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
poker_holdm_poker is a cardgame	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
news_target is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
soda_drinks is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	92.7
salerno_lake is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
forested_wetlands can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
kresge_theatre is a room in the building college_of_fine_arts	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
yahweh is the father of yahshua	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mary and god_the_father are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
spiders is an animal that preys on pets	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
qwest_field is a stadium or event venue located in the city seattle	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6