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
antimodernness is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	98.0
physical_healing is a physical action	1111	06-jul-2018	93.0
ford_fiesta_xr2i is a model of automobile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joseph_conrad is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
skip_wilson_field is a stadium or event venue	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
scuba_diving is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
gas_transit is a generalization of nuclear_missile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
conocophillips is a bank that has james_mulva as its CEO	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
nevada is a sate or province located in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
soccer is a sport played in the venue wembley_stadium	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0