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
china___xinyang is a country	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
colorado_community_revitalization_association is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	90.9
physical_activity_data is a scientific term	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
united_congregational_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ns_symphonic_folk_black_metal is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
chevrolet is a specific automobile maker dealer in maine	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
chicken eat penne_pasta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
american_academy is a museum in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
matt_harrison coaches the team rangers	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
chucks is a clothing item to go with tops	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8