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
email_dale is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	92.7
harold_brodkey is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
arteria_ciliaris_anterior is an artery	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
superfine_sugar is a fruit	1112	24-jul-2018	99.6
kathleen_walsh is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
national is a company that has an office in the country egypt	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought bnp_paribas	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
paul001 held the position of king	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
suzuki makes the automobile grand_vitara	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
mother_teresa is a person born on the date n1910	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0