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
khajuraho_airport is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
pork_loin_sirloin_chops is a type of meat	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
anchor_bay_entertainment is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	95.6
malaysian_star is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	95.6
pejepscot_maine is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
jamey_carroll is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
italian is a language used in the university rutgers_university	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
tim_lincecum is an athlete who led eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
dragonflies is an animal that is a kind of insects	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
scion is a company that has an office in the country usa	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0