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
kjzy is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
the_origin_of_the_feces is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
david_lamelas is a visual artist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fox is a TV network	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
istro_romanian is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
_google_ is an organization created at the date n1998	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
david003 held the position of king	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
interest is a building located in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
wired is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
division is headquartered in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0