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
digastric_branch is a nerve	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
alger_vineyards_and_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mayor_william_donald_schaefer is a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ohio_valley_college_of_technology is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n10626 is a ZIP code	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
hilton_brussels is a hotel in the city brussels	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
xml_feed_tweet_seattle_mariners is an organization also known as blue_jays	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
joseph_conrad wrote the book the_secret_agent	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
newark is an attraction that will be fall in city newark	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
united_nations is an organization known by the acronym un	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0