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
new_christian_movement_dla_a_new_haiti is a political party	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
warming_farce is a physical action	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
turtles_cave is a cave	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
radio_stanice is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
ontario_junior_hockey_league is a sports league	1115	03-sep-2018	98.0
ospel is a person born on the date n1950	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ben_roethlisberger is an athlete who injured his/her shoulder	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the companies financial and herald compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
komo_tv is a TV station in the city seattle	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
aquarium_berlin is an aquarium in the city berlin	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0