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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.

So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,810,379 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning. You can track NELL's progress below or @cmunell on Twitter, browse and download its knowledge base, read more about our technical approach, or join the discussion group.

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
scarborough_state_beach is a trail	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
los_principales_buscadores is a currency	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
n11_28_14 is a term used by physicists	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
infectious_viral_infection is a virus	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
small_awareness is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3

ivan_lendl is an athlete who beat john_mcenroe	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
n11 is the number of people that died in the event n1999_bourbonnais__illinois__train_accident	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
porno_para_ricardo is a musician in the genre punk	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
andrew_luck is an athlete that played for the team of school stanford	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
irondequoit_bay is a lake in the state or province ontario	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9

Read the Web
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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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