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
old_bridge_gateway_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marlboro_new_jersey is an island	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
troy_francis is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
the_real_life_of_sebastian_knight is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n2003_assembly_election is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
kirk graduated from state_university	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
st___louis_cardinals is a sports team that won the world_series	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
crows is an animal that eats seeds	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
fountain_hills is a lake in the state or province arizona	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
red_wings is an organization also known as blackhawks	1113	15-aug-2018	99.9