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
mere_point_maine is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	92.0
section_7122_ is a legislative bill	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
foreign_language_teacher is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	95.8
temperature_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
the_first_national_bank_of_sedan is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
icbc is a company that has an office in the country china	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
arantxa_sanchez_vicario is an athlete who beat monica_seles	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anderson is a person who graduated from the university college	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
holey_grail___the_mechanism_of_transport_through_the_nuclear_pore_of_cells occurrs at the date april_17__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bryan is a person who belongs to the organization state_university	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6