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
scorer_s_table is an item found on the floor	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
homebound_teacher is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	98.3
michael_shea is a journalist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
seasickness is a physical characteristic	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
disaster_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
istanbul_port is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
jacob is the father of lt__joseph_r__hunt	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
paavo_nurmi belongs to the ethnic group finnish	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
highlands_hospital is a hospital in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hornets_basketball_livestream_29_02_2012 is a sports team that plays in the league nba	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0