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
nokia_accessories is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
kirkop is a state or a province	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
n11_41_pm is a time	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
movement_for_a_liberated_martinique is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
manuel_abella is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
army_national_guard is headquartered in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
air_pacific is a company that has an office in the city honolulu	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
carla_del_ponte belongs to the ethnic group swiss	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
harrison is a musician who plays the guitar	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
miami is the home city of the sports team drury_panthers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0