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
maple_springs_bible_baptist_college___seminary is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
ischiorectal_fossa is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
mercedes_cl600 is a kind of vehicle	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
projection_alarm is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
fly_globespan is a company	1111	06-jul-2018	92.0
nagoya_university is a sports team that plays in the league international	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
victoria was born in the city birmingham	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
deals is a building located in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
huawei_technologies was responsible for huawei_ascend_p7_hands_on_review__latest_android_flagship_is_sleek_and_affordable	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
financial_times is a newspaper in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0