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
gritti_palace_hotel is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
james_spaulding is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	96.5
la_sirena_hotel is a tourist attraction	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
the_senior_allstars is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	96.0
premier_bird is a vertebrate	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
daniel_craig starred in the movie quantum_of_solace	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
hilton_brussels is a hotel in the city brussels	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jaguar competes with the company responsible for rolls_royce_launches_ghost_series_ii	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
toni_morrison wrote the book the_bluest_eye	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jane_gross is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4