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by Fricken 3542 days ago
Google has their knowledge graph, a semantic search engine for the most commonly asked questions.

The wikipedia page for Knowledge graph cites Thomas Jefferson as an example, so I asked 'what years was Thomas Jefferson in office?', and Google deferred to the first paragraph of TJ's wiki.

Then I asked 'What year was Thomas Jefferson born?', and it gave me a direct answer.

So it sorta works, but it's not super awesome.