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
kjzy is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
andrea_lillio is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hull_area is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
contact_angelique is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	92.2
libyan_resistance is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	92.3
pests is a type of spiders	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
calcitriol is a drug worked on by abbot_laboratories	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
jada_pinkett_smith has husband smith	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hurricane_agnes happened on the date june_1972	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
oliver_stone contributed to the creative work jfk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0