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
stella_cilento is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
final_fantasy_chronicles__final_fantasy_4 is software	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
gaza_hospital is a hospital	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
seven_year_clock is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
people_s_revolutionary_militias is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
cleveland_hopkins is an airport in the city cleveland	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
florida_bay is a lake in the state or province florida	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lewis is a person who graduated from the university state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
linda_hogan is a person who has residence in the city miami_beach	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank in taiwan	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0