Three-Valued Semantics for Hybrid MKNF Knowledge Bases Revisited (Extended Abstract)
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Abstract
Knorr et al. (2011) formulated a three-valued formalism for the logic of Minimal Knowledge and Negation as Failure (MKNF) and proposed a well-founded semantics for hybrid MKNF knowledge bases (KBs). The main results state that if a hybrid MKNF KB has a three-valued MKNF model, its well-founded MKNF model exists, which is unique and can be computed by an alternating fixpoint construction. In this paper, we show that these claims are erroneous. We propose a classification of hybrid MKNF KBs into a hierarchy and show that its innermost subclass is what works for the well-founded semantics of Knorr et al. Furthermore, we provide a uniform characterization of well-founded, two-valued, and all three-valued MKNF models, in terms of stable partitions and the alternating fixpoint construction, which leads to updated complexity results as well as proof-theoretic tools for reasoning under these semantics.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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