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
professional_development_activities is a hobby	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
rutgers_the_state_university is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
liberal_studies_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
schlegel_s_beaked_blind_snake is a reptile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
new_mexico_territory is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
ian_ferguson was born in the country canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brewers is a sports team that played in series	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
tv looks like area	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
il is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
inntowne_hotel is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0