... (Collins and Singer, 1999), extrac-tion of binary relations (Agichtein and Gravano,2000), and acquisition of structured data for taskssuch as Question Answering (Lita and Carbonell,2004; Fleischman ... the candidate fact(more is better); and the number of seed facts ex-tracted by the same patterns (again, more is bet-ter) (Agichtein and Gravano, 2000; Thelen and Riloff, 2002; Lita and Carbonell, ... first pass and adjusted for therelative distance to the start and end of the infix.3.3 Ranking of Candidate FactsFigure 3 introduces a new scheme for assessing thequality of the candidate facts,...