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
rita_jackson is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
richard_markowitz is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
n2_737 is a programming language	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
conrad_n__hilton_foundation is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_world_is_yours is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
creative_coalition is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
youtube terminated the employment of chen	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ralph_mcquarrie is a person who died at the age of 82	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
national is a bank that bought insured	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
dallas is a city located in the geopolitical location national	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4