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
prendere_decisioni is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
movable_partition_doors is something found in or on buildings	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
true_mirror is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
speed_boat_racing is a hobby	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
marion_lake is a trail	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bloomberg is a company headquartered in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jared and enoch are family members	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
vince_neil is a musician who is part of motley_crue	1113	15-aug-2018	99.6
sacred_music is an academic program at the university college	1113	15-aug-2018	99.2
chrysler makes the automobile sebring	1114	25-aug-2018	99.3