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
lorazepam_lorazepam is an archaeon	1111	06-jul-2018	93.9
waterless_cookware is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
marshfield_medical_center_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
history_the_federal_government is an academic field	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
frisian_national_party is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
mahalalel is the father of jared	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
tim_redding is an athlete who led new_york_mets	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
jeff_bezos is a top member of amazon_com	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jeep makes the automobile jeep_cherokee	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
smoky_mountain is a mountain in the state or province tennessee	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0