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
links_links_all_links is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
thomas_kilmann_conflict_mode_instrument is a musical instrument	1111	06-jul-2018	96.0
los_angeles_university_cathedral is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
horseradish_mustard_vinaigrette is a condiment	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
nick_masset is a Mexican person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
baseball is a sport played in the venue metrodome	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
chicken is an animal that eats cutlet	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
artillery_shells is a type of weapon produced in israel	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kansas is the home city of the sports team rajasthan_royals	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
european_countries is a generalization of germany	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0