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
the_oak_tree_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
crystal_bed is a household item	1111	06-jul-2018	91.6
dilly_bread is a baked good	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wwe_smackdown_vs__raw_2009 is a video game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ellenton is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	95.2
national is a company that has an office in the country panama	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
subaru makes the automobile subaru_legacy	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
catherine_filene_shouse got married in n1921	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mcdonalds hired jack_greenberg	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
forum is an attraction that will be fall in city victoria	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0