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ProofWriter

Introduced by Oyvind Tafjord et al. in ProofWriter: Generating Implications, Proofs, and Abductive Statements over Natural Language24 Dec 2020 archive 2025-07-28

The ProofWriter dataset contains many small rulebases of facts and rules, expressed in English. Each rulebase also has a set of questions (English statements) which can either be proven true or false using proofs of various depths, or the answer is “Unknown” (in open-world setting, OWA) or assumed negative (in closed-world setting, CWA).

The dataset includes full proofs with intermediate conclusions, which models can try to reproduce.

The dataset supports various tasks:

  • Given rulebase + question, what is answer + proof (w/intermediates)?
  • Given rulebase, what are all the provable implications?
  • Given rulebase + question without proof, what single fact can be added to make the question true?

Source: Allen AI

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