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
poker_tex is a board game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
music_location is a hobby	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
piedmont_oklahoma is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	92.3
herzliyah is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.6
cape_girardeau_hotels is a park	1111	06-jul-2018	90.8
salzburg is a city located in the country austria	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
joseph_m__tucci works for emc	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
samsung is a company also known as sharp_corporation	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
gruden coaches the team bay	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought lic	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0