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
rights_education_programs is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
queen_poster_bed is a kind of furniture	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
hair_interlining is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
banque_de_la_r_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_wonderful_story_of_henry_sugar_and_six_more is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bush is a person who was written about in new_york_times	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
bay is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
frank_fertitta_iii is the CEO of station	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
william_safire is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
little_rock is the capital city of the state or province arkansas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0