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
capital_university is a school	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
abingdon_town_centre is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
national_art_educators_association is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
collins_zoo is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ensuite_cabins is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	97.8
holly_madison is a person who has age 28	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
webex is a company in the economic sector of internet	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
china_development_bank is a company that has an office in the country china	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
al_gore001 is a person who has residence in the city nashville	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jonathan_schwartz is a top member of sun_microsystems	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0