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
hope_mason is an African person 1111 06-jul-2018 90.9  
more_mirror is an item often found in a bedroom 1111 06-jul-2018 99.8  
n7_24 is a term used by physicists 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
day_festival is a music festival 1111 06-jul-2018 100.0  
eca_countries is a country 1111 06-jul-2018 95.9  
class_d_airports is a generalization of eugene_s_mahlon_sweet__eug_ 1112 24-jul-2018 100.0  
ingrid_bergman starred in the movie casablanca 1116 12-sep-2018 98.4  
greg_norman_and_ted_robinson is an athlete who wins australian_open 1114 25-aug-2018 100.0  
the_today_show is a company in the economic sector of news 1114 25-aug-2018 93.0  
fluid can cause dehydration 1112 24-jul-2018 98.4