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I'm not an expert on this by any means but I don't think so. The original paper suggests bounds on the number of "lies" and the original context (described in the abstract) is a question/answer game. It is likely posed within a very constrained framework.

Fundamentally there is no way to extract knowledge about objective reality from a corpus of contradictory text of unknown quality. The contradictions can yield clues if you are willing to make assumptions. But even statements backed by unanimous agreement can be 100% false.




Fair, thanks for that.




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