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
additional_award is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
commercial_finance_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
icvt is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
water_beaches can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
john_gatens is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.5
virgina is a sate or province located in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
woodall_mountain is a mountain in the state or province mississippi	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nagaland is a state or province located in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
diamondbacks is an organization also known as brewers	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
finding_needles_in_exponential_haystacks is part of math_colloquium	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0