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
bayonne_hotels is a park	1111	06-jul-2018	92.5
bahia_maimon is a geopolitical entity that is a location	1111	06-jul-2018	92.0
john_r__erickson_4_5_3_0_736en_fahrenheit_451 is a European person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sternocleidomastoid_and_trapezius is a muscle	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
cagles_mill_lake is a trail	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sony is a company in the economic sector of consumer_electronics	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ottawa_senators is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1947_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
henry is a U.S. politician who holds the office of governor	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
gotoh_museum is a museum in the city tokyo	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0