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
david_ma is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
hazel_green is a geopolitical entity that is a location	1111	06-jul-2018	92.2
tocoa is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
possible_financial_fraud ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lake_eustis_pupfish is an animal	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
barclays is a bank that has bob_diamond as its CEO	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
aomori is a city located in the country japan	1116	12-sep-2018	98.2
madison_square_park_conservancy is a park in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dh is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
heathrow is an attraction that will be fall in city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0