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
jfk_international is an airport	1111	06-jul-2018	91.8
sooes_peak is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
liberal_activist is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	96.2
aditi_govitrikar is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
ice_glass is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
siler_city is a city located in the state or province north_carolina	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
eve is the mother of life	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
banteay_srei is a place of worship that practices the religion of hinduism	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
international_journal is an organization also known as rights	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
astrakhan is a city located in the geopolitical location russia	1113	15-aug-2018	99.8