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
tim_dekay is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
icvk is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
battle_of_toungoo is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
midwestern_grain is a grain	1112	24-jul-2018	93.7
san_pedro_del_ycuamandiy_oelig is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.9
staff_field_directions_team_online_registration_aggies_camps_team_archive_team_archive_team_archive_league_home_the_morganton_aggies is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	96.7
mother is the mother of joseph001	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
sundance was born in the city fort_worth	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
john_bale plays the sport baseball	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
pets is an animal that is a kind of spiders	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4