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
tour_de_pei is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bahia_principe_akumal_hotel is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
wedh_tv is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
death_on_the_nile is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
public_management_program is an academic field	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
shockers is a sports team that played in games	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
jerome_robbins belongs to the ethnic group russian_jewish	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
winnipeg_jets is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
saint has citizenship in the country hungary	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
black_hair has color cut	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9