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
jeremy_miller is an African person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
commensal_spider is an arachnid	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
lower_extremities is a part of the body	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
billie_johnson is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
enryaku_ji_temple is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
alexander is a person who has attended the school college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
mark is a person who moved to the state georgia	1115	03-sep-2018	99.8
kansas_state is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
red_wings is a sports team also known as pittsburgh_penguins	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
michael_jackson is a person who has age 50	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0