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
lauren_koslow is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n1950__ is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
egg_roll is a visualizable thing	1111	06-jul-2018	98.3
poker_tourn_ament is a sports game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jesse_crain is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
brad_pitt starred in the movie curious_case	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4
kmph_tv is a TV station in the city fresno	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hussein_kamel died in the country iraq	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country thailand	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
citibank is a bank in china	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0