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
superior_and_inferior_labial_branches is a nerve	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
chad_billingsley is a Mexican person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hot_deviled_crab is a crustacean	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
container_candle is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
bumpzee is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	92.2
times is a company that has an office in the city san_francisco	1112	24-jul-2018	99.8
miami_dolphins is a sports team that won the super_bowl	1113	15-aug-2018	99.2
nissan makes the automobile sentra	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
canadian_islamic_congress is an organization known by the acronym cic	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
system is a subpart of hot_water	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0