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
rochelle_togo_figa is a CEO	1111	06-jul-2018	94.4
jackson_laboratory is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	90.7
emmen_zoo is a zoo	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
familiar_sound is a perception event	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
midwestern_grain is a grain	1112	24-jul-2018	93.7
nueva_york terminated the employment of rudy_giuliani	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
head a muscle located in bodypart arms	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
register_guard is a newspaper in the city eugene	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
spagnuolo is a person who belongs to the organization new	1111	06-jul-2018	95.3
moses is the father of abram	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8