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
james_boyd is an African person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
humen_pearl_river_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
dyce_airport is a transportation system	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
community_church_of_the_nazarene is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
school_academic_records is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
arkansas_state_university is an organization known by the acronym arkansas_state_university	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lake_winnebago is a lake in the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
jeep is a specific automobile maker dealer in virginia	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
cable looks like connections	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
autodesk_inc_ terminated the employment of carol_a__bartz	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0