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
bay_shore_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
federal_advisory_committee is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
scytodidae is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
illusion_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
lower_columbia_college_fine_arts_gallery is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n100___orange is a beverage made from juice	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
anne_perry wrote the book execution_dock	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lord is the parent of yeshua	1115	03-sep-2018	99.2
st__john is a city located in the geopolitical location newfoundland	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
the sport golf was played at n2003_british_open	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0