We introduce an automatic system that achieves state-of-the-art results on the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC), a common sense reasoning task that requires diverse, complex forms of inference and knowledge. Our method uses a knowledge hunting module to gather text from the web, which serves as evidence for candidate problem resolutions. Given an input problem, our system generates relevant queries to send to a search engine, then extracts and classifies knowledge from the returned results and weighs them to make a resolution. Our approach improves F1 performance on the full WSC by 0.21 over the previous best and represents the first system to exceed 0.5 F1. We further demonstrate that the approach is competitive on the Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) task, which suggests that it is generally applicable. 1 a) The man couldn't lift his son because he was so weak. (Answer: the man) 1 b) The man couldn't lift his son because he was so heavy. (Answer: son) 2 a) The older students were bullying the younger ones, so we punished them. (Answer: the older students) 2 b) The older students were bullying the younger ones, so we rescued them. (Answer: the younger ones)

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