Snowman: A Million-scale Chinese Commonsense Knowledge Graph Distilled
  from Foundation Model
Jiaan Wang Jianfeng Qu Yunlong Liang Zhixu Li An Liu Guanfeng Liu Xin Zheng
Constructing commonsense knowledge graphs (CKGs) has attracted wide research
attention due to its significant importance in cognitive intelligence.
Nevertheless, existing CKGs are typically oriented to English, limiting the
research in non-English languages. Meanwhile, the emergence of foundation
models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 has shown promising intelligence with the help of
reinforcement learning from human feedback. Under the background, in this
paper, we utilize foundation models to construct a Chinese CKG, named Snowman.
Specifically, we distill different types of commonsense head items from
ChatGPT, and continue to use it to collect tail items with respect to the head
items and pre-defined relations. Based on the preliminary analysis, we find the
negative commonsense knowledge distilled by ChatGPT achieves lower human
acceptance compared to other knowledge. Therefore, we design a simple yet
effective self-instruct filtering strategy to filter out invalid negative
commonsense. Overall, the constructed Snowman covers more than ten million
Chinese commonsense triples, making it the largest Chinese CKG. Moreover, human
studies show the acceptance of Snowman achieves 90.6\%, indicating the
high-quality triples distilled by the cutting-edge foundation model. We also
conduct experiments on commonsense knowledge models to show the usability and
effectiveness of our Snowman.