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
my_heart_will_go_on is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n03_13_2011 is a dataset used within the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
conspiracy_fraud ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
tree_work is a research project	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
international_cycling_classic_tour_of_elk_grove is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
orb_weaver is called spider	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
acura is a specific automobile maker dealer in los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
large_herds refers to more than one wildlife	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
obama is a person who was written about in associated_press	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6
flavio_briatore is the CEO of nissan	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8