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
bass_anglers_sportsman_society is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
parkesburg_family_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
information_management_magazine is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	95.8
it_s_you is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
riverhead_new_york is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n4 is the number of people that died in the event n2006_huntsville__alabama_bus_accident	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
philadelphia is the home city of the sports team falcons	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
gulf_countries is a generalization of arabia_saudita	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4
rafael_nadal is an athlete who wins french_open	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jackson_diehl is a journalist that writes for the publication washington	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9