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Also known as KB, knowledge bases

information repository with multiple applications

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Encyclopedic overview

In computer science, a knowledge base (KB) is a set of sentences, each sentence given in a knowledge representation language, with interfaces to tell new sentences and to ask questions about what is known, where either of these interfaces might use inference. It is a technology used to store complex structured data used by a computer system. The initial use of the term was in connection with expert systems, which were the first knowledge-based systems.

Original usage of the term

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “knowledge base” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.