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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
judge_benjamin_settle is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
orbaden_konferens_and_fritid is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	94.4
battle_of_cheriton is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
new_albany_gazette is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
paver_mold is a fungus	1111	06-jul-2018	94.2

vermont is a state that is bordered by the state washington	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
the sport baseball was played at n1934_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brewers is a sports team that won the world_series	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
commission_junction_and_linkshare is an organization known by the acronym commision_junction	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
chattanooga is a city located in the state or province tennessee	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0

Read the Web
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NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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