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
governor_s_council is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dilly_bread is a baked good	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
illinois_state_university is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
st___roch_cemetery is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
child_development_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
providence is the capital city of the state or province rhode_island	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
luis_scola has spouse miller002	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
roy is a person who graduated from the university state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
klm is a company headquartered in the city amsterdam	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ray was born in the city orleans	1116	12-sep-2018	94.2