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
howard_university is a school	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
department_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dfci_ is a hospital	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
milwaukee_county_zoological_gardens is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
pot_roast_sandwich_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
viacom terminated the employment of sumner_redstone	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
bangkok is the capital city of the country thailand	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country hungary	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
coughlin coaches the team eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
china is a country also known as romania	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4