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
kristin_kreuk is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mole_cricket is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sauvignon_blanc_and_semillon is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
international_college is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
political_stars is a geometric shape	1111	06-jul-2018	92.8
lewis graduated from state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
henry001 has citizenship in the country ireland	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sharm_el_sheikh is a city located in the geopolitical location egypt	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
baseball is a sport played in the venue shea_stadium	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the coach j_p__arencibia won the trophy or tournament super_bowl	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0