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
u_s__army_military_police is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
bear_creek_canoeing is a hobby	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
miami_fire_fighters_federal_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
state_senate_president is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
malmignatte_spider is an arachnid	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
micron_technology_inc is headquartered in the state or province idaho	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank in the_philippines	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kirk_douglas starred in the movie spartacus	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
robot_futures occurrs in the building gates_and_hillman_centers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kcpq is a TV affiliate of the network fox	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0