NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Read the Web
Browse the Knowledge Base!

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:

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.

Recently-Learned Facts Follow NELL on Twitter

instance iteration date learned confidence
links_hours is a criminal 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
spencer_wallace is american 1111 06-jul-2018 91.5  
diversicon is a convention 1111 06-jul-2018 99.9  
yamaha_motor_company is an automobile manufacturer 1111 06-jul-2018 99.3  
cardiac_vein is a vein 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
naomi_klein wrote the book guardian 1113 15-aug-2018 96.9  
first_adam and garden_of_eden are family members 1113 15-aug-2018 93.8  
ertapenem is a drug worked on by merck 1114 25-aug-2018 100.0  
stephen_labaton is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times 1112 24-jul-2018 93.8  
belgium is a country located in the geopolitical location foreign_countries 1112 24-jul-2018 93.8