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
pine_looper_moth is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
woodman_s_markets is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
pinnacle_arkansas is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
en_suite_master_bathroom is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
sand_island can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
madonna is the parent of angels	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
accupril is a drug worked on by pfizer	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
states is a state or province located in the geopolitical location kenya	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
indira_gandhi_international_airport is an airport in the city delhi	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
gazprom_neft terminated the employment of rem_vyakhirev	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0