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
n9_29_pm is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
new_hope_bible_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
radio_drama is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
novigrad is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
cherokee_bear_zoo is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jessica has spouse honor	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
dexter_filkins works for york_times	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
martina_navratilova is an athlete who beat monica_seles	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
english is spoken in the city vancouver	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
steelers is a sports team also known as current_tennessee_titans	1113	15-aug-2018	98.4