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
moon_so_ri is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	90.2
lemon_meringue_pie_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
central_pattaya_hotel is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
party_s_white_mushroom_sauce is a condiment	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
scott_county_bar_association is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
beatrix_potter wrote the book the_tale_of_peter_rabbit	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
michael_moore directed the movie bowling_for_columbine	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
n6152 is the number of people injured in the event n2011_t_hoku_earthquake_and_tsunami	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
greg001 is a person who has attended the school college	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
community_arts is an academic program at the university college	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9