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
bodybuilder_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
buy_trandate is a product	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
port_of_bandar_neka is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
nodosinellidae is a mollusk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dharampur is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
eve and garden are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
port_columbus_international_airport is an attraction that will be fall in city columbus	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
meryl_streep starred in the movie devil_wears_prada	1115	03-sep-2018	99.2
fluconazole is a drug worked on by pfizer	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
joseph_conrad wrote the book the_heart_of_darkness	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9