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
em_poker is a sporting event	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
truelocal is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	91.6
film_historian_leonard_maltin is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	90.3
your_choice_of_radio is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
goleta_city is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
jonglei is a state or province located in the geopolitical location sudan	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4
memorial_sloan_kettering is a hospital in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
israeli_citizens participated in the event result	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
ricky_jean_francois is an athlete who injured his/her hand	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
drew_bledsoe is an athlete who led new_england_patriots	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0