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Knowledge Base

Reviewed 19 July 2026Canonical definitionPart of: Agent Evaluation Terms →

A knowledge base is a structured or unstructured collection of information that an AI agent can search and retrieve from to inform its responses. Answer quality is bounded by what the knowledge base holds, so stale or duplicated content surfaces as confident but wrong answers.

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What is Knowledge Base?

A knowledge base is a structured or unstructured collection of information that an AI agent can search and retrieve from to inform its responses.

How does Knowledge Base work?

Answer quality is bounded by what the knowledge base holds, so stale or duplicated content surfaces as confident but wrong answers.

Which terms are related to Knowledge Base?

Closely related concepts include Structured Output (AI), Context Recall, Context Precision, Continuous Integration Agent. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.

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