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
shorts_yesterday is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
texas_health_presbyterian_hospital_denton is a hospital	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
swindon_area is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
howard_university is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
eva_steflova is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mother is the parent of lord	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
senses is a subpart of the body within system	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
body arises from left_ventricle	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
canadian_islamic_congress is an organization known by the acronym cjc	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
chrissie_hynde is a musician who is part of pretenders	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0