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
bathroom_fixture is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
empoli is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
spanner_crab is a crustacean	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
volunteer_undergraduate_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
children_s_museum_of_richmond is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
the loosing score of n2002_stanley_cup was nonneginteger:n1	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the_great_mosque_of_taza is a place of worship that practices the religion of islam	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
patriots_35_21 is a sports team also known as former_green_bay_packers	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
national is a company that has an office in the country bulgaria	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
new_york_city_police_museum is a museum in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0