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
facial______________vein is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
palace_theatre_london is a stadium or event venue	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
aiseesoft_iphone_4s_transfer_for_mac is a video game system	1111	06-jul-2018	97.0
all_species_information is a scientific term	1111	06-jul-2018	95.7
broken_bow_lake is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the country south_africa uses the currency rand	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brian_urlacher is an athlete coached by lovie_smith	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jfk_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
gordon is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location st__petersburg	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
pondicherry is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9