NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Read the Web
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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
n1959_62 is a year 1111 06-jul-2018 95.9  
national_co_ordination_committee is a professional organization 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
curried_lentil_soup is a recipe 1111 06-jul-2018 98.8  
reticulated_blunthead_tree_snake is a reptile 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
susan_ducey is a U.S. politician 1111 06-jul-2018 99.9  
larry_johnson is an athlete who injured his/her foot 1115 03-sep-2018 100.0  
nicoderm_cq_patch is expected to come to market on august 1116 12-sep-2018 100.0  
the country germany uses the currency euros 1116 12-sep-2018 100.0  
steven_spielberg directed the movie close_encounters 1115 03-sep-2018 100.0  
n0 is the number of people injured in the event chappaquiddick_incident 1116 12-sep-2018 100.0