On the other hand it kind of correctly fingers Kristin as "Who shot JR" (although it considers the JR of "Secretary of Balloon Doggies" fame to be the more relevant).
Video is correctly tagged as killing the radio star, I'm mostly impressed.
It also correctly identifies the shooters of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Mr Burns.
In unsolved mystery news, it told me that Jimmy Hoffa is buried under Giants Stadium (I thought Mythbusters busted that one...) and John Karr did not kill JonBenet Ramsey. In answer to "Who was Jack the Ripper?" I was simply told "the fictional world is Jack the Ripper", which seems a little too abstract to be useful.
The results for 'what causes promiscuity' are both amusing and slightly worrisome.
objectification of the self (2), Spring break parties (2) can lead to unintended promiscuity
vaccine (2) will cause promiscuity
sex education (2) causes promiscuity
You get 287 results, the top ten being: Queen, Hip Hop, Heath Ledger, Microsoft, Science, Democracy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Jazz, All Humans, and Elvis.
(Incidentally, after that I had a sudden urge to check google news to make sure the Queen wasn't dead. She isn't.)
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Retrieved 1 result for what stops entropy?
Grouping results by argument 1. Group by: predicate | argument 2
laws of physics - 1 result
laws of physics could n't stop entropy (2)
Since the assertions were extracted from Web pages it's reasonable to assume that the answer doesn't exist because no one talked about textrunner prior to it being made public. That, or the sample of Web pages didn't contain any pages that referred to textrunner. Another possibility is the structure of the sentence(s) containing a reference to textrunner were not sufficiently simplifiable.
