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
vava_u_group is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.8
available_colors is a color	1112	24-jul-2018	99.5
n10____b is a programming language	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
north_dakota_state_university is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
southern_cream_gravy is a condiment	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
david_kirkpatrick is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
conexant is a company also known as conexant_systems	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
wolf_spiders is an arthropod as well as spiders also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joseph_m__tucci works for emc	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
george_a__romero directed the movie night_of_the_living_dead	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4