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
lexus_lx570 is a model of automobile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n14_39 is a term used by physicists	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
illustrators_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
merced_community_college is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
variable_computer is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
susan died in the location new_south_wales	1116	12-sep-2018	98.6
republican is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location georgia	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
west_virginia hired huggins	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
williams is a person who has attended the school college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
jankovic is an athlete who beat kuznetsova	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0