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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
phone_cloning is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
fort_lauderdale_film_festival_shorts_competition is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hahniidae is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
lafollette_press is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sulcus_corpus_callosum is a kind of brain tissue	1111	06-jul-2018	96.8

nick_hogan is the parent of linda_hogan	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
selene is the mother of ersa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jerome_k__jerome contributed to the creative work three_men_in_a_boat	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
muncie is a city located in the geopolitical location ball_corp	1114	25-aug-2018	99.8
early_childhood is an academic program at the university state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	99.2

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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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