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_york_real_estate_journal is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n4_burner_electric_stove is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
gaetano_bellei is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
radio_drama is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
clarence_w__nelson is an astronaut	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bryan_singer directed the movie superman_returns	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
michigan_state is a sports team that plays the sport golf	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
scorpions is an arthropod as well as spiders also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
linda_hogan is a person also known as linda_marie_bollea	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
john_bonham is a person who died on the date n1980	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0