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
leafminer_fly is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sofware_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
liberation_of_gabriel_king_book is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
john_p__meyer is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fort_bragg_advocate_news is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
general_motors is a company also known as gm	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
general_mitchell_international is an attraction that will be fall in city downtown_milwaukee	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
flea an arthropod that can be very irritating to mammal pets	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
paul001 is a person who graduated from the university college	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
madinah is a city located in the country arabia_saudita	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9