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
fried_wontons is a visualizable thing	1111	06-jul-2018	95.8
maine_hospital_association is a trade union	1112	24-jul-2018	90.3
dolex_21 is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	94.1
modern_ensuite_bathroom is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
isa_conferences is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
lake_missaukee is a lake in the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
greenville_spartanburg is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
modern_hebrew is the language of the country palestine	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
providence is the home city of the sports team brown_university	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
aaron is the father of eleazar	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8