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
james_l__halperin is american	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joe_morgan is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
elementi_grafici is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
robert_robertson is a journalist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
viking_death_metal is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
youtube terminated the employment of chen	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
abubakar_abdurajak_janjalani belongs to the religion muslim	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
cleveland_cavaliers participated in the event finals	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
raptors is a sports team that plays against magic	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wsm is a radio station in the city nashville	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7