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>>mdszy+(OP)
last time I looked at OpenCyc's knowledge base, the information encoded was all strangely specific academic stuff - like very fine classifications and relationships between species of tapeworms and of fungus. There was very little daily-life common-sense knowledge, even though that's often the hook in interviews and articles about Cyc's purpose. I'm not sure why that's true - maybe it's hard to decide what the 'facts' are about normal human life, but the more academic something is, the more there's a consensus, rationalized 'reality'

>>jes519+yy
This happens also with similar bases in my experience. I suspect it's very much an economic phenomenon. It's easy to hire someone to input relations from a textbook if not from Wikipedia. It's hard to find someone with credentials for "understanding everyday life on philosophical level", and for logical formalisms, and also no overriding penchant for philosophical bikeshedding. Even then, it would be a time-consuming and thus also costly process.