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
westmar_university is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
avoriaz is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
petit_carr__du_val_de_meuse_cheese is a cheese	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
hundred_nuclear_weapons is a weapon	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
gateway_community_college___ct is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
al_harrington coaches in the league nba	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jacob is the parent of lt__joseph_r__hunt	1115	03-sep-2018	90.7
wort is a radio station in the city madison	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
jeep makes the automobile land_rover_discovery	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
us_dept is an organization also known as administration	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8