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
valrico is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
n10_30_a_m__2_p_m_ is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
berry_avenue is a highway	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
alliance_first_friends_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
epic_pagan_metal is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
the sports team france was the winner of n2000_european_cup	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
woman001 is the guilty in the event police__man_leaves_scene_of_accident_after_striking_car___wdrb_41_louisville_news	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the_philadelphia_inquirer is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
zucker is a top member of nbc_news	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
pelagics is a type of rays	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0