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
billie_johnson is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
eligibility_requirement is a political issue	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
personal_selling is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
rich_peanut_sauce is a grain	1111	06-jul-2018	92.2
wrur is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
clive_davis001 was born in the city brooklyn	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
spiders is an animal that preys on pets	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
at_t_center is a stadium or event venue located in the city san_antonio	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
dodgers is headquartered in the state or province ny	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
fred_goodwin is the CEO of scotland	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2