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
julia_hirschberg is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	92.8
esc_nro__462_manuel_cabello_escobillar is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
radical_party_or_rp is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
comment_name_email_ is software used by machine-learning scientists	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
press_picture is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	97.8
nairobi is a city located in the geopolitical location kenya	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
montana is a sate or province located in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
windsurfing is a sport with fans in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
procter___gamble_co_ is an organization known by the acronym procter___gamble	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
south_peak is a mountain in the state or province alaska	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0