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
aiprosoft_ps3_video_converter is a consumer electronic device	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
joseph_j__fischer is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
yu_fung is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
north_greenwich_station is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
soup_with_dumplings_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
tallahassee is the capital city of the state or province florida	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
revolution_health_group is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
timolide is a drug worked on by merck	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
vladimir_putin represents the region russia_federation	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
nissan is a specific automobile maker dealer in tyler	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0