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
canyon_audi is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	95.3
wood_river_area is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
mackenzie_phillips is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
grand_prix_triberg_schwarzwald is a sporting event	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fieldcon is a convention	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
tata terminated the employment of b_muthuraman	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
santa_clara is a city also known as los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
jeep is a company that produces jeep_liberty	1114	25-aug-2018	99.2
jeep makes the automobile jeep_liberty	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
alessandra_stanley is a journalist that writes for the publication times	1112	24-jul-2018	99.9