6. The machine of claim 1 , further comprising a knowledge base comprising a plurality of executable stories, where an executable story is an executable belief network comprising a plurality of hypotheses, evidence supporting the plurality of hypotheses, and a plurality of text documents from which the evidence supporting the plurality of hypotheses was extracted.
6. The machine of claim 1 , further comprising a knowledge base comprising a plurality of executable stories, where an executable story is an executable belief network comprising a plurality of hypotheses, evidence supporting the plurality of hypotheses, and a plurality of text documents from which the evidence supporting the plurality of hypotheses was extracted. 7. The machine of claim 6 , the plurality of inferencing algorithms comprising an inductive reasoner that determines appropriate structural changes in the story of interest, including the addition and removal of the plurality of hypotheses comprising the story of interest as well as links connecting pairs of hypotheses within the plurality of hypotheses, in response to new evidence from the information extraction algorithm.