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
cold_medicines is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	90.8
west_essex_tribune is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
donald_burton is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
redpath_museum is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
color_processing is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	97.5
dwight_howard is an athlete coached by stan_van_gundy	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
english is a language used in the university florida_international_university	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
judah has wife tamar	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
michael_crichton is a person who died at the age of 66	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
frank_marshall died in the country scotland	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0