Completeness (knowledge bases)

The term completeness as applied to knowledge bases refers to two different concepts.

In some cases, a consistent knowledge base can be made complete with the closed world assumption—that is, adding all not-entailed literals as negations to the knowledge base.

In the above example though, this would not work because it would make the knowledge base inconsistent:

For Query 2, no such conclusion could be made, as predicate T is potentially incomplete.

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