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
countless_islands can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
monterey_college_of_law is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
national_economic_action_council is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
computers_and_technology_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
informazioni_turistiche is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
villanova_university is a sports team that plays in the league international	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
chevrolet is a company that produces volt	1114	25-aug-2018	99.6
jeff_porcaro is a musician who is part of toto	1113	15-aug-2018	99.8
mini is a specific automobile maker dealer in virginia	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
bed is often found in bedroom_cottage	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0