Yes, it's called Cyc and he's been busy building it since then. They have literally been inputting knowledge facts into a computer since the 80s. It's partially automatic by parsing text from the internet now. They had a goal in terms of number of rules that they set in the 80s, when they'd get intelligent behavior and he showed that they are getting close now.

The talk is from 2005 and it also two years back since I watched it, so I am not confident to summarize it. I was quite impressed when I watched it for the first time, though. I reason I brought it up is more, like "see what you could do with an ontology", then "this is what it should look like" or "an ontology is all you need".