Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

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:

• 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.

Recently-Learned Facts

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
jacopo_ligozzi is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
russian_social_democratic_workers is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	96.1
youtube is an agent	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
iclw is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
wchy is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
russian_language is the language of the country russia	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9
daihatsu is a specific automobile maker dealer in _uk	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
national is a bank that bought corporation_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
greenville_spartanburg is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
nazi_soviet_pact happened on the date august_1939	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0