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
pietro_adamo is a visual artist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
linda_kozlowski is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
radio_pop is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
village_voice is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
final_fantasy_chronicles__final_fantasy_4 is software	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
ralph_friedgen coaches the team maryland	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
wsm is a radio station in the city nashville	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
spiders is an animal that preys on animals	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
belgium is a country located in the geopolitical location foreign_countries	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
equestrian is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6