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
deployment_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
p__hindemith is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	90.0
icvt is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
communications_consultant is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n30601 is a ZIP code	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
robin died in the location new_south_wales	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
salad can be served with beer	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
barack_obama is a person who was written about in the_economist	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jason has wife kim	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
the sports leage nhl uses the venue madison_square_garden	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0