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our entities and relationships, what remains is
to put these to use for the purpose of making a new hypothesis or
discovery of some kind—deriving a potential fact that does not literally
appear in the published text given as input but is derived as a result of
taking everything digested into account. Because of the complexity and
heterogeneity involved in understanding the physical world as it actu-
ally exists, this is usually a daunting problem. Some simplications and
approximations are typically desirable. ere are limitless possibilities
for how to make use of these approximate models of reality so t ...