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
cranberry_relish_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
hometown_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
new_zealand is a geolocatable thing	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
tiazac_purchase is a product	1111	06-jul-2018	97.2
new_mexico_territory is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
elizabeth has husband edwards	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
himanchal_pradesh is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
beihai is a city located in the country china	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9
math__monkeys__and_the_developing_brain occurrs at the date april_25__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kommersant_daily is a newspaper in the city moscow	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9