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TextRunner Search

TextRunner searches hundreds of millions of assertions extracted from 500 million high-quality Web pages.

To learn more about TextRunner, see

NOTE: You may have trouble running Textrunner if you are behind a firewall, because it utilizes port 7125. If not seeing the results, try accessing Textrunner from a machine outside your firewall.

Example queries:
  "What has the FDA banned?"   "What contains antioxidants?"
  "Argument 1 = Thomas Edison?"   "Predicate = invented"
  "What kills bacteria?"   "Who built the pyramids?"

See Also:
Topic-Model Based Selectional Preferences
TextRunner Analogies

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