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
roast_veal is a type of meat	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
indipop is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
leknes is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.9
sexual_assault_incident ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
car_parts_yesterday is a visualizable thing	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
english is the language of the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
ashdod is a city also known as jerusalem	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
anne_perry contributed to the creative work a_dangerous_mourning	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
shockers is a sports team that played in games	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
baseball is a sport played in the venue shea_stadium	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0