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
yevgeniya_kedrova is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mid_continent_college is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
coral_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
arteria_segmentalis_basalis_lateralis is an artery	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
richard_a_clarke is a CEO	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
corey_hart is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bruce_gradkowski is related to http___www_yardbarker_com_blog_isaacbruce_home	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
monorail_services is a transportation system located in the city sydney	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
department is an organization also known as service	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought united_bank_of_india	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0