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
erick_zonca is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
vieques_airport is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
megaman_zero_3 is software	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
bathtub_5_pieces_mixer_tap is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
american_lung_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
southampton is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
oscar_wilde wrote the book the_importance_of_being_earnest	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
roissy_charles_de_gaulle is an attraction that will be fall in city paris	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
steve001 is an athlete who injured his/her arm	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2
augustus_ii is a person born on the date may_12	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0