Methods and systems are provided for facilitating generation and utilization of a commonsense contextualizing machine learning (ML) model, in accordance with embodiments described herein. In embodiments, a commonsense contextual ML model is trained by fine-tuning a pre-trained language model using a set of training path-sentence pairs. Each training path-sentence pair includes a commonsense path, identified via a commonsense knowledge graph, and a natural language sentence identified as contextually related to the commonsense path. The trained commonsense contextualizing ML model can then be used to generate a commonsense inference path for a text input. Such a commonsense inference path can include a sequence of entities and relations that provide commonsense context to the text input. Thereafter, the commonsense inference path can be provided to a natural language processing system for use in performing a natural language processing task.