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
yellowstone_journal_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
osama_bin_laden_al_qaeda is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
army_black_knights is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_barroom_heroes is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	98.0
cit_group_inc is a company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jake_tapper works for abc_news	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
raleigh_durham_international_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
paul001 has wife karen001	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
chevrolet is a specific automobile maker dealer in diego	1114	25-aug-2018	99.6
red_tank_top is a clothing item to go with skirt	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8