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
roger_vadim is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n05_15_2006 is a date	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
turkey_stuffing_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
national_rural_letter_carriers_association is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
adam_bostick is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
midway is an attraction that will be fall in city chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
battersea_power_station is a tourist attraction in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
holly_madison is a person who has residence in the city st_helens	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
n7_07am is the time of the event two_earthquakes_hit_the_east_midlands	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
london_heathrow_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0