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
n10____b is a programming language	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
sweet_wine is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
hair_interlining is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
shower_faucet_ce_certificate_stainless is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
kirby_bellars_priory is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dodger_stadium is the home venue for the sports team los_angeles_dodgers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
roy_scheider was born in the state or province new_jersey	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
recluse is an arthropod as well as spiders also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
senate hired state	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ford is a company that produces probe	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0