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
ksyx is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
gossack_mountain is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
gnaphosidae is an animal	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
bakersracks__com is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
_13 is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
china is a country also known as us_	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
montreal_expos is an organization created at the date n1969	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
chris_volstad plays for the team chicago_cubs	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
grand_traverse_bay is a lake in the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	91.6
tampa_bay_devil_rays is a subpart of mlb	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0