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
cape_girardeau_gmc is a company	1111	06-jul-2018	95.4
kymulga_mill_and_covered_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
n1986_school_election is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	93.2
azay_le_rideau is a geopolitical entity that is a location	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
the_bloody_chamber_and_other_stories is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sylvia_plath is a person who has attended the school cambridge	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kmph_tv is a TV station in the city fresno	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
santonio_holmes is an athlete who wins super_bowl	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
reuben and eleazar_the_priest are siblings	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
emma_bunton is a musician who is part of spice_girls	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8