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
bmw_3_series_wagon is a model of automobile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n1989__ is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
minute_maid_juice is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	95.0
unthrivingness is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	97.8
one_piece_swimsuit is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
surfing is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
los_angeles_ca is a city that lies on the river columbia	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
n10001 is the zipcode for nueva_york	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
plain_dealer is a newspaper in the city cleveland	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
judah has wife tamar	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0