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
carolans is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
gats_agreement is a TV show	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
six_minute_cinema_digital_filmmaking_festival is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
houston_baptist_university is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
media___methods_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
alanis_morissette was born in the city ottawa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
rudy_seanez plays the sport baseball	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
baseball is a sport played in the venue county_stadium	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
abbott_northwestern_hospital is a hospital in the city minneapolis	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
philadelphia_enquirer is a newspaper in the city philadelphia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0