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
paenibacillus_larvae_subsp__pulvifaciens is a bacterium 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
white_prunicola_scale is an invertebrate 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
joyce_svitak is an African person 1111 06-jul-2018 90.9  
irrational_thinking_exercises is a cognitive action 1111 06-jul-2018 99.9  
antonina_bean is a legume 1111 06-jul-2018 98.2  
cows is an animal that is a kind of larger_animals 1112 24-jul-2018 100.0  
huggins is a person who belongs to the organization cincinnati 1111 06-jul-2018 93.8  
liverpool_john_moores_university is a sports team that won the league_title 1114 25-aug-2018 100.0  
geoffrey_rush starred in the movie shine 1115 03-sep-2018 96.9  
bill has wife betty 1116 12-sep-2018 98.4