| In August 2014, ''[[New Scientist]]'' reported that Google had launched '''Knowledge Vault'''.<ref>{{cite web |first=Hal |last=Hodson |title=Google’s fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832-700-googles-fact-checking-bots-build-vast-knowledge-bank/ |website=[[New Scientist]] |date=August 20, 2014 |accessdate=December 10, 2017}}</ref> After publication, Google reached out to ''[[Search Engine Land]]'' to explain that Knowledge Vault was a research paper, not an active Google service, and in its report, ''Search Engine Land'' referenced indications by the company that "numerous models" were being experimented with to examine the possibility of automatically gathering meaning from text.<ref>{{cite web |first=Greg |last=Sterling |title=Google "Knowledge Vault" To Power Future Of Search |url=https://searchengineland.com/google-builds-next-gen-knowledge-graph-future-201640 |website=[[Search Engine Land]] |date=August 25, 2014 |accessdate=December 10, 2017}}</ref> The Knowledge Vault was meant to deal with facts, automatically gathering and merging information from across the Internet into a knowledge base capable of answering direct questions, such as "Where was [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] born". It was reported that its main ability over the Knowledge Graph was to gather information automatically rather than relying on crowd sourced facts compiled by humans; by the time of the 2014 report, it had collected over 1.6 billion facts, 271 million of which were considered "confident facts", a term for information deemed more than 90% true. | | In August 2014, ''[[New Scientist]]'' reported that Google had launched '''Knowledge Vault'''.<ref>{{cite web |first=Hal |last=Hodson |title=Google’s fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832-700-googles-fact-checking-bots-build-vast-knowledge-bank/ |website=[[New Scientist]] |date=August 20, 2014 |accessdate=December 10, 2017}}</ref> After publication, Google reached out to ''[[Search Engine Land]]'' to explain that Knowledge Vault was a research paper, not an active Google service, and in its report, ''Search Engine Land'' referenced indications by the company that "numerous models" were being experimented with to examine the possibility of automatically gathering meaning from text.<ref>{{cite web |first=Greg |last=Sterling |title=Google "Knowledge Vault" To Power Future Of Search |url=https://searchengineland.com/google-builds-next-gen-knowledge-graph-future-201640 |website=[[Search Engine Land]] |date=August 25, 2014 |accessdate=December 10, 2017}}</ref> The Knowledge Vault was meant to deal with facts, automatically gathering and merging information from across the Internet into a knowledge base capable of answering direct questions, such as "Where was [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] born". It was reported that its main ability over the Knowledge Graph was to gather information automatically rather than relying on crowd sourced facts compiled by humans; by the time of the 2014 report, it had collected over 1.6 billion facts, 271 million of which were considered "confident facts", a term for information deemed more than 90% true. |