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
icgf is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
chris_perkins is a journalist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
medieval_dining_room is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
prescription_tramadol_cash is a muscle	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
rights_administration is a political issue	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
dragonflies is a type of creatures	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
brown_stadium is a stadium or event venue also known as browns_stadium	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
ganden_monastery is a place of worship that practices the religion of buddhism	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
andre_miller plays in the league nba	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bed is often found in foot_unit	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8