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
manuel_chaves is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
progressiivne_rock is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
i_m_talking_about_you is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	97.4
protein_kinase_c_theta is a protein	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
living_hope_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
stove is often found in kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
david_lynch directed the movie blue_velvet	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
sega is related to pc	1114	25-aug-2018	99.6
richard_wright wrote the book black_boy	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
guernsey_lake is a lake in the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0