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
county_counselor is a job position	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
less_respect is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	96.0
n0_42_miles is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	95.3
joan_yankowitz is an African person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
grand_hyatt_dubai_tower_4_48_0_m_12_built is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
land_rover is a specific automobile maker dealer in canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
king_diamond is a musician in the genre metal	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
television_broadcasting is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
moscow is the capital city of the country russia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country ireland	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0