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
michigan_department_of_corrections is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
comment_am is software used by machine-learning scientists	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
whole_wheat_bisquick_pancakes is a baked good	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
taijutsu is a sport	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
i_see_my_beautiful is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the final score of the sports game finals was gamescore:n0_2	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
trafalgar_square is a park in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jerusalem is the capital city of the country israel	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
arunachal_pradesh is a state or province located in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
belichick coaches the team cleveland_browns	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4