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
adam_bostick is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
malabon_zoo_und_aquarium is a zoo	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
alfred_lescott is a monarch	1111	06-jul-2018	97.0
white_picture is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
critical_middle_school_years is a non-disease physiological condition	1111	06-jul-2018	95.1
cooper_hewitt_national_design_museum is a museum in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
sweats is a clothing item to go with shirts	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anderson is a person who has attended the school high_school	1114	25-aug-2018	99.2
kxci is a radio station in the city tucson	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brentwood_inn is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0