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
fried_sausage is a type of meat	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
picture_lymph_nodes is a part of the body	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
born_to_rock is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
six_minute_cinema_digital_filmmaking_festival is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hair_gel_and_hair_mousse is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
the_national_marine_aquarium is an attraction that will be fall in city plymouth	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
pests is called spiders	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
dragonflies is an arthropod that looks like damselflies	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
place is a street in the city hague	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hiram_monserrate is a person who has age nonneginteger:n41	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0