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
zheng_jiayu is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dallas_county_tx is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
tarragon_hors_doeuvres_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
one_scandinavian_language is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
katharina_jahaan is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
newark_liberty is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
pitt has wife jennifer_aniston	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
kelly has been charged with murder	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
chicken is an animal that eats cranberry_sauce	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
annise_parker was born in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0