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
opening_hours_of_the_salisbury_cathedral is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
blue_hill_arkansas is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
glendale_community_weekly is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
quadricellariidae is a mollusk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
immigration_fraud_charges ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
community_development is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2
european_states is a generalization of france_france	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
oregon_ducks is a sports team that won the stanley_cup	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
gt is a company also known as goodyear	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
him contributed to the creative work commandments	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0