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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
city_credit_union_independence_mo is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
orthogonal_polynomials is a scientific term	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
furniture_moulds is a fungus	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
fairbanks_valley_farms is a farm	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
costectomy is a medical procedure	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0

italy was the looser of n2000_european_cup	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
oscar_wilde wrote the book an_ideal_husband	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
mr_ is a person who belongs to the organization microsoft_corporation001	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
astrakhan is a city located in the geopolitical location russia	1113	15-aug-2018	99.8
philadelphia_eagles is headquartered in the state or province ny	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4

Read the Web
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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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