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
spiyder_bite_lymph_nodes is a part of the body	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n63_kilometers is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
basement_laundry_room is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
capcom_vs_snk__millennium_fight_2000 is software	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
riverhead_centre is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
indianapolis is the home city of the sports team baltimore_colts_in_super_bowl_iii	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kfbk is headquartered in the city sacramento	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jeff_bezos is the CEO of amazon_com	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
indiana is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
boise is the capital city of the state or province idaho	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0