A system and method for training a virtual assistant to recognize and learn new context for known terms is presented. The method includes receiving a natural language input, corresponding to at least one of a desired intent and a desired entity, at a natural language processor. The method involves scoring known intents based on the natural language input to generate an intent confidence score for each known intent, and scoring known entities based on the natural language input to generate an entity confidence score for each known entity. The method involves comparing the intent confidence scores and entity confidence scores to a threshold value, and determining that the natural language input does not correspond to at least one of the known intents and the known entities based on the comparing. Finally, at least one of a new intent and a new entity are determined based on the natural language input.