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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
larval_tapeworm is a virus	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
l_a__hunter is a chef	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
muktinath_temple is a place of worship	1112	24-jul-2018	99.7
party_of_pensioners_of_macedonia is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
colibri_vineyard_and_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0

physiological is an academic program at the university state_university	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
sony is a company in the economic sector of large_electronics	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
ukhta is a city located in the country russia	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
ohio_state_university is a sports team that plays in the league international	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bob_huggins works for west_virginia	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0

Read the Web
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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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