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
southern_ohio_college_fort_mitchell is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
ultra_violet_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	98.6
capital_city_weekly is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cheese_chicken_breast_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
parapsicologia is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	92.5
glenn_collins is a journalist that writes for the publication times	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
anderson is a person who graduated from the university state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country portugal	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kommersant_daily is a newspaper in the city moscow	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
fred_kendall is the parent of jason_kendall	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8