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
trade_unions_rights is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	95.9
n1984_school_election is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	93.4
bright_golden_glow is a perception event	1111	06-jul-2018	96.5
milford_lexus is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
import_specialist is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	96.1
hia_farrow belongs to the ethnic group american	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kwtv_tv is headquartered in the city oklahoma_city	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the home stadium of adrian_aucoin is wrigley_field	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
central_london is the capital city of the country britain	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
world_wrestling_entertainment has acquired wcw	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8