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
wallace_pond is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
draft_act is a legislative bill	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_dj_kat_show is a TV show	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
missouri_baptist_university is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
suzanne_morgan_williams is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	95.6
shaquille_oneal is an athlete also known as shaq_o_neal	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
amiens is a city located in the country france_france	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
mr__bush is a U.S. politician endorsed by the U.S. politician gore	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
keith_richards is a musician who is part of rolling_stones	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
public_affairs is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0