# Generated Knowledge Prompting

> Generated knowledge prompting first asks the model to produce relevant facts about a question, then supplies those generated facts as context when answering it.

- Identifier: PTL-0044
- Category: Reasoning Elicitation
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/generated-knowledge-prompting/
- Introduced: 2021

## Description

It acts like retrieval from the model's own parametric knowledge, and improved commonsense reasoning benchmarks in the original study.

## Related terms

- [Step-Back Prompting](https://protologue.com/t/step-back-prompting/)
- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://protologue.com/t/retrieval-augmented-generation/)

## Sources

- Liu et al. (2021). Generated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08387

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Generated Knowledge Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0044). https://protologue.com/t/generated-knowledge-prompting/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)