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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
wcbb is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
pieneman_jan_willem is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
reading_lamp is a household item	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
it_s_alright is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
environmental_partnership_foundation is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	91.5

atlanta_hartsfield is an attraction that will be fall in city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
kahlil_gibran wrote the book the_prophet	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
hanover is the capital city of the state or province lower_saxony	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
rio is a city also known as santa_fe	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
china_development_bank is a company that has an office in the country china	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8

Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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