledge basis for inference engines.

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Figure: Simple Relational Knowledge

We can ask things like:

This sort of representation is popular in database systems.



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