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
thelma_mariano is a chef	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
physics_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marcella_bean is a legume	1111	06-jul-2018	98.0
contact_meridian is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	96.4
wkqw is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
annise_parker was born in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
david_climer works for tennessean	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
claremont_hotel is a park in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
tricep a muscle located in bodypart arm	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
manchester_airport is an airport in the city manchester	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0