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
newport_township is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
big_bend_canyon_lizard is a reptile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
action_shooting is a sport	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
justice_jobs is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	96.7
port_of_zhenjiang is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mahalo terminated the employment of jason_calacanis	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
taronga_zoo is a zoo in the city sydney	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
falcons is a sports team also known as former_green_bay_packers	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
john_steinbeck wrote the book travels_with_charley__in_search_of_america	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jobs is a person who moved to the state massachusetts	1115	03-sep-2018	99.9