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
revolutionary_communist_party is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
halifax_shopping_centre is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
slaughter_mountain is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
spuyten_duyvil_railroad_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
yoder_road is a highway	1111	06-jul-2018	93.5
spiders is a type of bugs	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sheraton_los_angeles_downtown_hotel is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
perry has been charged with murder	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
adnan_ghalib and britney_spears are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
bed is often found in bathroom_unit	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8