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
nothing_further_to_add is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
super_street_fighter_ii_turbo_hd_remix is a video game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
zoo_br_ila is a zoo	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
immediate_financial_loss is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
montelle_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bob_huggins works for west_virginia	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country egypt	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the sports leage ncaa uses the venue lavell_edwards_stadium	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
red_wings is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
alexander held the position of tsar	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0