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
bob_mackie is a person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bartlesville_news is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
beauty_fashion___magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
que_hacemos is a currency	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
ottawa_senators is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the country usa uses the currency dollars	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
satan is the parent of eden	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
pope_john_paul_ii is a person who died on the date april_2005	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kasim_reed is the leader of the city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
xom_ is a company also known as exxonmobil001	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0