We aim at a construc'on of easy-‐to-‐use Japanese common sense knowledge base for seman'c analysis in natural language processing. We define that predicates (verbs, adjec'ves, verbal noun*1) which co-‐occur with a noun are the common sense knowledge of the noun, but of course, all of the predicates which co-‐occurs with noun are not appropriate as common sense knowledge. Hence, we describe how to select the appropriate predicates. *1: The term verbal noun, or what we call sahen noun, is subgroup of noun which is also used as verb when followed by a suffix “suru” Defini&on of common sense knowledge We define the predicates characterizing the noun as common sense knowledge, and make the following hypothesis as specific property of them. (1) The predicate a is the common sense knowledge of the noun n when the pair of a and n are frequently co-‐occurred in sentences. (2) The predicate a which co-‐occurs with any noun is not the appropriate common sense knowledge because the noun is characterized by the set of common sense knowledge. (3) Whether the predicate a is a correct common sense or not, it depends on the number of unique nouns which co-‐occurred with a. Automa&c selec&on of predicates First, we extract the pairs of noun and predicate which are co-‐occurred in the Web texts, and sort the nouns by number of co-‐ occurring predicates based on the hypothesis (1). The figure shows the emergence distribu'on of predicate in the top 1,000 nouns (N=1,000). As the emergence distribu'on, we realize that the number of unique predicates drama'cally increase when a number of unique nouns is extremely large or few. Under the hypothesis (2), we see the predicates which co-‐occurred with any nouns as incorrect common sense. The noun which co-‐occurred with many predicates also have a lot of dele'ng predicates under the hypothesis (3). As a inves'ga'on result, the number of dele'ng predicates decrease in a staircase paUern, and there are singular points in N=700, 1,100, 1,600, 2,500 or 3,600. Hence, we decided the number of dele'ng predicates for each noun based on the result. 0" 500" 1000" 1500" 2000" 2500" 0" 200" 400" 600" 800" 1000" Containing the incorrectly predicates based on hypothesis (2) confidence for as the common sense based on the hypothesis (1) high low horizontal axis: a number of unique nouns co-‐occurring with predicates ver'cal axis: a number of unique predicates