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
n6_00_pm___9_00_pm is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
alexander_ovechkin is a person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
texas_holdem_tournament is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
united_kingdom___berkshire is a country	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
joey_barton is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anthony_scirrotto is an athlete who injured his/her hands	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4
bobby_gilbert was born in the state or province pennsylvania	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the coach vermeil won the trophy or tournament super_bowl_xlii	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the sports team yankees was the winner of n1947_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
oscar_wilde wrote the book the_importance_of_being_earnest	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0