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
para_todos_nosotros is a currency	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
the_barbirolli_string_quartet is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
pocker_game_texas is a board game	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
xith_international_conference is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
antonio_margheriti is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
harrison is a person who graduated from the university college	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
arunachal_pradesh is a state or province located in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
invesco is a stadium or event venue located in the city denver	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1946_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jerusalem is a city located in the geopolitical location jewish_state	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4